YAML Contracts in the City of London

YAML
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 120 145
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 +43
Contract jobs citing YAML 8 7 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.32% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.66% 1.45% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 23
10th Percentile £550 £440 £500
25th Percentile £608 £481 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% +9.09% -11.65%
75th Percentile £651 £663 £725
90th Percentile £668 £670 £820
Central London median daily rate £640 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +6.71% +9.09% -11.65%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 482 482 1,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.45% 21.99% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 343 668
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for YAML in the City of London

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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