YAML Contracts in the City of London

YAML
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for YAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited YAML over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 141 183
Rank change year-on-year +24 +42 -27
Contract jobs citing YAML 7 30 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.32% 0.83% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 2.95% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 5
10th Percentile £440 £500 £502
25th Percentile £481 £514 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £623
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -11.65% -17.00%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £634
90th Percentile £670 £820 £689
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £623
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.65% -17.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

YAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 481 1,017 1,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.14% 28.16% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 665 1,037
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £775 £820 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +255.71%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
Central London median hourly rate - - £62.25
% change year-on-year - - +255.71%

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 5 May 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Parquet
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) ERwin
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) React Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) UI/UX Developer
2 1 (14.29%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Avro
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) JSON Schema
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SignalR
2 1 (14.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) DataPower
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Interaction Design
4 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Black Duck