YAML Contracts with Work from Home Options

YAML
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 324 440
Rank change year-on-year +59 +116 -99
Contract jobs citing YAML 76 145 179
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.58% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.09% 2.29% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 107 140
10th Percentile £454 £457 £430
25th Percentile £499 £459 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -0.90% +11.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £652
90th Percentile £695 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £590 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +7.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +41.82% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,636 6,344 12,982
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.12% 25.29% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,551 4,723 9,580
10th Percentile £331 £399 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 116
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

YAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

YAML trend for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing YAML.

YAML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing YAML over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

YAML daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (5.26%) Apache Solr
1 4 (5.26%) nginx
2 2 (2.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (51.32%) Azure
2 26 (34.21%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (21.05%) GitHub
4 12 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (14.47%) Azure API Management
6 10 (13.16%) AWS
6 10 (13.16%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (11.84%) GCP
8 8 (10.53%) NuGet
9 7 (9.21%) Azure AKS
9 7 (9.21%) PaaS
9 7 (9.21%) Serverless
10 6 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (6.58%) Apigee
11 5 (6.58%) Azure Functions
12 4 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
12 4 (5.26%) IaaS
13 3 (3.95%) OpenShift
13 3 (3.95%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.84%) DNS
1 9 (11.84%) Firewall
2 6 (7.89%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.58%) HTTP
3 5 (6.58%) VPN
4 4 (5.26%) HTTPS
4 4 (5.26%) IPsec
5 3 (3.95%) SNA
5 3 (3.95%) VSAN
6 2 (2.63%) FTP
6 2 (2.63%) Internet
7 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.32%) LAN
7 1 (1.32%) Modbus
7 1 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (9.21%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.58%) MySQL
4 4 (5.26%) Couchbase
4 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.63%) Redis
7 1 (1.32%) Big Data
7 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.32%) Parquet
7 1 (1.32%) SSDT
7 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (30.26%) Git
2 19 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (15.79%) GitLab
4 6 (7.89%) JIRA
5 3 (3.95%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.95%) Gradle
6 2 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.63%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.63%) NUnit
6 2 (2.63%) Selenium
6 2 (2.63%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.63%) Travis CI
6 2 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.32%) CMake
7 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.21%) Finance
4 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Legal
6 3 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Electronics
7 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (23.68%) Developer
3 14 (18.42%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (15.79%) .NET Developer
5 9 (11.84%) Azure Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Senior
7 7 (9.21%) Storage Manager
8 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Security Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Integration Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) C# Developer
10 4 (5.26%) IBM Storage Specialist
10 4 (5.26%) Lead
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Security Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Storage Specialist
11 3 (3.95%) Azure Security Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Full Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.32%) JSON
2 19 (25.00%) .NET
3 16 (21.05%) REST
4 9 (11.84%) GraphQL
4 9 (11.84%) SOAP
5 8 (10.53%) .NET Core
5 8 (10.53%) Swagger
6 7 (9.21%) ARM Templates
6 7 (9.21%) Node.js
6 7 (9.21%) XML
7 5 (6.58%) OAuth
7 5 (6.58%) OAuth2
8 4 (5.26%) .NET Framework
8 4 (5.26%) Entity Framework
8 4 (5.26%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.26%) React
9 3 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.95%) OpenAPI
9 3 (3.95%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) Data Centre
2 10 (13.16%) Cloud Native
3 7 (9.21%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.89%) Management Information System
5 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.95%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.32%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (38.16%) Linux
2 12 (15.79%) zOS
3 5 (6.58%) Windows
4 4 (5.26%) CentOS
4 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.95%) Unix
6 2 (2.63%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.32%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (60.53%) DevOps
2 42 (55.26%) CI/CD
3 41 (53.95%) Agile
4 32 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (22.37%) Microservices
6 14 (18.42%) API Management
7 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (17.11%) SDLC
8 12 (15.79%) Problem Management
8 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
8 12 (15.79%) Storage Management
9 11 (14.47%) High Availability
10 10 (13.16%) Project Management
10 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (13.16%) Test Automation
11 9 (11.84%) Configuration Management
11 9 (11.84%) Scrum
11 9 (11.84%) TDD
11 9 (11.84%) Unit Testing
12 8 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 38 (50.00%) Python
2 22 (28.95%) C#
3 18 (23.68%) PowerShell
4 17 (22.37%) SQL
5 12 (15.79%) JCL
5 12 (15.79%) REXX
6 10 (13.16%) Bicep
7 5 (6.58%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.26%) Bash
8 4 (5.26%) Java
8 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.26%) PHP
9 3 (3.95%) Go
9 3 (3.95%) Ruby
9 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.32%) C
10 1 (1.32%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (14.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) QA
2 8 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.26%) GDPR
3 4 (5.26%) HIPAA
3 4 (5.26%) NIST
4 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) Docker
2 12 (15.79%) NFS
2 12 (15.79%) Time Sharing Option
3 8 (10.53%) VMware NSX
4 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
4 5 (6.58%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (6.58%) vSphere
5 3 (3.95%) vCloud
5 3 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.63%) Ceph
6 2 (2.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (47.37%) Terraform
2 27 (35.53%) Ansible
3 21 (27.63%) Kubernetes
4 11 (14.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (9.21%) Progress Chef
6 6 (7.89%) Puppet
7 5 (6.58%) Prometheus
8 4 (5.26%) Grafana
9 3 (3.95%) Autotask
9 3 (3.95%) vCenter Server
9 3 (3.95%) vRealize
10 2 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.63%) Kibana
10 2 (2.63%) logstash
10 2 (2.63%) Pacemaker
10 2 (2.63%) Podman
10 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.32%) Argo
11 1 (1.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Dell
2 12 (15.79%) Broadcom
2 12 (15.79%) Brocade
2 12 (15.79%) CA
2 12 (15.79%) IBM
3 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.53%) VMware
5 7 (9.21%) Google
6 5 (6.58%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.26%) BMC
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle
7 4 (5.26%) Remedy
8 3 (3.95%) Arista
8 3 (3.95%) TOWER Software
9 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.63%) SAP
9 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.63%) Splunk
9 2 (2.63%) Sun
10 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds