YAML Job Trends in the North West

YAML
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 - 193
Rank change year-on-year - - +115
Permanent jobs citing YAML 3 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.062% - 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% - 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £54,850
25th Percentile £67,500 - £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £92,778
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.73%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £96,539
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,246 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% -15.01% +13.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

YAML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 866 1,202 1,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.86% 17.37% 26.41%
Number of salaries quoted 410 715 796
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,025 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing YAML relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

YAML job vacancy trend in the North West

YAML
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing YAML

YAML
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 2 £70,000 - 6
Merseyside - 1 - -
YAML
England

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
1 2 (66.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Keras
1 2 (66.67%) Lambda Expressions
1 2 (66.67%) Metaflow
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
1 2 (66.67%) MLOps
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) OOP
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Kubeflow
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk