YAML Job Trends

YAML
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 599 499
Rank change year-on-year +62 -100 +184
Permanent jobs citing YAML 114 112 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.63% 0.95% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 75 76 191
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,609 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £88,125 £85,313 £100,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £93,125 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -21.43% -0.82% +1.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,011 11,847 12,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 21.45% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,218 7,037 10,585
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

YAML job vacancy trend in the UK

YAML
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing YAML

YAML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing YAML over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 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
England +79 104 £70,000 -6.67% 39
London +53 63 £80,000 -4.48% 15
UK excluding London +42 48 £55,000 -21.43% 34
Work from Home +70 44 £60,750 -24.06% 17
South West +8 11 £45,000 -41.94% 2
Midlands +28 10 £66,500 +18.22% 9
South East +3 10 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Scotland +10 8 - - 6
West Midlands +22 7 £58,750 +4.44% 6
East of England +21 6 £40,000 -20.00%
North of England +23 3 £75,000 -6.25% 6
East Midlands - 3 £67,500 - 3
North East - 2 £75,000 -
North West - 1 £70,000 - 2

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (7.89%) IIS
2 4 (3.51%) CMS
3 2 (1.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 93 (81.58%) Azure
2 78 (68.42%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (42.98%) GitHub
4 25 (21.93%) PaaS
5 23 (20.18%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (13.16%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (9.65%) AWS
8 10 (8.77%) Azure AKS
8 10 (8.77%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (7.02%) dbt
9 8 (7.02%) Snowflake
10 7 (6.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (6.14%) Azure Functions
10 7 (6.14%) Datadog
10 7 (6.14%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.14%) Power Platform
10 7 (6.14%) Serverless
11 5 (4.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (4.39%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.02%) Firewall
2 7 (6.14%) Fibre Channel
2 7 (6.14%) VPN
2 7 (6.14%) WAN
3 4 (3.51%) Network Security
4 3 (2.63%) SSL
5 2 (1.75%) DHCP
5 2 (1.75%) DNS
6 1 (0.88%) HTTP
6 1 (0.88%) SAN
6 1 (0.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.63%) GIS
5 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.63%) Power BI
6 2 (1.75%) Looker
6 2 (1.75%) MySQL
6 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 22 (19.30%) Git
2 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.39%) Storybook
4 4 (3.51%) GitLab
4 4 (3.51%) JIRA
4 4 (3.51%) MSTest
4 4 (3.51%) NUnit
5 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.75%) Gradle
5 2 (1.75%) Maven
5 2 (1.75%) Moq
5 2 (1.75%) NSubstitute
5 2 (1.75%) Vite
6 1 (0.88%) Appium
6 1 (0.88%) Postman
6 1 (0.88%) Selenium
6 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (46.49%) Finance
2 13 (11.40%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.65%) Law
4 7 (6.14%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.51%) Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Retail
8 2 (1.75%) Legal
8 2 (1.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (21.93%) Lead
2 21 (18.42%) Senior
3 19 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 18 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (14.04%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (10.53%) Developer
7 9 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) IBM Storage Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.39%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) Operations Support Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) Platform Support Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.42%) .NET
2 12 (10.53%) JSON
3 8 (7.02%) .NET Framework
3 8 (7.02%) React
3 8 (7.02%) Vue
4 7 (6.14%) ADO
4 7 (6.14%) OAuth
4 7 (6.14%) SAML
5 6 (5.26%) REST
5 6 (5.26%) Web Services
6 5 (4.39%) .NET Core
6 5 (4.39%) Jest
6 5 (4.39%) Next.js
7 4 (3.51%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.51%) ARM Templates
7 4 (3.51%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.63%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.54%) Security Posture
2 19 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.02%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.14%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.63%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.88%) CMDB
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.88%) PKI
9 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.40%) Linux
2 10 (8.77%) Windows
3 7 (6.14%) VMS
3 7 (6.14%) zOS
4 5 (4.39%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.75%) Android
5 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (78.07%) CI/CD
1 89 (78.07%) DevOps
2 54 (47.37%) Agile
3 46 (40.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (30.70%) Test Automation
5 32 (28.07%) SDLC
6 31 (27.19%) Application Security
6 31 (27.19%) DevSecOps
6 31 (27.19%) Mentoring
7 27 (23.68%) OWASP
7 27 (23.68%) Platform Engineering
8 26 (22.81%) Coaching
8 26 (22.81%) Security Testing
8 26 (22.81%) Threat Modelling
9 24 (21.05%) Product Strategy
10 23 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (18.42%) Containerisation
11 21 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (17.54%) Computer Science
13 19 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (53.51%) PowerShell
2 37 (32.46%) Python
3 27 (23.68%) SQL
4 21 (18.42%) C#
5 20 (17.54%) Bicep
6 13 (11.40%) Bash
7 11 (9.65%) JavaScript
8 7 (6.14%) JCL
8 7 (6.14%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (6.14%) REXX
8 7 (6.14%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.26%) VB.NET
10 4 (3.51%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.63%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.75%) Go
12 2 (1.75%) PHP
12 2 (1.75%) Ruby
12 2 (1.75%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.88%) Korn
13 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (19.30%) Degree
2 20 (17.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (14.91%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.51%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.75%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (29.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (23.68%) NCSC
2 27 (23.68%) NIST
3 11 (9.65%) Accessibility
3 11 (9.65%) QA
4 7 (6.14%) GDPR
4 7 (6.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (22.81%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.14%) Time Sharing Option
2 7 (6.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) iptables
Systems Management
1 34 (29.82%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.32%) Terraform
3 22 (19.30%) Ansible
4 6 (5.26%) Grafana
5 4 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.75%) Argo
6 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.88%) Nessus
7 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) IBM
3 7 (6.14%) Broadcom
3 7 (6.14%) Dell
3 7 (6.14%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.14%) Palo Alto
3 7 (6.14%) Zscaler
4 6 (5.26%) DevExpress
5 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.63%) Splunk
7 1 (0.88%) Arista
7 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) VMware
7 1 (0.88%) webMethods