YAML Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

YAML
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 65 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing YAML 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.24% 0.26% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.82% 1.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £466 -
25th Percentile £425 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £488 £497 -
90th Percentile £495 £499 -
England median daily rate £539 £478 £600
% change year-on-year +12.84% -20.38% +4.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 165 194 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.96% 25.59% 18.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 164 104
10th Percentile £381 £268 £306
25th Percentile £411 £358 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £600 £575 £621
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.39 -
25th Percentile £20.63 £20.60 -
Median hourly rate £23.75 £21.96 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -
75th Percentile £26.88 £24.05 -
90th Percentile £28.75 £24.71 -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

YAML job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing YAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing YAML

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Derbyshire - 2 £475 -
Leicestershire -11 1 £450 -5.26% 2
YAML
England

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks