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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 410 380
Rank change year-on-year -70 -30 +15
Contract jobs citing YAML 143 109 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 1.54% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 77 91
10th Percentile £403 £350 £475
25th Percentile £483 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £618 £638
90th Percentile £709 £700 £690
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £579
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.57% +0.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.25 £100.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £92.50 £105.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +75.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £93.75 £110.00 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £87.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.71% +45.83% -23.08%

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 9,806 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,437 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 169 179
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £51.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.35% -11.20% -1.44%

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 18 September 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 18 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
London -63 74 £615 +29.47% 54
North of England -47 23 £513 +20.59% 14
Yorkshire -20 18 £514 +28.58% 4
South East -62 16 £525 +15.38% 14
Midlands -48 15 £450 -27.18% 12
West Midlands -46 13 £413 -41.07% 6
South West -37 6 £674 -3.79% 6
North East -43 4 £513 - 3
East Midlands -15 2 £475 -2.56% 6
East of England -29 1 £525 - 7
North West -52 1 £500 +11.11% 7
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 8 (5.59%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.90%) Apache
2 7 (4.90%) Confluence
3 5 (3.50%) nginx
4 4 (2.80%) IIS
5 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.10%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 75 (52.45%) Azure
2 63 (44.06%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (37.06%) AWS
4 51 (35.66%) GitHub
5 28 (19.58%) GCP
6 27 (18.88%) Azure AKS
7 23 (16.08%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (11.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (11.19%) Entra ID
9 13 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (8.39%) Power Platform
11 11 (7.69%) Serverless
12 10 (6.99%) Amazon S3
12 10 (6.99%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (6.99%) OCI
13 9 (6.29%) OpenShift
14 7 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (4.90%) Azure Databricks
14 7 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (4.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.79%) BGP
2 12 (8.39%) DNS
2 12 (8.39%) Ethernet VPN
2 12 (8.39%) Firewall
2 12 (8.39%) VXLAN
3 11 (7.69%) NX-OS
4 8 (5.59%) TACACS
5 5 (3.50%) BIG-IP
5 5 (3.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (3.50%) NAS
5 5 (3.50%) Network Security
6 4 (2.80%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (2.80%) DHCP
6 4 (2.80%) VPN
7 3 (2.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (2.10%) OSPF
7 3 (2.10%) SAN
7 3 (2.10%) SSL
8 2 (1.40%) DSL
8 2 (1.40%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.49%) Metadata
2 12 (8.39%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.29%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.50%) Data Hub
5 5 (3.50%) Power BI
5 5 (3.50%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (2.80%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.10%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.10%) MySQL
7 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.40%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.40%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.40%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (32.87%) Git
2 36 (25.17%) GitLab
3 27 (18.88%) Jenkins
4 14 (9.79%) SonarQube
5 12 (8.39%) Maven
6 10 (6.99%) JIRA
7 7 (4.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (4.20%) MLflow
9 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.10%) JUnit
10 3 (2.10%) Postman
10 3 (2.10%) Selenium
10 3 (2.10%) Snyk
11 2 (1.40%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.40%) ER Studio
11 2 (1.40%) ERwin
11 2 (1.40%) Mockito
11 2 (1.40%) NUnit
11 2 (1.40%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (22.38%) Finance
1 32 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.69%) Banking
3 10 (6.99%) Publishing
4 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.10%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.40%) Law
8 1 (0.70%) Electronics
8 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (34.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (18.88%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (14.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 20 (13.99%) Architect
5 14 (9.79%) Senior
6 9 (6.29%) Consultant
6 9 (6.29%) Python Engineer
7 8 (5.59%) Data Engineer
7 8 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.59%) Network Engineer
7 8 (5.59%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (5.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.90%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) Analyst
9 6 (4.20%) Developer
9 6 (4.20%) Network Architect
10 5 (3.50%) Automation Architect
10 5 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.50%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (55.94%) Terraform
2 44 (30.77%) JSON
3 18 (12.59%) REST
4 16 (11.19%) ARM Templates
5 13 (9.09%) Node.js
6 12 (8.39%) Kafka
7 10 (6.99%) .NET
7 10 (6.99%) SLSA
8 5 (3.50%) Flask
8 5 (3.50%) React
9 4 (2.80%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.80%) RESTful
9 4 (2.80%) Spring
9 4 (2.80%) Spring Boot
10 3 (2.10%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.10%) Django
10 3 (2.10%) Entity Framework
10 3 (2.10%) LAMP
10 3 (2.10%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.89%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.19%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.50%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.40%) Clustering
8 2 (1.40%) CMDB
8 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.40%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.40%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.70%) FPGA
9 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.58%) Linux
2 15 (10.49%) Windows
3 6 (4.20%) Ubuntu
3 6 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.50%) VMS
5 4 (2.80%) CentOS
6 3 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.10%) Unix
7 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.40%) zOS
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (71.33%) CI/CD
2 94 (65.73%) DevOps
3 63 (44.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (25.87%) Containerisation
5 33 (23.08%) Agile
6 29 (20.28%) DevSecOps
7 27 (18.88%) Test Automation
8 26 (18.18%) GitOps
8 26 (18.18%) Migration
8 26 (18.18%) Observability
9 25 (17.48%) Analytics
9 25 (17.48%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (16.78%) Infrastructure Automation
11 23 (16.08%) AI
12 21 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (14.69%) Validation
13 19 (13.29%) Data Modelling
14 18 (12.59%) Configuration Management
14 18 (12.59%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (12.59%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 97 (67.83%) Python
2 49 (34.27%) PowerShell
3 41 (28.67%) Bash
4 31 (21.68%) SQL
5 24 (16.78%) Bicep
6 19 (13.29%) Java
7 10 (6.99%) Groovy
8 8 (5.59%) C#
9 7 (4.90%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.90%) Scala
9 7 (4.90%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.80%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.10%) Perl
11 3 (2.10%) R
12 2 (1.40%) Cypher
12 2 (1.40%) JCL
12 2 (1.40%) REXX
12 2 (1.40%) SHACL
12 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.70%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.50%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.80%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.10%) CCIE
6 3 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.40%) CISSP
7 2 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.70%) CCNP
8 1 (0.70%) CISM
8 1 (0.70%) CRISC
8 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) QA
2 4 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.10%) NIST
4 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (32.17%) Docker
2 13 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.90%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.10%) Dovecot
7 3 (2.10%) Postfix
8 2 (1.40%) NFS
8 2 (1.40%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (41.96%) Kubernetes
2 46 (32.17%) Ansible
3 15 (10.49%) Grafana
4 8 (5.59%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.59%) Puppet
5 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (4.20%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.50%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.80%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.80%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.80%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (2.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.40%) Argo
10 2 (1.40%) Control-M
10 2 (1.40%) Podman
10 2 (1.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.70%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.99%) Cisco
3 19 (13.29%) Google
4 17 (11.89%) Databricks
5 16 (11.19%) Red Hat
6 14 (9.79%) VMware
7 13 (9.09%) ServiceNow
8 11 (7.69%) Sonatype
9 9 (6.29%) F5
10 7 (4.90%) Infoblox
11 6 (4.20%) Splunk
12 5 (3.50%) Juniper
12 5 (3.50%) Oracle
12 5 (3.50%) Palo Alto
13 3 (2.10%) NEC
14 2 (1.40%) Citrix
14 2 (1.40%) Dell
14 2 (1.40%) IBM
14 2 (1.40%) Informatica
14 2 (1.40%) OpenText