YAML Contracts in England

YAML
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for YAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited YAML over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 337 557
Rank change year-on-year -45 +220 -115
Contract jobs citing YAML 159 341 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.72% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.09% 3.14% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 240 155
10th Percentile £419 £458 £460
25th Percentile £498 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £645 £700 £671
90th Percentile £675 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £72.75 -
25th Percentile - £76.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £84.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +52.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £90.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £84.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +52.73% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,617 10,847 18,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.75% 22.78% 26.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,406 8,048 14,266
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -2.28% +14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £791 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 129 203
10th Percentile £22.63 £29.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +11.70%
75th Percentile £66.38 £75.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in England.

Daily rate trend for YAML in England

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in England.

Hourly rate trend for YAML in England

YAML
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -72 74 £620 +12.73% 10
North of England +35 29 £513 -14.58% 9
Yorkshire - 25 £479 - 6
South East +5 24 £553 -9.80% 13
South West +14 21 £525 -14.29% 1
Midlands +30 13 £582 +5.82% 3
West Midlands +17 13 £582 - 2
North West +15 4 £514 +2.75% 2
East of England +8 4 £625 +47.06% 5
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (7.55%) Confluence
2 4 (2.52%) Apache Solr
2 4 (2.52%) nginx
3 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (53.46%) Azure
2 47 (29.56%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (22.01%) GitHub
4 33 (20.75%) AWS
5 26 (16.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (11.32%) Azure API Management
7 17 (10.69%) GCP
8 15 (9.43%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (6.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (6.92%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (6.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (6.92%) NuGet
9 11 (6.92%) Serverless
10 10 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.29%) Entra ID
10 10 (6.29%) PaaS
11 9 (5.66%) Apigee
11 9 (5.66%) Kong
12 8 (5.03%) Azure AKS
12 8 (5.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.84%) DNS
2 21 (13.21%) Firewall
3 15 (9.43%) VPN
4 14 (8.81%) TCP/IP
5 13 (8.18%) HTTP
6 5 (3.14%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.52%) IPsec
7 4 (2.52%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (2.52%) SSL
8 3 (1.89%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (1.89%) SNA
8 3 (1.89%) VSAN
9 2 (1.26%) Internet
9 2 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.63%) LAN
10 1 (0.63%) Network Security
10 1 (0.63%) SNMP
10 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.06%) NoSQL
2 14 (8.81%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.92%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.77%) MySQL
7 5 (3.14%) Couchbase
7 5 (3.14%) Parquet
7 5 (3.14%) SSDT
8 4 (2.52%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.52%) Redis
9 2 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.26%) Big Data
9 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.26%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.26%) Power BI
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.63%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.63%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 68 (42.77%) Git
2 26 (16.35%) Jenkins
3 22 (13.84%) GitLab
4 16 (10.06%) JIRA
5 15 (9.43%) Artifactory
6 10 (6.29%) SonarQube
7 9 (5.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (5.66%) CircleCI
7 9 (5.66%) Travis CI
8 4 (2.52%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.52%) Selenium
8 4 (2.52%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.89%) Gradle
9 3 (1.89%) Subversion
9 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.26%) Maven
11 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.63%) ERwin
11 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 48 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.72%) Finance
3 15 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.29%) Legal
5 9 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.77%) Banking
8 4 (2.52%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (25.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (14.47%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (12.58%) Developer
4 14 (8.81%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (8.81%) Senior
5 13 (8.18%) Storage Manager
6 10 (6.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.03%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (5.03%) Data Engineer
7 8 (5.03%) Lead
8 7 (4.40%) Architect
8 7 (4.40%) Azure Developer
8 7 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Security Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Environment And Release Manager
10 5 (3.14%) Environment Manager
10 5 (3.14%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (27.04%) JSON
2 24 (15.09%) .NET
3 19 (11.95%) .NET Core
3 19 (11.95%) REST
4 17 (10.69%) XML
5 9 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (5.66%) GraphQL
5 9 (5.66%) Swagger
6 8 (5.03%) HTML
6 8 (5.03%) SOAP
7 7 (4.40%) Node.js
7 7 (4.40%) React
8 6 (3.77%) WebSockets
9 4 (2.52%) CSS
9 4 (2.52%) HTML5
9 4 (2.52%) JSON Schema
9 4 (2.52%) OAuth
9 4 (2.52%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.52%) pytest
9 4 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.69%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.81%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.55%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (6.92%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.66%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.14%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.52%) ASIC
7 4 (2.52%) FPGA
7 4 (2.52%) Verilog
8 3 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.26%) Replication
9 2 (1.26%) Solar Panel
9 2 (1.26%) Wiki
10 1 (0.63%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 58 (36.48%) Linux
2 21 (13.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (12.58%) Windows
4 16 (10.06%) zOS
5 9 (5.66%) Unix
6 4 (2.52%) Alpine Linux
6 4 (2.52%) CentOS
7 3 (1.89%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (57.23%) DevOps
2 76 (47.80%) CI/CD
3 71 (44.65%) Agile
4 68 (42.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (16.35%) Project Management
7 24 (15.09%) API Management
7 24 (15.09%) Scrum
8 22 (13.84%) Configuration Management
9 20 (12.58%) Containerisation
9 20 (12.58%) Infrastructure Automation
9 20 (12.58%) OO
9 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (11.95%) Software Engineering
10 19 (11.95%) Validation
11 18 (11.32%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (11.32%) SDLC
11 18 (11.32%) TDD
12 17 (10.69%) Microservices
12 17 (10.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (42.77%) Python
2 58 (36.48%) PowerShell
3 31 (19.50%) SQL
4 28 (17.61%) C#
5 25 (15.72%) Bash
6 19 (11.95%) Bicep
7 16 (10.06%) JCL
7 16 (10.06%) REXX
8 11 (6.92%) JavaScript
9 9 (5.66%) Shell Script
10 7 (4.40%) Java
11 5 (3.14%) C++
12 4 (2.52%) PHP
12 4 (2.52%) SystemVerilog
12 4 (2.52%) Tcl
13 3 (1.89%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.89%) Assembly Language
13 3 (1.89%) C
13 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
14 2 (1.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.03%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.77%) Degree
5 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) CCNP
7 1 (0.63%) CEH
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) GCIA
7 1 (0.63%) GCIH
7 1 (0.63%) GIAC
7 1 (0.63%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.43%) QA
2 10 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.40%) GDPR
4 6 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.52%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.52%) NIST
6 2 (1.26%) WCAG
7 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (23.90%) Docker
2 26 (16.35%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (12.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (10.06%) NFS
4 16 (10.06%) Time Sharing Option
5 12 (7.55%) Active Directory
6 5 (3.14%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.26%) Ceph
8 2 (1.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (1.26%) vSphere
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 86 (54.09%) Terraform
2 67 (42.14%) Ansible
3 39 (24.53%) Kubernetes
4 24 (15.09%) Progress Chef
4 24 (15.09%) Puppet
5 19 (11.95%) Grafana
6 15 (9.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 14 (8.81%) Prometheus
7 14 (8.81%) Salt
8 9 (5.66%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (5.66%) Kibana
8 9 (5.66%) logstash
9 5 (3.14%) Istio
10 3 (1.89%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.89%) vRealize
11 2 (1.26%) Pacemaker
11 2 (1.26%) Podman
12 1 (0.63%) Argo
12 1 (0.63%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 26 (16.35%) VMware
2 23 (14.47%) Red Hat
3 20 (12.58%) Microsoft
4 16 (10.06%) Broadcom
4 16 (10.06%) Brocade
4 16 (10.06%) CA
4 16 (10.06%) Dell
4 16 (10.06%) IBM
5 13 (8.18%) SaltStack
6 10 (6.29%) Splunk
7 7 (4.40%) Google
8 6 (3.77%) Oracle
9 4 (2.52%) Black Duck
10 3 (1.89%) Cadence
10 3 (1.89%) Databricks
10 3 (1.89%) F5
10 3 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.89%) Synopsys
10 3 (1.89%) Xilinx
11 2 (1.26%) Sun