YAML Contracts in the Midlands

YAML
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 159 200
Rank change year-on-year +29 +41 -55
Contract jobs citing YAML 3 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 1.34% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £461 £578
25th Percentile - £466 £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -26.92% +38.30%
75th Percentile - £525 £734
90th Percentile - £555 £790
England median daily rate £600 £560 £556
% change year-on-year +7.14% +0.67% +11.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands 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 384 595 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.93% 17.29% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 464 713
10th Percentile £276 £313 £356
25th Percentile £362 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +17.50%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £550
90th Percentile £725 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 10
10th Percentile £10.90 - £19.63
25th Percentile £14.13 - £20.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £23.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.46%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £40.63
90th Percentile £56.25 - £46.67
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the Midlands

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in the Midlands

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
West Midlands +25 3 £375 -19.35% 3
YAML
England

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure App Service
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Dependency Management
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Data Development
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP