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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 331 561
Rank change year-on-year -79 +230 -114
Contract jobs citing YAML 136 348 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.72% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.82% 3.13% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 246 153
10th Percentile £415 £458 £452
25th Percentile £494 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £670
90th Percentile £688 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £72.00 -
25th Percentile - £74.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £84.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £87.60 -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +41.82% +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 7,471 11,102 18,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.55% 22.99% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,300 8,242 14,179
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 133 215
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.60 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +10.99%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 15 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 15 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 -60 71 £625 +13.64% 7
North of England +29 29 £513 -14.58% 5
Yorkshire - 25 £479 - 3
South West +19 12 £525 -14.29% 1
South East -5 10 £438 -27.14% 8
North West +12 4 £514 +2.75% 1
East of England +12 4 £625 +47.06% 1
Midlands +26 2 £375 -21.05% 2
West Midlands +15 2 £375 -19.35% 2
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 (8.82%) Confluence
2 4 (2.94%) Apache Solr
2 4 (2.94%) nginx
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 81 (59.56%) Azure
2 48 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (26.47%) AWS
4 33 (24.26%) GitHub
5 26 (19.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (12.50%) GCP
7 13 (9.56%) Azure API Management
8 12 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (8.82%) Serverless
9 11 (8.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (8.09%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (8.09%) NuGet
9 11 (8.09%) PaaS
10 10 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (6.62%) Apigee
11 9 (6.62%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (6.62%) Kong
12 8 (5.88%) Azure AKS
12 8 (5.88%) IaaS
13 7 (5.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.18%) DNS
2 21 (15.44%) Firewall
3 15 (11.03%) VPN
4 14 (10.29%) TCP/IP
5 13 (9.56%) HTTP
6 5 (3.68%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.94%) IPsec
7 4 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (2.94%) SSL
8 3 (2.21%) BIG-IP
8 3 (2.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (2.21%) SNA
8 3 (2.21%) VSAN
9 2 (1.47%) Internet
9 2 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.74%) LAN
10 1 (0.74%) Network Security
10 1 (0.74%) SNMP
10 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.03%) NoSQL
2 14 (10.29%) SQL Server
3 11 (8.09%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (4.41%) MySQL
5 6 (4.41%) Parquet
6 5 (3.68%) Couchbase
7 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.94%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.94%) Redis
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.47%) Big Data
9 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.47%) Power BI
10 1 (0.74%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.74%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (37.50%) Git
2 26 (19.12%) Jenkins
3 22 (16.18%) GitLab
4 15 (11.03%) Artifactory
4 15 (11.03%) JIRA
5 10 (7.35%) SonarQube
6 9 (6.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (6.62%) CircleCI
6 9 (6.62%) Travis CI
7 4 (2.94%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.94%) Selenium
7 4 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (2.21%) Gradle
8 3 (2.21%) Subversion
8 3 (2.21%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.47%) Maven
10 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.74%) ERwin
10 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.38%) Finance
3 13 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.35%) Legal
5 7 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.21%) Banking
6 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.21%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.47%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Advertising
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (27.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (12.50%) Developer
4 14 (10.29%) Senior
5 13 (9.56%) Storage Manager
6 10 (7.35%) Lead
6 10 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Security Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Architect
9 7 (5.15%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Azure Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) DevOps Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (31.62%) JSON
2 24 (17.65%) .NET
3 19 (13.97%) .NET Core
4 18 (13.24%) REST
5 14 (10.29%) XML
6 9 (6.62%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (6.62%) GraphQL
7 8 (5.88%) SOAP
8 7 (5.15%) Node.js
8 7 (5.15%) Swagger
9 6 (4.41%) React
9 6 (4.41%) WebSockets
10 5 (3.68%) ARM Templates
10 5 (3.68%) HTML
11 4 (2.94%) HTML5
11 4 (2.94%) JSON Schema
11 4 (2.94%) OAuth
11 4 (2.94%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.94%) pytest
11 4 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.97%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.82%) Data Structures
2 12 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (8.09%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.62%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.68%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.94%) ASIC
6 4 (2.94%) FPGA
6 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.94%) Verilog
7 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.21%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.47%) Replication
8 2 (1.47%) Solar Panel
8 2 (1.47%) Wiki
9 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (30.88%) Linux
2 16 (11.76%) zOS
3 9 (6.62%) Unix
4 6 (4.41%) Windows
5 5 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.68%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.94%) Alpine Linux
6 4 (2.94%) CentOS
7 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (59.56%) DevOps
2 71 (52.21%) Agile
2 71 (52.21%) CI/CD
3 45 (33.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (19.12%) Project Management
5 24 (17.65%) API Management
5 24 (17.65%) Scrum
6 22 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (13.97%) Software Engineering
8 18 (13.24%) Microservices
8 18 (13.24%) OO
8 18 (13.24%) TDD
9 17 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 16 (11.76%) DevSecOps
10 16 (11.76%) SDLC
10 16 (11.76%) Storage Management
11 15 (11.03%) Problem Management
12 14 (10.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 71 (52.21%) Python
2 42 (30.88%) PowerShell
3 31 (22.79%) SQL
4 28 (20.59%) C#
5 24 (17.65%) Bash
6 19 (13.97%) Bicep
7 16 (11.76%) JCL
7 16 (11.76%) REXX
8 9 (6.62%) Shell Script
9 8 (5.88%) JavaScript
10 7 (5.15%) Java
11 4 (2.94%) C
11 4 (2.94%) PHP
11 4 (2.94%) SystemVerilog
11 4 (2.94%) Tcl
12 3 (2.21%) ActionScript
12 3 (2.21%) Assembly Language
12 3 (2.21%) C++
13 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.41%) Degree
5 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) CCNP
7 1 (0.74%) CEH
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.74%) GCIA
7 1 (0.74%) GCIH
7 1 (0.74%) GIAC
7 1 (0.74%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.03%) QA
2 11 (8.09%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (5.15%) GDPR
5 4 (2.94%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.94%) NIST
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (26.47%) Docker
2 16 (11.76%) NFS
2 16 (11.76%) Time Sharing Option
3 13 (9.56%) Active Directory
4 10 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.68%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.47%) Ceph
8 2 (1.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (1.47%) vSphere
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 63 (46.32%) Terraform
2 51 (37.50%) Ansible
3 42 (30.88%) Kubernetes
4 19 (13.97%) Grafana
5 15 (11.03%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 14 (10.29%) Prometheus
7 9 (6.62%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (6.62%) Kibana
7 9 (6.62%) logstash
7 9 (6.62%) Progress Chef
7 9 (6.62%) Puppet
8 5 (3.68%) Istio
9 3 (2.21%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.21%) vRealize
10 2 (1.47%) Pacemaker
10 2 (1.47%) Podman
11 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.74%) Argo
11 1 (0.74%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.76%) Broadcom
2 16 (11.76%) Brocade
2 16 (11.76%) CA
2 16 (11.76%) Dell
2 16 (11.76%) IBM
3 10 (7.35%) Splunk
4 9 (6.62%) Red Hat
4 9 (6.62%) VMware
5 7 (5.15%) Google
6 6 (4.41%) Oracle
7 4 (2.94%) Black Duck
8 3 (2.21%) Cadence
8 3 (2.21%) Databricks
8 3 (2.21%) F5
8 3 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.21%) Synopsys
8 3 (2.21%) Xilinx
9 2 (1.47%) Sun
9 2 (1.47%) Talend