YAML Contracts in the North West

YAML
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 146 164
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 -33
Contract jobs citing YAML 4 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.31% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% 1.66% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 16
10th Percentile - £293 £436
25th Percentile £494 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £534 £544 £538
90th Percentile £536 £620 £550
England median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West 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 504 602 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.18% 18.70% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 474 741
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.12%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £740 £647 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 26
10th Percentile £37.63 £35.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.10 £25.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £42.80 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +5.37% +19.46%
75th Percentile £71.87 £45.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 - £62.50
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the North West

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in the North West

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Manchester +10 2 £513 +7.89%
Cumbria - 2 £520 -
YAML
England

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) pytest
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Alpine Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (50.00%) Sprint Backlog
1 2 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft