YAML
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for YAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited YAML over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 695 670 958
Rank change year-on-year -25 +288 -173
Permanent jobs citing YAML 219 312 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% 1.06% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 128 167 208
10th Percentile £48,375 £47,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -0.79% +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £92,000 £91,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,956 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.13% -2.29% +22.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

YAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,233 29,514 67,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.84% 30.09% 41.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15,845 18,257 29,754
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,875
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.05% +17.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing YAML.

Salary trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing YAML over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the UK over the 6 months to 26 May 2024. 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 -18 195 £75,000 +8.00% 42
UK excluding London -49 148 £70,000 +6.13% 36
Work from Home +40 122 £77,500 +11.60% 29
London +72 64 £77,250 -3.44% 11
Midlands -12 36 £86,485 +57.25% 2
South West +5 34 £80,000 +15.20% 2
North of England -17 31 £67,500 +2.34% 9
West Midlands +14 28 £98,243 +78.62% 2
South East +6 24 £70,000 -17.65% 12
Yorkshire +25 20 £67,500 +2.34% 6
Scotland -66 11 £35,000 -49.60% 6
North West -2 10 - - 2
East Midlands -21 8 £57,500 +4.55%
Northern Ireland +23 5 - -
Wales +11 5 - -
East of England +14 2 £55,750 -34.41% 5
North East - 1 £70,000 - 1

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 74 (33.79%) Apache
2 20 (9.13%) nginx
3 17 (7.76%) Apache Spark
3 17 (7.76%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.91%) Confluence
4 2 (0.91%) WordPress
5 1 (0.46%) IIS
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.46%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 115 (52.51%) Azure
2 82 (37.44%) Amazon S3
3 63 (28.77%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (13.24%) PaaS
5 21 (9.59%) IaaS
5 21 (9.59%) OpenShift
6 19 (8.68%) Entra ID
7 18 (8.22%) AWS
7 18 (8.22%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (7.76%) MinIO
9 15 (6.85%) Azure API Management
10 11 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.57%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (4.57%) GCP
11 10 (4.57%) GitHub
11 10 (4.57%) Serverless
12 9 (4.11%) Azure AKS
12 9 (4.11%) Azure App Service
12 9 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (4.11%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 78 (35.62%) VPN
2 77 (35.16%) Firewall
3 65 (29.68%) Internet
4 63 (28.77%) SNMP
5 54 (24.66%) IPsec
6 32 (14.61%) DNS
7 11 (5.02%) BGP
7 11 (5.02%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (5.02%) MPLS
8 10 (4.57%) TCP/IP
9 9 (4.11%) NGFW
9 9 (4.11%) tcpdump
9 9 (4.11%) WAN
10 7 (3.20%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.28%) Network Security
12 3 (1.37%) HTTP
12 3 (1.37%) SSL
13 2 (0.91%) LAN
13 2 (0.91%) Wireless
14 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (33.79%) MongoDB
2 68 (31.05%) Elasticsearch
3 43 (19.63%) SQL Server
4 22 (10.05%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.76%) Big Data
5 17 (7.76%) Hadoop
5 17 (7.76%) MySQL
5 17 (7.76%) Presto
6 11 (5.02%) SQLite
7 8 (3.65%) Power BI
8 7 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.74%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.83%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.83%) HDInsight
10 4 (1.83%) Looker
10 4 (1.83%) QlikView
10 4 (1.83%) Tableau
11 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (17.35%) Git
2 31 (14.16%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.59%) GitLab
4 18 (8.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (5.94%) JIRA
6 11 (5.02%) Artifactory
7 7 (3.20%) Katalon Studio
7 7 (3.20%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.91%) Gradle
8 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.46%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (34.25%) Finance
2 48 (21.92%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.96%) Telecoms
4 20 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.31%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.65%) Marketing
9 7 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.74%) Police
10 6 (2.74%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.83%) Electronics
12 3 (1.37%) Banking
12 3 (1.37%) German Language
12 3 (1.37%) Retail
13 2 (0.91%) Automotive
13 2 (0.91%) Back Office
13 2 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 54 (24.66%) Consultant
1 54 (24.66%) NetApp Consultant
2 53 (24.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (16.89%) Senior
4 34 (15.53%) Architect
4 34 (15.53%) Developer
5 26 (11.87%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (7.76%) Big Data Engineer
6 17 (7.76%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 12 (5.48%) Lead
8 12 (5.48%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.02%) Citrix Architect
9 11 (5.02%) Linux Engineer
10 10 (4.57%) Lead DevOps
10 10 (4.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (4.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
11 9 (4.11%) DevOps Architect
11 9 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (32.88%) RabbitMQ
2 43 (19.63%) JSON
3 42 (19.18%) .NET
4 28 (12.79%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (11.87%) XML
6 25 (11.42%) ASP.NET
7 24 (10.96%) ARM Templates
8 23 (10.50%) Entity Framework
8 23 (10.50%) HTML
9 22 (10.05%) RESTful
10 21 (9.59%) .NET Core
10 21 (9.59%) .NET Framework
11 18 (8.22%) REST
12 17 (7.76%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (7.76%) Apache NiFi
12 17 (7.76%) Blazor
13 14 (6.39%) React
14 13 (5.94%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (5.02%) CSS
15 11 (5.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (25.11%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.48%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.11%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.11%) Clustering
4 9 (4.11%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.20%) Cloud Security Posture
5 7 (3.20%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (3.20%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.46%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.46%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 110 (50.23%) Linux
2 85 (38.81%) Windows
3 54 (24.66%) Data ONTAP
4 14 (6.39%) Windows Server
5 12 (5.48%) Unix
6 11 (5.02%) CentOS
7 4 (1.83%) VMS
8 3 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (62.56%) DevOps
2 92 (42.01%) CI/CD
2 92 (42.01%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (38.81%) Agile
4 75 (34.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (27.40%) Containerisation
5 60 (27.40%) Project Management
6 56 (25.57%) Infrastructure Management
7 55 (25.11%) Storage Management
8 54 (24.66%) Actionable Insight
8 54 (24.66%) Project Planning
8 54 (24.66%) Release Management
9 47 (21.46%) Scrum
10 40 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (12.79%) Roadmaps
12 24 (10.96%) Microservices
13 21 (9.59%) Data Engineering
13 21 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (9.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 19 (8.68%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 118 (53.88%) Python
2 63 (28.77%) PowerShell
3 57 (26.03%) C#
3 57 (26.03%) SQL
4 31 (14.16%) Bash
5 22 (10.05%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.68%) Shell Script
6 19 (8.68%) T-SQL
7 14 (6.39%) Bicep
8 11 (5.02%) PHP
8 11 (5.02%) XAML
9 10 (4.57%) Perl
10 4 (1.83%) Java
10 4 (1.83%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.83%) VB
11 3 (1.37%) Ruby
12 2 (0.91%) AWK
12 2 (0.91%) C++
12 2 (0.91%) Gremlin
12 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (10.05%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.76%) DV Cleared
3 8 (3.65%) Degree
4 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.83%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.46%) CISSP
6 1 (0.46%) MCSA
6 1 (0.46%) MCSE
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.74%) QA
2 4 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (1.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 116 (52.97%) Docker
2 64 (29.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (8.22%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (7.31%) Active Directory
5 11 (5.02%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (4.11%) vSphere
7 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.46%) NFS
8 1 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 116 (52.97%) Kubernetes
2 89 (40.64%) Ansible
3 80 (36.53%) Terraform
4 71 (32.42%) Prometheus
5 63 (28.77%) vCenter Server
6 30 (13.70%) Grafana
7 26 (11.87%) HAProxy
8 14 (6.39%) Puppet
9 9 (4.11%) Graphite
9 9 (4.11%) Nagios
10 7 (3.20%) Packer
11 3 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.37%) Kibana
11 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.46%) Istio
13 1 (0.46%) logstash
13 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.46%) Salt
Vendors
1 65 (29.68%) VMware
2 57 (26.03%) Red Hat
3 54 (24.66%) NetApp
3 54 (24.66%) Palo Alto
3 54 (24.66%) SolidFire
4 35 (15.98%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.94%) Cisco
6 11 (5.02%) Citrix
7 7 (3.20%) DevExpress
8 6 (2.74%) Oracle
8 6 (2.74%) Twitter
9 5 (2.28%) SAP
10 4 (1.83%) Databricks
11 2 (0.91%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.91%) IBM
11 2 (0.91%) Meraki
11 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.91%) Software AG
11 2 (0.91%) webMethods
12 1 (0.46%) Brocade