YAML Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

YAML
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing YAML 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.08% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £349 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
75th Percentile £402 - -
90th Percentile £429 - -
North West median daily rate £402 £413 £513
% change year-on-year -2.55% -19.51% +10.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 159 75 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.42% 16.67% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 55 36
10th Percentile £328 £303 £369
25th Percentile £358 £356 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £391 £494
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -20.81% +9.72%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £540
90th Percentile £686 £639 £575
North West median daily rate £450 £473 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £95.75 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £96.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% - -
75th Percentile £97.25 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £61.00 £65.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -6.87% +41.84% +2.62%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Cheshire

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing YAML

YAML
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Knutsford - 5 £380 - 4
YAML
North West

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) Mockito
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) Entity Framework
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) React Native
2 2 (28.57%) Swagger
2 2 (28.57%) Visualforce
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) Jest
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) API Design
3 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 2 (28.57%) Data Management
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) OOP
5 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) SOLID
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Apex Code
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) SOQL
3 1 (14.29%) SOSL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Veracode