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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 695 664
Rank change year-on-year +77 -31 +283
Permanent jobs citing YAML 91 220 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 1.03% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 59 127 167
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £62,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +8.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,485 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,956
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.13% -2.29%

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 9,499 21,396 29,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.14% 20.72% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 15,919 18,040
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,810
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 13 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 30 May 2025. 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 +48 82 £70,500 -6.00% 202
UK excluding London +92 49 £65,000 -7.14% 200
London +84 32 £71,500 -7.44% 31
Work from Home +27 31 £65,000 -16.13% 111
South East +92 29 £70,500 +0.71% 69
Midlands +59 9 £57,500 -33.51% 33
East of England +52 7 £50,000 -10.31% 27
West Midlands +35 5 £57,500 -33.51% 16
East Midlands +42 4 - - 15
North of England +23 3 £75,500 +11.85% 40
Yorkshire +41 2 - - 19
Scotland +106 1 £65,000 +13.04% 11
North East +47 1 £75,500 +7.86% 6

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 7 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.49%) Apache
3 3 (3.30%) IIS
3 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.20%) CMS
5 1 (1.10%) Confluence
5 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.10%) Sitefinity
Cloud Services
1 66 (72.53%) Azure
2 50 (54.95%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (28.57%) PaaS
4 24 (26.37%) GitHub
5 20 (21.98%) AWS
6 11 (12.09%) Entra ID
7 8 (8.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (8.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (7.69%) SaaS
8 7 (7.69%) Serverless
9 6 (6.59%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (5.49%) IaaS
10 5 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.30%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.78%) DNS
2 15 (16.48%) Firewall
3 11 (12.09%) VPN
4 7 (7.69%) SSL
5 6 (6.59%) BGP
5 6 (6.59%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.40%) IPsec
6 4 (4.40%) OSPF
6 4 (4.40%) SD-WAN
6 4 (4.40%) VoIP
6 4 (4.40%) WAN
7 3 (3.30%) DHCP
7 3 (3.30%) HTTP
7 3 (3.30%) IOS XR
7 3 (3.30%) SAN
7 3 (3.30%) SMTP
8 2 (2.20%) Broadband
9 1 (1.10%) Internet
9 1 (1.10%) MPLS
9 1 (1.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.69%) Big Data
3 5 (5.49%) Delta Lake
4 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.30%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.10%) Metadata
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) Power BI
6 1 (1.10%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (19.78%) Git
2 9 (9.89%) JIRA
3 6 (6.59%) Robot Framework
4 5 (5.49%) GitLab
4 5 (5.49%) JMeter
4 5 (5.49%) Locust
4 5 (5.49%) Postman
4 5 (5.49%) Selenium
5 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.20%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.10%) Maven
7 1 (1.10%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.10%) Snyk
7 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (38.46%) Finance
2 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
5 4 (4.40%) Advertising
6 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.20%) Law
6 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.10%) Automotive
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Marketing
7 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Senior
2 25 (27.47%) Lead
3 20 (21.98%) Security Engineer
4 14 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Developer
7 8 (8.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Network Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Senior Network Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Test Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Applications Support
11 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) .NET
2 8 (8.79%) JSON
3 7 (7.69%) SOAP
4 6 (6.59%) RESTful
4 6 (6.59%) Vue
5 5 (5.49%) pytest
5 5 (5.49%) REST
6 4 (4.40%) Blazor
6 4 (4.40%) Web Services
7 3 (3.30%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.30%) CSS
7 3 (3.30%) HTML
7 3 (3.30%) Jinja
7 3 (3.30%) PySpark
8 2 (2.20%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.20%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.20%) React
8 2 (2.20%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (2.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.68%) Security Posture
2 5 (5.49%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.40%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.30%) PKI
5 2 (2.20%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.20%) Clustering
5 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.10%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Windows
3 2 (2.20%) Unix
4 1 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.10%) CentOS
4 1 (1.10%) Debian
4 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (73.63%) DevOps
2 65 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 49 (53.85%) Agile
4 33 (36.26%) Test Automation
5 30 (32.97%) DevSecOps
6 29 (31.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (27.47%) Mentoring
7 25 (27.47%) OWASP
8 24 (26.37%) Application Security
8 24 (26.37%) Security Testing
9 23 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (24.18%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (20.88%) Product Strategy
11 19 (20.88%) SDLC
11 19 (20.88%) Threat Modelling
11 19 (20.88%) Vulnerability Management
12 18 (19.78%) Coaching
13 17 (18.68%) Backlog Management
13 17 (18.68%) Computer Science
13 17 (18.68%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (52.75%) PowerShell
2 37 (40.66%) Python
3 30 (32.97%) SQL
4 13 (14.29%) C#
5 11 (12.09%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.99%) Bicep
7 8 (8.79%) Ruby
8 4 (4.40%) Bash
8 4 (4.40%) VB.NET
9 3 (3.30%) Java
9 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.20%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (1.10%) JCL
11 1 (1.10%) PHP
11 1 (1.10%) R
11 1 (1.10%) REXX
11 1 (1.10%) Scala
11 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) Computer Science Degree
1 17 (18.68%) Degree
1 17 (18.68%) Master's Degree
2 16 (17.58%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.20%) CCNP
6 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.10%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (20.88%) NCSC
1 19 (20.88%) NIST
2 7 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (16.48%) Docker
2 13 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.10%) NFS
6 1 (1.10%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 23 (25.27%) Terraform
2 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes
3 17 (18.68%) Ansible
4 5 (5.49%) Grafana
4 5 (5.49%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.20%) SCCM
5 2 (2.20%) SCOM
6 1 (1.10%) Nessus
6 1 (1.10%) Puppet
6 1 (1.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 41 (45.05%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.78%) Databricks
3 9 (9.89%) VMware
4 7 (7.69%) Cisco
5 6 (6.59%) Atlassian
6 5 (5.49%) Splunk
7 4 (4.40%) DevExpress
7 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.30%) IBM
8 3 (3.30%) Juniper
8 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.20%) Aruba
9 2 (2.20%) Commvault
9 2 (2.20%) Darktrace
9 2 (2.20%) Nokia
9 2 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 2 (2.20%) Snow
10 1 (1.10%) Brocade
10 1 (1.10%) Dell
10 1 (1.10%) Sophos