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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 544 641
Rank change year-on-year -124 +97 -29
Permanent jobs citing YAML 121 144 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.29% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 1.70% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 81 80 133
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,250 £46,500
25th Percentile £53,250 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £71,250 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £97,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +6.91%

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 10,680 8,463 15,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.97% 16.87% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7,801 5,490 11,353
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -92 116 £62,500 -16.67% 33
UK excluding London -102 66 £60,000 +4.35% 25
London -67 52 £77,500 -3.13% 12
South East -26 38 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Work from Home -46 37 £58,250 -22.33% 19
North of England -47 18 £59,000 -21.33% 2
North East -54 11 £56,500 -24.92% 1
East Midlands -21 7 £67,500 - 1
Midlands -38 7 £67,500 +17.39% 7
North West -15 4 £65,000 - 1
Yorkshire -33 3 £82,500 +10.00%
South West -72 3 £45,000 - 4
Wales -62 2 £59,085 - 1
Scotland +2 1 - - 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 5 (4.13%) IIS
2 4 (3.31%) Apache
2 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) nginx
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 86 (71.07%) Azure
2 57 (47.11%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (33.06%) AWS
4 31 (25.62%) Azure Monitor
5 29 (23.97%) Azure Key Vault
5 29 (23.97%) GitHub
6 27 (22.31%) Serverless
7 25 (20.66%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (19.01%) Azure Service Bus
9 21 (17.36%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (14.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (10.74%) Azure Storage
12 12 (9.92%) Datadog
13 11 (9.09%) Amazon S3
13 11 (9.09%) IaaS
13 11 (9.09%) PaaS
14 10 (8.26%) Entra ID
15 9 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (7.44%) Azure AKS
16 8 (6.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.05%) Firewall
2 13 (10.74%) DMARC
3 4 (3.31%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (3.31%) SSH
4 3 (2.48%) DNS
4 3 (2.48%) Wireless
5 1 (0.83%) SSL
5 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.26%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.61%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.79%) Redis
6 6 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.31%) Power BI
7 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.48%) Metadata
8 3 (2.48%) Tableau
9 2 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (1.65%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.65%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.65%) Triplestore
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.83%) Looker
10 1 (0.83%) MySQL
10 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (34.71%) Git
2 22 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 18 (14.88%) GitLab
4 6 (4.96%) JIRA
5 5 (4.13%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.31%) Gradle
6 4 (3.31%) Maven
6 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.48%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.65%) MSI
8 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.83%) JMeter
9 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.83%) Selenium
9 1 (0.83%) Snyk
General
1 33 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.05%) Finance
3 13 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.61%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.13%) Aviation
5 5 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.31%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Legal
7 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.83%) Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (52.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (16.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 18 (14.88%) Lead
5 13 (10.74%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (10.74%) Senior
6 11 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Network Engineer
7 8 (6.61%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.61%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (6.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.61%) Telecoms Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Developer
8 7 (5.79%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Technical Leader
9 6 (4.96%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Lead Java Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Automation Specialist
10 5 (4.13%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (26.45%) JSON
2 22 (18.18%) Node.js
3 19 (15.70%) .NET
4 14 (11.57%) ARM Templates
5 13 (10.74%) OAuth
5 13 (10.74%) OAuth2
5 13 (10.74%) RESTful
5 13 (10.74%) Spring
5 13 (10.74%) Spring Boot
6 12 (9.92%) ADO
7 11 (9.09%) Jinja
8 10 (8.26%) REST
9 7 (5.79%) React
10 6 (4.96%) .NET Framework
10 6 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (4.96%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (4.13%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (4.13%) Loki
11 5 (4.13%) PySpark
11 5 (4.13%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.26%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.96%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.65%) Tandem
8 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.83%) IoT
8 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (35.54%) Linux
2 12 (9.92%) Windows
3 10 (8.26%) VMS
4 8 (6.61%) Unix
5 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (85.95%) DevOps
2 98 (80.99%) CI/CD
3 75 (61.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (33.88%) Containerisation
5 39 (32.23%) Microservices
6 36 (29.75%) Agile
6 36 (29.75%) Test Automation
7 28 (23.14%) Platform Engineering
8 27 (22.31%) Observability
9 25 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (19.01%) Analytics
11 20 (16.53%) AI
11 20 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (16.53%) Mentoring
12 16 (13.22%) API Management
13 15 (12.40%) Event-Driven
13 15 (12.40%) Technical Debt
14 14 (11.57%) Scrum
15 13 (10.74%) API Design
15 13 (10.74%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 72 (59.50%) Python
2 47 (38.84%) PowerShell
3 40 (33.06%) Bash
4 32 (26.45%) SQL
5 21 (17.36%) C#
6 18 (14.88%) Java
7 16 (13.22%) Bicep
8 13 (10.74%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.31%) Groovy
9 4 (3.31%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.65%) Perl
10 2 (1.65%) R
10 2 (1.65%) Ruby
10 2 (1.65%) Scala
10 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.83%) C++
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.79%) Degree
5 4 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.48%) CCNP
6 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.83%) CCNA
8 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.53%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.65%) GDPR
4 2 (1.65%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.65%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (27.27%) Docker
2 5 (4.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (53.72%) Terraform
2 47 (38.84%) Kubernetes
3 25 (20.66%) Ansible
4 15 (12.40%) Grafana
5 14 (11.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.31%) Packer
7 3 (2.48%) Scalr
8 2 (1.65%) Argo
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (21.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.74%) SendGrid
3 11 (9.09%) Cisco
4 8 (6.61%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.79%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (5.79%) F5
6 4 (3.31%) AppDynamics
6 4 (3.31%) IBM
6 4 (3.31%) Juniper
6 4 (3.31%) New Relic
6 4 (3.31%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.48%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.48%) Databricks
7 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.65%) IFS
8 2 (1.65%) Oracle
8 2 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.65%) Veracode
9 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.83%) Foundry