YAML Contract Job Trends in England

YAML
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring YAML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 389 392
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +164
Contract jobs citing YAML 109 145 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.44% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.75% 1.98% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 90 156
10th Percentile £350 £475 £463
25th Percentile £418 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £576
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £691 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -13.04% +1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £74.53
25th Percentile £100.00 £57.50 £76.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 £60.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -23.08% +2.97%
75th Percentile £110.00 £62.50 £81.56
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +45.83% -23.08% +2.97%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,219 7,320 9,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.40% 22.39% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,216 4,831 6,797
10th Percentile £350 £357 £380
25th Percentile £413 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -0.45% -3.91%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 176 164
10th Percentile £31.29 £27.38 £36.84
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.85 £62.93 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +2.74% -2.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -3.23%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in England

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing YAML

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in England

YAML
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing YAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing YAML

YAML
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the England region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
London +12 63 £475 -20.83% 15
Midlands -16 17 £618 +5.64% 1
South East +21 16 £455 -21.82% 7
West Midlands -17 15 £700 +19.66% 1
South West +15 8 £700 +21.53% 1
North of England -22 6 £425 -32.00% 5
North West -13 4 £450 +9.09% 3
East Midlands - 2 £488 -
East of England +2 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -23 1 £400 -36.00% 1
North East - 1 - - 1
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (13.76%) Apache
2 9 (8.26%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.59%) Confluence
4 4 (3.67%) IIS
4 4 (3.67%) Jupyter
4 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.83%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.83%) Traefik
6 1 (0.92%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 69 (63.30%) Azure
2 40 (36.70%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (35.78%) GitHub
4 20 (18.35%) AWS
5 16 (14.68%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (14.68%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (13.76%) OpenShift
7 13 (11.93%) GCP
8 12 (11.01%) Azure AKS
9 11 (10.09%) Power Platform
10 9 (8.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (8.26%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (7.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (7.34%) SaaS
12 7 (6.42%) Azure API Management
12 7 (6.42%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (6.42%) IaaS
12 7 (6.42%) Serverless
13 6 (5.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.76%) DNS
2 7 (6.42%) Firewall
2 7 (6.42%) Network Security
2 7 (6.42%) SMTP
3 5 (4.59%) BGP
3 5 (4.59%) DHCP
4 4 (3.67%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (3.67%) HTTP
4 4 (3.67%) SSH
4 4 (3.67%) VPN
5 3 (2.75%) FTP
5 3 (2.75%) SSL
5 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.83%) Calico
6 2 (1.83%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.83%) IPv6
6 2 (1.83%) MPLS
6 2 (1.83%) OSPF
6 2 (1.83%) SAN
6 2 (1.83%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.09%) Delta Lake
1 11 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (10.09%) Power BI
2 9 (8.26%) Redis
2 9 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.50%) Apache Hive
4 6 (5.50%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.50%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.75%) Big Data
5 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.75%) Parquet
5 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.92%) MySQL
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (22.02%) Git
2 20 (18.35%) JIRA
3 12 (11.01%) Jenkins
4 10 (9.17%) SonarQube
5 9 (8.26%) GitLab
6 5 (4.59%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.59%) Selenium
7 4 (3.67%) Postman
7 4 (3.67%) RStudio
8 3 (2.75%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.75%) JUnit
8 3 (2.75%) Snyk
9 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.83%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.83%) Gradle
9 2 (1.83%) Maven
9 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.83%) webpack
10 1 (0.92%) Robot Framework
General
1 28 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.09%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Finance
5 6 (5.50%) Law
6 4 (3.67%) Banking
7 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (25.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (12.84%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (10.09%) Data Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) Senior
5 8 (7.34%) Developer
6 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Administrator
9 3 (2.75%) Cloud Specialist
9 3 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Lead
9 3 (2.75%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (1.83%) Automation Developer
10 2 (1.83%) Integration Developer
10 2 (1.83%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.27%) JSON
2 12 (11.01%) PySpark
3 11 (10.09%) .NET
4 10 (9.17%) ADO
5 9 (8.26%) Kafka
5 9 (8.26%) Node.js
6 8 (7.34%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (7.34%) Keycloak
7 7 (6.42%) ARM Templates
7 7 (6.42%) GraphQL
7 7 (6.42%) Playwright
8 6 (5.50%) pydantic
8 6 (5.50%) REST
8 6 (5.50%) Vitest
9 5 (4.59%) XML
10 4 (3.67%) OAuth
11 3 (2.75%) OAuth2
11 3 (2.75%) OpenID
11 3 (2.75%) RESTful
11 3 (2.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.68%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.42%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (5.50%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.59%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.67%) PKI
5 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.75%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) STIX
7 2 (1.83%) YARA
8 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.92%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 29 (26.61%) Linux
2 9 (8.26%) Windows
3 4 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.75%) Unix
5 2 (1.83%) CentOS
6 1 (0.92%) Android
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.92%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (79.82%) DevOps
2 81 (74.31%) CI/CD
3 60 (55.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (50.46%) Agile
5 38 (34.86%) Containerisation
6 30 (27.52%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (19.27%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (19.27%) Test Automation
8 20 (18.35%) DevSecOps
9 19 (17.43%) Scrum
10 18 (16.51%) Observability
11 14 (12.84%) Software Engineering
12 13 (11.93%) Microservices
13 12 (11.01%) Analytics
13 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (10.09%) Mentoring
15 10 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
15 10 (9.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.12%) Python
2 27 (24.77%) Bash
3 26 (23.85%) PowerShell
4 20 (18.35%) Bicep
5 19 (17.43%) SQL
6 10 (9.17%) C#
7 7 (6.42%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.50%) Scala
9 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.59%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.75%) Go
10 3 (2.75%) Java
10 3 (2.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.92%) C++
11 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (32.11%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.77%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.93%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.67%) Degree
5 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.83%) CISSP
6 2 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.83%) GCFA
6 2 (1.83%) GCIA
6 2 (1.83%) GCIH
6 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) NCSC
2 5 (4.59%) GDPR
2 5 (4.59%) QA
3 2 (1.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (36.70%) Docker
2 11 (10.09%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.50%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.83%) Ceph
6 1 (0.92%) etcd
6 1 (0.92%) iptables
6 1 (0.92%) KVM
6 1 (0.92%) Squid
Systems Management
1 54 (49.54%) Kubernetes
2 47 (43.12%) Terraform
3 30 (27.52%) Ansible
4 21 (19.27%) Grafana
5 15 (13.76%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.26%) Packer
7 8 (7.34%) Progress Chef
8 6 (5.50%) Argo
8 6 (5.50%) Puppet
9 3 (2.75%) Podman
10 2 (1.83%) Istio
11 1 (0.92%) Control-M
11 1 (0.92%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.92%) Salt
11 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (14.68%) Databricks
2 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
3 13 (11.93%) Splunk
4 9 (8.26%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.50%) Google
6 5 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.59%) VMware
7 4 (3.67%) Cisco
8 3 (2.75%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.83%) Dell
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle
9 2 (1.83%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.92%) AlgoSec
10 1 (0.92%) Citrix
10 1 (0.92%) Juniper
10 1 (0.92%) NetApp
10 1 (0.92%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.92%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.92%) Virgin Media