YAML Contracts in the South East

YAML
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 185 247
Rank change year-on-year -4 +62 -69
Contract jobs citing YAML 14 31 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.25% 0.53% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.87% 2.95% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 8
10th Percentile £338 £473 £447
25th Percentile £377 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £581
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +3.23% +29.17%
75th Percentile £584 £700 £606
90th Percentile £610 £750 £664
England median daily rate £600 £569 £550
% change year-on-year +5.49% +3.41% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate - £75.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +37.27% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East 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 749 1,050 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.45% 17.98% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 746 1,039
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £667 £725 £669
England median daily rate £550 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -2.65% +0.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 35 42
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.00 £21.65
25th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £32.19
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +51.35% +11.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £64.66
90th Percentile £76.50 £79.83 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for YAML in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 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
Thames Valley -1 11 £438 -20.45%
Berkshire -24 8 £400 -27.27%
Buckinghamshire +36 3 £590 -
Hampshire +7 1 - - 4
Surrey +7 1 £550 -9.28%
West Sussex - 1 £475 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) NuGet
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) SNA
1 3 (21.43%) VSAN
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) Artifactory
2 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (7.14%) Advertising
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
1 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Junior
2 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) JSON
2 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 2 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
3 1 (7.14%) Regular Expression
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) GitOps
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Network Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) RBAC
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bicep
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware NSX
2 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.14%) Ceph
4 1 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
3 4 (28.57%) Grafana
3 4 (28.57%) Istio
4 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 3 (21.43%) vCenter Server
4 3 (21.43%) vRealize
5 1 (7.14%) Kibana
5 1 (7.14%) logstash
5 1 (7.14%) Pacemaker
5 1 (7.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) BMC
4 1 (7.14%) Databricks
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Remedy
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Sun