YAML Contracts in Central London

YAML
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 128 145
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 +45
Contract jobs citing YAML 8 7 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.40% 0.29% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.54% 1.31% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 22
10th Percentile £550 £440 £500
25th Percentile £608 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% +6.67% -9.64%
75th Percentile £651 £663 £725
90th Percentile £668 £670 £820
London median daily rate £500 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -19.96% +13.64% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 521 536 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.08% 21.96% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 387 700
10th Percentile £409 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £785 £780 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in Central London

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in Central London

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in Central London

YAML
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
City of London +8 8 £640 +6.71% 1
YAML
London

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 4 (50.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) WhatsApp
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SSH
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
2 4 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 4 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) RStudio
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
1 4 (50.00%) pydantic
1 4 (50.00%) PySpark
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (50.00%) Data Security
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (12.50%) Coaching
7 1 (12.50%) Data Science
7 1 (12.50%) GitOps
7 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
7 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 1 (12.50%) Product Thinking
7 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
2 4 (50.00%) Scala
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft