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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 - 719
Rank change year-on-year - - +411
Permanent jobs citing YANG 2 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% - 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.026% - 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,000 - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 - £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.62%
75th Percentile £86,000 - £82,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £79,000 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.66%

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 7,807 13,802 14,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.55% 20.30% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,991 8,369 12,075
10th Percentile £36,750 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,974
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% +0.88%

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 6 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 31 October 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 - 2 £79,000 - 1
Work from Home - 1 - - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £79,000 - 2
North of England - 1 £79,000 - 1
London - 1 - -
North West - 1 £79,000 - 1

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 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Akamai
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) IOS XR
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) DPDK
1 1 (50.00%) eBPF
1 1 (50.00%) Jinja
1 1 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (50.00%) RESTCONF
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) NVMe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack