YAML Job Trends in Wales

YAML
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing YAML 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.060% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,468 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 - -
75th Percentile £55,873 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £66,500 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.83% -1.67% +8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 71 96 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.29% 17.91% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 59 82 267
10th Percentile £38,350 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +20.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,281 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Wales

YAML
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing YAML

YAML
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
South Wales - 1 £53,171 - 1
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft