YAML Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

YAML
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 66 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +26
Contract jobs citing YAML 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.40% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.84% 1.20% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £429 - £479
25th Percentile £434 - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +0.50% +24.38%
75th Percentile £484 - £516
90th Percentile £486 - £525
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +18.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 163 166 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.70% 26.65% 23.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 104 114
10th Percentile £400 £408 £380
25th Percentile £413 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.49% +0.74%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £583
90th Percentile £624 £600 £693
Scotland median daily rate £450 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -8.81% +3.89% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing YAML

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Algolia
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power Query
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Laravel
1 1 (33.33%) Open Graph
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) WooCommerce