YAML
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring YAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited YAML over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 620 484 824
Rank change year-on-year -136 +340 +9
Permanent jobs citing YAML 159 289 349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.49% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 1.81% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 115 208 274
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £64,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £114,125 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +16.67%

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 14,339 15,963 49,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.95% 26.85% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,546 12,331 25,735
10th Percentile £39,070 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,603 £50,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +3.14% +11.50%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing YAML.

Salary trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing YAML over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 2024. 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 -128 148 £72,246 -15.01% 28
UK excluding London -58 101 £70,000 +7.69% 16
Work from Home -5 74 £75,000 -15.49% 65
London -82 56 £80,000 -13.04% 16
South East +10 44 £70,000 -22.22% 6
South West -8 15 £80,000 -13.77% 2
North of England -43 14 £80,000 -13.77% 1
Yorkshire +28 12 £80,000 -13.77% 1
Scotland -10 10 £80,000 -13.77% 4
East of England -40 9 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Midlands -42 9 £37,500 -37.50% 1
East Midlands -39 5 £37,500 -37.50%
West Midlands -33 4 - - 1
North East - 2 £61,750 -

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (8.18%) nginx
2 12 (7.55%) Apache
2 12 (7.55%) Apache Spark
2 12 (7.55%) Jupyter
3 5 (3.14%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (77.99%) Azure
2 79 (49.69%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (19.50%) Entra ID
4 30 (18.87%) AWS
5 27 (16.98%) Azure Logic Apps
6 25 (15.72%) Azure Event Grid
7 24 (15.09%) Azure Storage
8 14 (8.81%) IaaS
8 14 (8.81%) PaaS
9 13 (8.18%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (7.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 12 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (7.55%) MinIO
10 12 (7.55%) OpenShift
10 12 (7.55%) SaaS
11 11 (6.92%) Amazon S3
12 10 (6.29%) Serverless
13 9 (5.66%) GitHub
14 7 (4.40%) Azure Functions
14 7 (4.40%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.06%) DNS
2 9 (5.66%) Firewall
3 7 (4.40%) Wireless
4 6 (3.77%) HTTP
4 6 (3.77%) VPN
4 6 (3.77%) WAN
5 5 (3.14%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.52%) LAN
7 3 (1.89%) BGP
7 3 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.89%) EIGRP
7 3 (1.89%) FCoE
7 3 (1.89%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.89%) SSL
7 3 (1.89%) VoIP
8 2 (1.26%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.95%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.55%) Big Data
2 12 (7.55%) Hadoop
2 12 (7.55%) Presto
3 11 (6.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.52%) MySQL
5 4 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.89%) Data Vault
6 3 (1.89%) OLAP
6 3 (1.89%) OLAP Cube
6 3 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.63%) HDInsight
8 1 (0.63%) Looker
8 1 (0.63%) Power BI
8 1 (0.63%) QlikView
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (40.25%) Git
2 21 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.18%) Postman
3 13 (8.18%) Visual Studio
4 12 (7.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (5.03%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.52%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.52%) Maven
8 3 (1.89%) GitLab
8 3 (1.89%) Gradle
8 3 (1.89%) JIRA
8 3 (1.89%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.26%) Katalon Studio
General
1 67 (42.14%) Finance
2 35 (22.01%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.14%) Financial Institution
4 5 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.14%) Law
5 4 (2.52%) Banking
5 4 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (2.52%) Retail Banking
6 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.26%) Advertising
7 2 (1.26%) Automotive
7 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.63%) Electronics
8 1 (0.63%) Marketing
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (23.27%) Developer
2 25 (15.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (15.09%) Automation Engineer
3 24 (15.09%) Azure Engineer
4 21 (13.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 20 (12.58%) Cloud Developer
6 16 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.18%) Lead
7 13 (8.18%) Senior
8 12 (7.55%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 10 (6.29%) .NET Developer
9 10 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.29%) Senior Developer
10 9 (5.66%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.66%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 8 (5.03%) Azure Developer
11 8 (5.03%) C# Developer
12 7 (4.40%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.40%) Big Data Engineer
12 7 (4.40%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (23.90%) .NET
2 27 (16.98%) AngularJS
3 24 (15.09%) ARM Templates
4 21 (13.21%) REST
5 19 (11.95%) ASP.NET
6 16 (10.06%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (9.43%) JSON
8 14 (8.81%) Swagger
9 13 (8.18%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (8.18%) SOAP
10 12 (7.55%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (7.55%) Apache NiFi
10 12 (7.55%) CSS
10 12 (7.55%) React
11 11 (6.92%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (6.29%) HTML
13 9 (5.66%) RESTful
14 8 (5.03%) Node.js
14 8 (5.03%) XML
15 7 (4.40%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (3.77%) Low-Code
2 6 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.52%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.89%) Housing Association
4 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.26%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.13%) Windows
2 31 (19.50%) Linux
3 17 (10.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.14%) VMS
7 3 (1.89%) Unix
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.63%) CentOS
8 1 (0.63%) Debian
8 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (83.02%) DevOps
2 116 (72.96%) CI/CD
3 55 (34.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (30.19%) Agile
5 33 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (16.98%) Containerisation
7 24 (15.09%) Design Patterns
7 24 (15.09%) Task Automation
8 23 (14.47%) TDD
9 21 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (12.58%) Incident Response
10 20 (12.58%) Threat Detection
11 17 (10.69%) API Development
11 17 (10.69%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (10.69%) Observability
12 16 (10.06%) Cloud Security
12 16 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (9.43%) OWASP
14 14 (8.81%) SOLID
15 13 (8.18%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 66 (41.51%) PowerShell
2 48 (30.19%) C#
3 39 (24.53%) Python
4 30 (18.87%) SQL
5 27 (16.98%) Bicep
6 24 (15.09%) Kusto Query Language
7 20 (12.58%) Bash
8 16 (10.06%) Shell Script
9 10 (6.29%) JavaScript
10 8 (5.03%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.03%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.14%) PHP
12 4 (2.52%) Java
13 2 (1.26%) AWK
13 2 (1.26%) F#
13 2 (1.26%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.63%) C
14 1 (0.63%) C++
14 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.18%) Azure Certification
3 12 (7.55%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.66%) Degree
4 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.89%) CCNA
6 3 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.14%) ISO 9001
1 5 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (28.30%) Active Directory
2 24 (15.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 23 (14.47%) Docker
4 22 (13.84%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 80 (50.31%) Terraform
2 41 (25.79%) Ansible
3 23 (14.47%) Kubernetes
4 18 (11.32%) Prometheus
5 13 (8.18%) Grafana
6 12 (7.55%) HAProxy
7 6 (3.77%) Packer
7 6 (3.77%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (3.14%) Nagios
8 5 (3.14%) Puppet
9 2 (1.26%) Salt
10 1 (0.63%) Nessus
10 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.55%) Cisco
3 11 (6.92%) VMware
4 7 (4.40%) Commvault
4 7 (4.40%) Google
5 6 (3.77%) HP
6 5 (3.14%) Nimble Storage
7 4 (2.52%) Meraki
7 4 (2.52%) Splunk
8 3 (1.89%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.89%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.26%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.26%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.26%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.26%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.63%) Citrix
10 1 (0.63%) Databricks
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle
10 1 (0.63%) SAP
10 1 (0.63%) Sophos