YAML Job Trends in West Yorkshire

YAML
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 94 133
Rank change year-on-year -50 +39 +41
Permanent jobs citing YAML 3 1 14
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.093% 0.086% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% 0.42% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.34%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £72,433
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £82,500 - £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 408 236 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.67% 20.33% 19.43%
Number of salaries quoted 296 189 463
10th Percentile £37,500 £25,313 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,522 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.86%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

YAML job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

YAML
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing YAML

YAML
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leeds -39 3 £82,500 - 1
YAML
Yorkshire

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 3 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Groovy
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Packer
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) IBM