YAML Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

YAML
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring YAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited YAML over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 462 519
Rank change year-on-year +33 +57 +215
Permanent jobs citing YAML 24 126 143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.37% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.47% 1.40% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 22 61 104
10th Percentile £47,550 £56,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,313 £67,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £77,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +11.60% -4.21%
75th Percentile £85,625 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,625 £115,000 £90,875
UK median annual salary £70,500 £75,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -6.00% +8.00% -0.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 5,100 8,994 13,891
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.29% 26.71% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,043 7,519 10,442
10th Percentile £39,000 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +6.30%

YAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

YAML trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

YAML
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing YAML.

YAML salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing YAML over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

YAML salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (16.67%) GitHub
5 4 (16.67%) SaaS
5 4 (16.67%) Serverless
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) BGP
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
1 4 (16.67%) IPsec
1 4 (16.67%) OSPF
1 4 (16.67%) SSL
1 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (16.67%) VoIP
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) JMeter
2 2 (8.33%) Locust
2 2 (8.33%) Postman
2 2 (8.33%) Robot Framework
2 2 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (20.83%) Banking
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Advertising
3 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) JSON
2 4 (16.67%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) .NET
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
4 2 (8.33%) pytest
4 2 (8.33%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (8.33%) SOAP
4 2 (8.33%) Vue
4 2 (8.33%) Web Services
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.17%) ADO
5 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (4.17%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (45.83%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
5 5 (20.83%) Change Management
5 5 (20.83%) DevSecOps
5 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.83%) Scrum
6 4 (16.67%) Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (12.50%) Information Security
7 3 (12.50%) OWASP
7 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 3 (12.50%) Security Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.83%) C#
4 5 (20.83%) SQL
5 3 (12.50%) Ruby
6 2 (8.33%) Bash
6 2 (8.33%) Bicep
6 2 (8.33%) VB.NET
7 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) CCNP
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.17%) MCSD
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco
2 2 (8.33%) Commvault
2 2 (8.33%) Darktrace
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) DevExpress
2 2 (8.33%) IBM
2 2 (8.33%) Juniper
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk