YAML Contracts in Birmingham

YAML
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring YAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YAML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 66 73
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing YAML 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.57% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.53% 0.83% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £346 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - -
75th Percentile £446 - -
90th Percentile £471 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £375 £465
% change year-on-year +26.67% -19.35% -28.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

YAML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 85 120 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.28% 15.52% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 87 123
10th Percentile £380 £223 £330
25th Percentile £425 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £700
90th Percentile £700 £700 -
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.23% - -

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in Birmingham

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in Birmingham

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in Birmingham

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) SonarCloud
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Snyk
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Debian
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Log Aggregation
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Server Management
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Nessus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Sophos
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 YAML jobs in the West Midlands