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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 674 662 937
Rank change year-on-year -12 +275 -138
Permanent jobs citing YAML 225 322 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 1.06% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 134 177 217
10th Percentile £48,900 £45,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £62,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -0.79% +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £92,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £65,478 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.79% -3.00% +22.73%

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 21,036 30,236 65,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.24% 30.13% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 15,734 18,665 30,089
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 17 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 14 May 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 -1 201 £75,000 +8.00% 30
UK excluding London -59 151 £70,576 +7.79% 19
Work from Home +58 126 £77,500 +11.60% 17
London +86 68 £77,500 -3.13% 8
Midlands +4 37 £86,485 +57.25% 2
South West -4 35 £80,000 +15.20% 1
North of England -25 34 £67,500 +2.34% 5
West Midlands +7 29 £110,000 +100.00% 2
Yorkshire +38 23 £67,500 +8.00% 3
South East +6 22 £70,000 -17.65% 9
Scotland -60 11 £35,000 -49.60% 1
North West -6 10 - - 1
East Midlands -19 8 £57,500 +4.55%
Northern Ireland +30 5 - -
Wales +13 5 - -
East of England +4 2 £55,750 -34.41% 1
North East - 1 £70,000 - 1

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 75 (33.33%) Apache
2 21 (9.33%) nginx
3 18 (8.00%) Apache Spark
3 18 (8.00%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.89%) Confluence
4 2 (0.89%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.44%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 120 (53.33%) Azure
2 84 (37.33%) Amazon S3
3 69 (30.67%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (14.67%) PaaS
5 23 (10.22%) IaaS
6 22 (9.78%) OpenShift
7 19 (8.44%) AWS
7 19 (8.44%) Entra ID
8 18 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (8.00%) MinIO
9 16 (7.11%) Azure API Management
10 13 (5.78%) Azure AKS
10 13 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (4.89%) GCP
12 10 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (4.44%) GitHub
12 10 (4.44%) Serverless
13 9 (4.00%) Azure App Service
14 8 (3.56%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 80 (35.56%) VPN
2 78 (34.67%) Firewall
3 66 (29.33%) Internet
4 64 (28.44%) SNMP
5 54 (24.00%) IPsec
6 33 (14.67%) DNS
7 11 (4.89%) BGP
7 11 (4.89%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (4.89%) MPLS
7 11 (4.89%) NGFW
7 11 (4.89%) TCP/IP
8 10 (4.44%) tcpdump
9 9 (4.00%) WAN
10 7 (3.11%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.22%) Network Security
12 3 (1.33%) HTTP
12 3 (1.33%) SSL
13 2 (0.89%) LAN
13 2 (0.89%) Wireless
14 1 (0.44%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 69 (30.67%) Elasticsearch
3 43 (19.11%) SQL Server
4 21 (9.33%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.00%) Big Data
5 18 (8.00%) Hadoop
5 18 (8.00%) MySQL
5 18 (8.00%) Presto
6 11 (4.89%) SQLite
7 8 (3.56%) Power BI
8 7 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.67%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.78%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.78%) HDInsight
10 4 (1.78%) Looker
10 4 (1.78%) QlikView
10 4 (1.78%) Tableau
11 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (18.22%) Git
2 33 (14.67%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.33%) GitLab
4 19 (8.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (5.78%) JIRA
6 11 (4.89%) Artifactory
7 7 (3.11%) Katalon Studio
7 7 (3.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.89%) Gradle
8 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.44%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (33.78%) Finance
2 49 (21.78%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 16 (7.11%) Manufacturing
5 12 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.56%) Marketing
8 7 (3.11%) Banking
8 7 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.11%) Police
9 6 (2.67%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.78%) Electronics
11 3 (1.33%) German Language
11 3 (1.33%) Law
11 3 (1.33%) Retail
12 2 (0.89%) Automotive
12 2 (0.89%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 60 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (24.00%) Consultant
2 54 (24.00%) NetApp Consultant
3 38 (16.89%) Senior
4 36 (16.00%) Architect
5 32 (14.22%) Developer
6 30 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (8.00%) Big Data Engineer
7 18 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 17 (7.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.78%) Citrix Architect
9 13 (5.78%) Lead
10 12 (5.33%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (5.33%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.89%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (4.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
11 11 (4.89%) DevOps Architect
12 10 (4.44%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (4.44%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (32.44%) RabbitMQ
2 49 (21.78%) JSON
3 44 (19.56%) .NET
4 30 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (11.56%) ARM Templates
5 26 (11.56%) XML
6 25 (11.11%) .NET Core
6 25 (11.11%) ASP.NET
7 24 (10.67%) Entity Framework
7 24 (10.67%) HTML
8 22 (9.78%) RESTful
9 21 (9.33%) .NET Framework
10 18 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (8.00%) Apache NiFi
10 18 (8.00%) React
10 18 (8.00%) REST
11 17 (7.56%) Blazor
12 13 (5.78%) ASP.NET MVC
13 12 (5.33%) Node.js
14 11 (4.89%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.44%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (6.22%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.89%) Private Cloud
6 10 (4.44%) Clustering
7 9 (4.00%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.11%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (3.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (3.11%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.44%) Online Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 112 (49.78%) Linux
2 86 (38.22%) Windows
3 54 (24.00%) Data ONTAP
4 14 (6.22%) Windows Server
5 12 (5.33%) Unix
6 11 (4.89%) CentOS
7 4 (1.78%) VMS
8 3 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (63.56%) DevOps
2 97 (43.11%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (41.78%) CI/CD
4 90 (40.00%) Agile
5 84 (37.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (27.56%) Containerisation
7 60 (26.67%) Project Management
8 56 (24.89%) Infrastructure Management
9 55 (24.44%) Storage Management
10 54 (24.00%) Actionable Insight
10 54 (24.00%) Project Planning
10 54 (24.00%) Release Management
11 47 (20.89%) Scrum
12 41 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (12.44%) Roadmaps
14 25 (11.11%) Microservices
15 24 (10.67%) Observability
16 22 (9.78%) Data Engineering
16 22 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
17 21 (9.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 120 (53.33%) Python
2 69 (30.67%) PowerShell
3 59 (26.22%) SQL
4 55 (24.44%) C#
5 37 (16.44%) Bash
6 23 (10.22%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.89%) Shell Script
8 19 (8.44%) T-SQL
9 13 (5.78%) Bicep
10 11 (4.89%) Perl
10 11 (4.89%) PHP
10 11 (4.89%) XAML
11 4 (1.78%) Java
11 4 (1.78%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.78%) VB
12 3 (1.33%) Ruby
13 2 (0.89%) AWK
13 2 (0.89%) C++
13 2 (0.89%) Gremlin
13 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (3.56%) Degree
4 5 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.78%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) CISSP
7 1 (0.44%) MCSA
7 1 (0.44%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.67%) QA
2 4 (1.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (1.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 118 (52.44%) Docker
2 66 (29.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.33%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (7.11%) Active Directory
5 12 (5.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (4.89%) vSphere
7 1 (0.44%) NFS
7 1 (0.44%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (53.78%) Kubernetes
2 91 (40.44%) Ansible
3 84 (37.33%) Terraform
4 72 (32.00%) Prometheus
5 64 (28.44%) vCenter Server
6 32 (14.22%) Grafana
7 28 (12.44%) HAProxy
8 15 (6.67%) Puppet
9 10 (4.44%) Graphite
9 10 (4.44%) Nagios
10 7 (3.11%) Packer
11 5 (2.22%) Istio
12 4 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.33%) Kibana
13 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.44%) logstash
15 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.44%) Salt
Vendors
1 67 (29.78%) VMware
2 57 (25.33%) Red Hat
3 54 (24.00%) NetApp
3 54 (24.00%) Palo Alto
3 54 (24.00%) SolidFire
4 37 (16.44%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.78%) Cisco
5 13 (5.78%) Citrix
6 7 (3.11%) DevExpress
7 6 (2.67%) Oracle
7 6 (2.67%) Twitter
8 5 (2.22%) SAP
9 4 (1.78%) Databricks
10 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.89%) IBM
10 2 (0.89%) Meraki
10 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.89%) Software AG
10 2 (0.89%) webMethods
11 1 (0.44%) MathWorks