YAML
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for YAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited YAML over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 503 729 820
Rank change year-on-year +226 +91 -192
Permanent jobs citing YAML 240 365 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.71% 0.91% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 212 292 203
10th Percentile £52,750 £52,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £100,938 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £93,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% +4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

YAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,069 40,224 49,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 32.39% 38.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,019 24,402 31,736
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

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 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 16 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 5 December 2023. 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 +221 223 £82,500 +13.79% 51
London +231 138 £92,000 +8.24% 22
Work from Home +176 111 £87,500 +16.67% 47
UK excluding London +120 88 £75,000 +7.14% 36
South East +129 19 £90,000 +44.00% 11
Midlands +100 19 £60,000 -17.24% 4
South West +95 19 £75,000 +8.00% 4
North of England +71 16 £92,778 +32.54% 15
East Midlands +39 15 £60,000 -14.29%
East of England +132 8 £55,000 - 1
North West +114 8 £92,778 +33.59% 5
Yorkshire +53 8 £81,677 +16.68% 10
West Midlands +99 4 £110,000 +49.15% 4
Scotland +52 4 £92,778 +33.59% 1
Wales +18 2 £45,000 +12.50% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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 30 (12.50%) Apache
2 17 (7.08%) IIS
3 14 (5.83%) Confluence
4 12 (5.00%) nginx
5 11 (4.58%) Apache Spark
5 11 (4.58%) Jupyter
6 10 (4.17%) MS Exchange
6 10 (4.17%) WebSphere
7 6 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (2.50%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.42%) JBoss
8 1 (0.42%) Luigi
8 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.75%) AutoCAD
1 9 (3.75%) PTC Creo
1 9 (3.75%) SOLIDWORKS
2 4 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 199 (82.92%) Azure
2 116 (48.33%) Azure DevOps
3 74 (30.83%) AWS
4 51 (21.25%) PaaS
5 48 (20.00%) IaaS
6 43 (17.92%) Serverless
7 38 (15.83%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (13.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 26 (10.83%) Azure AKS
10 22 (9.17%) GCP
11 21 (8.75%) GitHub
12 18 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (7.08%) Amazon S3
14 16 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (6.25%) Entra ID
16 14 (5.83%) Azure API Management
16 14 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (5.42%) OpenShift
18 12 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.58%) DNS
1 23 (9.58%) NGFW
1 23 (9.58%) VPN
2 20 (8.33%) Firewall
3 15 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.58%) HTTP
4 11 (4.58%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (3.75%) Network Security
6 8 (3.33%) Internet
7 7 (2.92%) SMTP
8 5 (2.08%) HTTPS
8 5 (2.08%) Kerberos
8 5 (2.08%) NetScaler
9 4 (1.67%) FTP
9 4 (1.67%) WAN
10 3 (1.25%) DHCP
10 3 (1.25%) IPv6
10 3 (1.25%) SNMP
10 3 (1.25%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (7.92%) DynamoDB
4 16 (6.67%) Big Data
4 16 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (4.58%) Hadoop
6 11 (4.58%) Presto
7 10 (4.17%) MySQL
7 10 (4.17%) SAP HANA
8 9 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.08%) Power BI
11 5 (2.08%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.67%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 82 (34.17%) Git
2 57 (23.75%) Jenkins
3 21 (8.75%) JIRA
4 17 (7.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (5.83%) git-flow
6 13 (5.42%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (5.00%) Bitbucket
7 12 (5.00%) CircleCI
8 10 (4.17%) Artifactory
8 10 (4.17%) Chocolatey
8 10 (4.17%) GitLab
9 5 (2.08%) Serilog
9 5 (2.08%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.83%) Moq
11 2 (0.83%) Selenium
11 2 (0.83%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 76 (31.67%) Finance
2 26 (10.83%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.00%) Banking
3 24 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 18 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.58%) Retail
7 7 (2.92%) Law
8 5 (2.08%) Advertising
9 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.25%) Billing
10 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.83%) Automotive
11 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.83%) Police
12 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (21.25%) Architect
3 42 (17.50%) Lead
4 35 (14.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (14.17%) Cloud Architect
6 31 (12.92%) Citrix Architect
7 30 (12.50%) Azure Architect
7 30 (12.50%) Senior
8 27 (11.25%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (10.83%) Security Engineer
10 25 (10.42%) Developer
11 24 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 22 (9.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
13 21 (8.75%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 17 (7.08%) Data Engineer
15 16 (6.67%) Cloud Security Lead
15 16 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 16 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
16 13 (5.42%) Senior Developer
16 13 (5.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (40.00%) JSON
2 43 (17.92%) ARM Templates
3 37 (15.42%) .NET
4 23 (9.58%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 20 (8.33%) REST
6 16 (6.67%) XML
7 13 (5.42%) .NET Core
7 13 (5.42%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (5.00%) RESTful
9 11 (4.58%) ActiveMQ
9 11 (4.58%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (4.58%) HTML
9 11 (4.58%) React
10 10 (4.17%) HTML5
11 9 (3.75%) Swagger
11 9 (3.75%) Web Services
12 8 (3.33%) ASP.NET
12 8 (3.33%) WebSockets
13 6 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (21.25%) Public Cloud
2 26 (10.83%) Private Cloud
3 25 (10.42%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 15 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
6 14 (5.83%) Mobile App
7 13 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (3.75%) Management Information System
10 9 (3.75%) Operational Technology
11 8 (3.33%) Data Centre
12 7 (2.92%) Virtual Team
13 6 (2.50%) IoT
13 6 (2.50%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.67%) Clustering
14 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (1.25%) Housing Association
15 3 (1.25%) W3C
16 2 (0.83%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.33%) Linux
2 49 (20.42%) Windows
3 25 (10.42%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (2.50%) Android
5 6 (2.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.08%) Unix
7 1 (0.42%) CentOS
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (77.92%) DevOps
2 137 (57.08%) Agile
3 133 (55.42%) CI/CD
3 133 (55.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (25.42%) SDLC
5 44 (18.33%) Containerisation
6 42 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (17.50%) Scrum
7 39 (16.25%) Configuration Management
8 32 (13.33%) Kanban
8 32 (13.33%) Microservices
9 30 (12.50%) Cloud Security
10 29 (12.08%) Migration
11 28 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
12 25 (10.42%) Secrets Management
12 25 (10.42%) Software Engineering
13 24 (10.00%) DevSecOps
14 23 (9.58%) Network Design
14 23 (9.58%) Network Virtualisation
15 22 (9.17%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 162 (67.50%) PowerShell
2 120 (50.00%) Python
3 85 (35.42%) Bash
4 54 (22.50%) SQL
5 32 (13.33%) Shell Script
6 31 (12.92%) C#
7 22 (9.17%) JavaScript
8 21 (8.75%) Java
9 19 (7.92%) Bicep
10 10 (4.17%) Go
11 9 (3.75%) MATLAB
12 6 (2.50%) PHP
12 6 (2.50%) Ruby
13 5 (2.08%) C++
13 5 (2.08%) Scala
14 4 (1.67%) Groovy
15 3 (1.25%) Perl
15 3 (1.25%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
17 1 (0.42%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 39 (16.25%) Azure Certification
2 36 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.17%) AWS Certification
4 21 (8.75%) Degree
5 19 (7.92%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.58%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 10 (4.17%) MCSA
8 10 (4.17%) MCSE
9 8 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.33%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.42%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.17%) QA
2 6 (2.50%) NCSC
3 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.25%) SLA
5 2 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 52 (21.67%) Docker
2 33 (13.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (11.25%) Active Directory
4 26 (10.83%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 24 (10.00%) vSphere
6 4 (1.67%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.42%) Ceph
8 1 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.42%) Gluster
8 1 (0.42%) KVM
8 1 (0.42%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 152 (63.33%) Terraform
2 84 (35.00%) Ansible
3 60 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 23 (9.58%) SCCM
5 20 (8.33%) Istio
6 17 (7.08%) Packer
7 16 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (6.67%) Puppet
8 15 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 15 (6.25%) HAProxy
9 14 (5.83%) Grafana
10 13 (5.42%) Prometheus
11 12 (5.00%) Progress Chef
12 10 (4.17%) SCOM
13 8 (3.33%) Argo
14 4 (1.67%) Nagios
15 3 (1.25%) vCenter Server
16 2 (0.83%) Graphite
16 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (23.75%) Citrix
2 48 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 35 (14.58%) VMware
4 24 (10.00%) Google
5 13 (5.42%) Atlassian
6 12 (5.00%) Oracle
7 11 (4.58%) SAP
8 10 (4.17%) IBM
8 10 (4.17%) Red Hat
8 10 (4.17%) TOWER Software
9 9 (3.75%) MathWorks
9 9 (3.75%) PTC
10 7 (2.92%) Splunk
11 6 (2.50%) Apple
12 5 (2.08%) Salesforce
12 5 (2.08%) Wyse
13 4 (1.67%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.67%) Sonatype
14 2 (0.83%) Arista
14 2 (0.83%) Cisco