YAML Job Trends in the West Midlands

YAML
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 196 168
Rank change year-on-year +25 -28 +82
Permanent jobs citing YAML 7 3 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.072% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.71% 0.43% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £53,438 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £56,250 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% -48.86% +51.72%
75th Percentile £67,250 £58,438 £115,000
90th Percentile - £58,625 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 409 695 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.74% 16.78% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 356 373 583
10th Percentile £29,875 £38,350 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -5.28%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

YAML job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

YAML
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing YAML

YAML
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Birmingham +22 3 £57,500 +2.22% 3
Bilston - 3 £66,500 - 1
Solihull +1 1 - -
YAML
England

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (42.86%) CMS
1 3 (42.86%) nginx
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (42.86%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Functions
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) Power Automate
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) MSTest
2 3 (42.86%) NUnit
2 3 (42.86%) Vite
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Moq
3 1 (14.29%) NSubstitute
3 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Product Owner
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Core
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
1 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
1 3 (42.86%) ARM Templates
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET Web API
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) Entity Framework
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) Laravel
1 3 (42.86%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (42.86%) Tailwind CSS
1 3 (42.86%) Vue
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Backlog Management
2 3 (42.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (42.86%) Business Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Product Backlog
2 3 (42.86%) Product Vision
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
2 3 (42.86%) User Experience
2 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (28.57%) API Management
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) PHP
3 2 (28.57%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Nessus
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) VMware