YAML Job Trends in the UK excluding London

YAML
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 490 634
Rank change year-on-year -73 +144 -41
Permanent jobs citing YAML 68 71 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 1.38% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 58 25 90
10th Percentile £46,099 £40,000 £41,700
25th Percentile £51,750 £42,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% -13.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £69,250 £77,500 £86,485
90th Percentile £71,250 £86,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £64,000 £72,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year -11.72% -1.36% -2.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,104 5,147 13,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 15.23% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,926 3,265 9,851
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.17%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing YAML relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

YAML job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

YAML
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing YAML

YAML
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing YAML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for YAML in the UK excluding London

YAML
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. 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
South East -14 35 £62,500 -11.35% 3
North of England -20 18 £59,000 -21.59% 3
Midlands -36 12 £66,500 +0.38% 4
North East -43 10 £57,750 -23.51% 2
East Midlands -30 8 £67,500 - 1
North West -12 5 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands -25 4 £66,500 +0.38% 3
Yorkshire -37 3 £82,500 +10.00%
South West -60 3 £45,000 - 3
Wales -47 2 £59,085 -
Scotland +8 1 - - 2
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (11.76%) IIS
2 2 (2.94%) CMS
2 2 (2.94%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (2.94%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (69.12%) Azure
2 40 (58.82%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (35.29%) AWS
4 11 (16.18%) Serverless
5 10 (14.71%) OpenShift
6 9 (13.24%) Amazon S3
6 9 (13.24%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (11.76%) Azure AKS
7 8 (11.76%) npm
7 8 (11.76%) NuGet
7 8 (11.76%) SonarCloud
8 7 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (10.29%) Datadog
8 7 (10.29%) GitHub
9 6 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (7.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (7.35%) Apigee
10 5 (7.35%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.71%) Firewall
2 5 (7.35%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.88%) Redis
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.94%) MySQL
5 2 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (38.24%) Git
2 20 (29.41%) GitLab
3 6 (8.82%) SonarQube
4 5 (7.35%) Cucumber
4 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.35%) JIRA
5 3 (4.41%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.94%) MSI
6 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.94%) Vite
7 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.47%) JMeter
7 1 (1.47%) Maven
7 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.47%) Selenium
7 1 (1.47%) Snyk
General
1 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Finance
3 10 (14.71%) Telecoms
4 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Aviation
7 3 (4.41%) Legal
8 2 (2.94%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 35 (51.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (16.18%) Senior
3 10 (14.71%) Automation Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Network Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Senior DevOps
3 10 (14.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Telecoms Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Developer
6 6 (8.82%) Automation Specialist
6 6 (8.82%) Network Specialist
6 6 (8.82%) Telecoms Specialist
7 3 (4.41%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (2.94%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
8 2 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.41%) .NET
2 19 (27.94%) JSON
3 12 (17.65%) REST
4 10 (14.71%) Jinja
4 10 (14.71%) Node.js
5 8 (11.76%) ARM Templates
5 8 (11.76%) React
6 7 (10.29%) .NET Framework
6 7 (10.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET
7 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (7.35%) Loki
8 5 (7.35%) XML
8 5 (7.35%) YANG
9 4 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (5.88%) HTML
9 4 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (4.41%) .NET Core
11 2 (2.94%) Jest
11 2 (2.94%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
1 6 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.35%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (35.29%) Linux
2 8 (11.76%) Windows
3 5 (7.35%) Unix
4 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (80.88%) DevOps
2 53 (77.94%) CI/CD
3 47 (69.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (41.18%) Agile
5 25 (36.76%) Platform Engineering
6 24 (35.29%) Observability
7 22 (32.35%) Microservices
8 20 (29.41%) Containerisation
9 18 (26.47%) API Management
9 18 (26.47%) Test Automation
10 14 (20.59%) AI
10 14 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (19.12%) DevSecOps
12 12 (17.65%) Scrum
13 10 (14.71%) Migration
13 10 (14.71%) Task Automation
14 9 (13.24%) Secrets Management
15 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
15 8 (11.76%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 43 (63.24%) Python
2 35 (51.47%) Bash
3 31 (45.59%) PowerShell
4 22 (32.35%) C#
5 14 (20.59%) SQL
6 13 (19.12%) Bicep
7 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
8 6 (8.82%) Java
9 5 (7.35%) Groovy
10 2 (2.94%) Perl
10 2 (2.94%) PHP
10 2 (2.94%) Ruby
10 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) GDPR
3 2 (2.94%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.94%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (32.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (64.71%) Terraform
2 36 (52.94%) Kubernetes
3 13 (19.12%) Ansible
4 9 (13.24%) Grafana
5 7 (10.29%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.88%) Packer
7 3 (4.41%) Scalr
8 2 (2.94%) Argo
9 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.71%) Cisco
2 10 (14.71%) Red Hat
3 8 (11.76%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (7.35%) F5
4 5 (7.35%) Juniper
4 5 (7.35%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.88%) AppDynamics
5 4 (5.88%) IBM
6 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.47%) Sonatype
8 1 (1.47%) Veracode