YANG Job Trends

YANG
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring YANG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 - 709
Rank change year-on-year - - +319
Permanent jobs citing YANG 11 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% - 0.007%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% - 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 - £82,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +49.09%
75th Percentile £86,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £79,000 - £82,000
% change year-on-year - - +21.48%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

YANG 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 7,112 11,568 13,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,285 6,811 11,185
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

YANG
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing YANG relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

YANG job vacancy trend in the UK

YANG
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing YANG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing YANG

YANG
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YANG within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 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 - 11 £79,000 -
Work from Home - 10 - - 1
London - 7 - -
UK excluding London - 4 £79,000 - 1
South West - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £79,000 -
North of England - 1 £79,000 -

YANG
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 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) 4G
1 10 (90.91%) BGP
1 10 (90.91%) Broadband
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco IOS
1 10 (90.91%) Ethernet VPN
1 10 (90.91%) IOS XR
1 10 (90.91%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Git
General
1 10 (90.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
1 10 (90.91%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Network Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Associate Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Junior
5 1 (9.09%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Junior Network Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Network Supervisor
5 1 (9.09%) Network Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Network Technician
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) NETCONF
2 10 (90.91%) Jinja
3 1 (9.09%) DPDK
3 1 (9.09%) eBPF
3 1 (9.09%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Social Media
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) NVMe
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) Data Science
2 10 (90.91%) Network Design
2 10 (90.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Open Source
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) KVM
1 1 (9.09%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) SaltStack