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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 408 364
Rank change year-on-year -61 -44 -7
Contract jobs citing YAML 158 90 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.33% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 1.31% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 67 96
10th Percentile £403 £350 £472
25th Percentile £439 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £478 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.46% -20.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £639
90th Percentile £705 £684 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £478 £582
% change year-on-year +9.83% -17.87% +5.82%

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 9,820 6,845 8,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.51% 24.80% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,713 5,613
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 162 213
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.04
25th Percentile £50.88 £41.82 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -6.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.91 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -12.00%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

YAML job vacancy trend 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 20 August 2026.

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 20 August 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
London -43 83 £613 +28.95% 14
North of England -33 26 £513 +14.06% 3
Midlands -45 22 £410 -23.94% 9
South East -55 19 £525 +10.53% 6
Yorkshire -23 18 £514 +28.50%
West Midlands -46 18 £407 -31.77% 6
North West -33 5 £575 +17.95% 1
East Midlands -15 4 £475 -2.56% 3
South West -39 4 £674 -3.68% 4
North East - 3 £513 - 2
East of England -19 1 £525 - 1
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 9 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (5.06%) Apache
2 8 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.80%) Confluence
4 4 (2.53%) IIS
4 4 (2.53%) nginx
5 3 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.63%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 94 (59.49%) Azure
2 74 (46.84%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (32.91%) AWS
4 48 (30.38%) GitHub
5 29 (18.35%) Azure AKS
6 28 (17.72%) GCP
7 22 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (13.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (10.13%) Entra ID
10 15 (9.49%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (9.49%) Serverless
11 12 (7.59%) Power Platform
12 11 (6.96%) Amazon S3
12 11 (6.96%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (6.96%) OCI
13 9 (5.70%) OpenShift
14 8 (5.06%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (4.43%) Azure Functions
15 7 (4.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.59%) DNS
2 11 (6.96%) Firewall
3 9 (5.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 9 (5.70%) VXLAN
4 8 (5.06%) BGP
4 8 (5.06%) NX-OS
5 5 (3.16%) BIG-IP
6 4 (2.53%) DHCP
6 4 (2.53%) TACACS
7 3 (1.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.90%) NAS
7 3 (1.90%) Network Security
7 3 (1.90%) SAN
7 3 (1.90%) VPN
8 2 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.27%) DSL
8 2 (1.27%) Internet
8 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.27%) SSL
8 2 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.13%) Metadata
2 14 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.70%) Data Lake
3 9 (5.70%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.16%) Data Hub
6 5 (3.16%) Power BI
6 5 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.90%) MySQL
8 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (29.75%) Git
2 35 (22.15%) GitLab
3 34 (21.52%) Jenkins
4 15 (9.49%) SonarQube
5 13 (8.23%) Maven
6 11 (6.96%) JIRA
7 6 (3.80%) MLflow
8 5 (3.16%) JUnit
8 5 (3.16%) Postman
9 4 (2.53%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.53%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.53%) Mockito
9 4 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.90%) Selenium
10 3 (1.90%) Snyk
11 2 (1.27%) ER Studio
11 2 (1.27%) ERwin
11 2 (1.27%) NUnit
11 2 (1.27%) PowerDesigner
12 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
General
1 33 (20.89%) Finance
2 31 (19.62%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.59%) Banking
4 11 (6.96%) Publishing
5 8 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.90%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Electronics
9 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (28.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (18.35%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (13.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 19 (12.03%) Developer
5 17 (10.76%) Architect
6 15 (9.49%) Senior
7 14 (8.86%) Data Engineer
8 13 (8.23%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (5.70%) Python Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Azure Data Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Consultant
11 7 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Analyst
13 5 (3.16%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.16%) Network Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (3.16%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (50.63%) Terraform
2 40 (25.32%) JSON
3 21 (13.29%) Node.js
4 19 (12.03%) REST
5 15 (9.49%) .NET
6 14 (8.86%) ARM Templates
6 14 (8.86%) Kafka
7 11 (6.96%) Django
7 11 (6.96%) Flask
7 11 (6.96%) SLSA
8 10 (6.33%) React
9 7 (4.43%) .NET Core
9 7 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.80%) .NET Framework
10 6 (3.80%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.80%) Entity Framework
10 6 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (3.80%) RESTful
11 5 (3.16%) Spring
11 5 (3.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.59%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.59%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.27%) Clustering
6 2 (1.27%) CMDB
6 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.27%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.63%) STIX
7 1 (0.63%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.99%) Linux
2 15 (9.49%) Windows
3 7 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.80%) Ubuntu
5 5 (3.16%) VMS
6 4 (2.53%) CentOS
6 4 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.90%) Unix
8 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.27%) zOS
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (70.25%) CI/CD
2 107 (67.72%) DevOps
3 66 (41.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (24.05%) Agile
4 38 (24.05%) Containerisation
5 32 (20.25%) DevSecOps
6 29 (18.35%) Analytics
6 29 (18.35%) Test Automation
7 27 (17.09%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (15.82%) Observability
9 23 (14.56%) AI
9 23 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (13.92%) Infrastructure Automation
11 21 (13.29%) Data Modelling
11 21 (13.29%) GitOps
11 21 (13.29%) Migration
12 20 (12.66%) Validation
13 18 (11.39%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (11.39%) Workflow
14 17 (10.76%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (63.92%) Python
2 50 (31.65%) PowerShell
3 43 (27.22%) SQL
4 40 (25.32%) Bash
5 24 (15.19%) Bicep
6 20 (12.66%) Java
7 15 (9.49%) C#
8 12 (7.59%) Groovy
8 12 (7.59%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.43%) Scala
10 5 (3.16%) PL/SQL
10 5 (3.16%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.16%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.90%) Perl
11 3 (1.90%) R
12 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.27%) Cypher
12 2 (1.27%) JCL
12 2 (1.27%) REXX
12 2 (1.27%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 34 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.70%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.16%) Degree
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.90%) CISSP
6 3 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.27%) CCIE
7 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.63%) CCNP
8 1 (0.63%) CISM
8 1 (0.63%) GCFA
8 1 (0.63%) GCIA
8 1 (0.63%) GCIH
8 1 (0.63%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.06%) QA
2 5 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.53%) NIST
4 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (29.11%) Docker
2 14 (8.86%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.53%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.90%) Dovecot
6 3 (1.90%) Postfix
7 2 (1.27%) NFS
7 2 (1.27%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (41.14%) Kubernetes
2 39 (24.68%) Ansible
3 14 (8.86%) Grafana
4 9 (5.70%) Puppet
5 8 (5.06%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (4.43%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.16%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.53%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.53%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.90%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.27%) Argo
10 2 (1.27%) Control-M
10 2 (1.27%) Podman
10 2 (1.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.63%) Istio
11 1 (0.63%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.66%) Databricks
3 19 (12.03%) Google
4 15 (9.49%) Red Hat
5 12 (7.59%) Cisco
5 12 (7.59%) Sonatype
6 10 (6.33%) ServiceNow
7 9 (5.70%) F5
7 9 (5.70%) VMware
8 5 (3.16%) Infoblox
8 5 (3.16%) Oracle
9 4 (2.53%) Splunk
10 3 (1.90%) IBM
10 3 (1.90%) Juniper
11 2 (1.27%) Brocade
11 2 (1.27%) Citrix
11 2 (1.27%) Dell
11 2 (1.27%) Informatica
11 2 (1.27%) OpenText
11 2 (1.27%) Salesforce