YAML Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

YAML
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing YAML 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.26% - 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% - 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £524 - -
25th Percentile £541 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 - -
75th Percentile £604 - -
90th Percentile £617 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £585
% change year-on-year +10.53% -18.80% -10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 100 53 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 13.11% 15.96% 14.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 41 41
10th Percentile £364 £313 £413
25th Percentile £481 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.76% -19.05% -1.69%
75th Percentile £611 £475 £588
90th Percentile £630 £565 £675
South East median daily rate £535 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +12.63% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% - -
South East median hourly rate £67.47 £50.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +34.94% -20.00% +4.17%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing YAML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

YAML job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing YAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing YAML

YAML
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 2 £576 - 3
YAML
South East

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Solutions Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) VMware