YAML Job Trends in the South West

YAML
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 200 207
Rank change year-on-year +31 +7 +102
Permanent jobs citing YAML 8 15 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.22% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 1.46% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 13
10th Percentile - £47,750 £52,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £71,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £80,000 £92,778
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% -13.77% +54.63%
75th Percentile £47,500 £87,500 £100,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £74,875 £72,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.28% -14.71% +13.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 419 1,024 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.45% 16.05% 25.58%
Number of salaries quoted 312 607 906
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,625 £86,250 £83,903
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 South West

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

YAML job vacancy trend in the South West

YAML
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing YAML

YAML
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the South West region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Somerset - 7 £45,000 - 2
Devon +7 1 - -
YAML
England

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
1 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (87.50%) GitHub
1 7 (87.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Keras
1 1 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (12.50%) Metaflow
1 1 (12.50%) NumPy
1 1 (12.50%) Pandas
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) AI
3 1 (12.50%) Data Science
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata Management
3 1 (12.50%) MLOps
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) OOP
3 1 (12.50%) OWASP
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Kubeflow
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks