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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 420 371
Rank change year-on-year -52 -49 -5
Contract jobs citing YAML 152 95 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.34% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 1.56% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 72 98
10th Percentile £403 £351 £447
25th Percentile £422 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £491 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -18.13% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £638
90th Percentile £698 £679 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £498 £573
% change year-on-year +5.53% -13.10% +4.09%

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 8,443 6,076 7,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.52% 21.99% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,521 4,157 5,030
10th Percentile £364 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 157 227
10th Percentile £28.72 £31.25 £24.67
25th Percentile £46.39 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.93% -6.53%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £55.00
% change year-on-year +19.40% -1.02% -8.33%

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 14 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 14 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 -51 78 £600 +25.65% 35
North of England -41 26 £513 +14.06% 7
Midlands -39 21 £407 -24.45% 5
South East -67 20 £525 +10.53% 13
West Midlands -44 19 £407 -31.77% 3
Yorkshire -22 18 £514 +28.50% 2
North West -39 5 £575 +17.95% 2
South West -49 3 £675 -3.57% 5
North East - 3 £513 - 3
East Midlands -20 2 £525 +7.69% 2
East of England -19 1 £525 - 3
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 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (5.26%) Apache
2 8 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.95%) Confluence
4 4 (2.63%) IIS
4 4 (2.63%) nginx
5 3 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.97%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.66%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 91 (59.87%) Azure
2 70 (46.05%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (34.21%) AWS
4 42 (27.63%) GitHub
5 28 (18.42%) GCP
6 24 (15.79%) Azure AKS
7 21 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (9.87%) Entra ID
10 12 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (7.89%) Power Platform
10 12 (7.89%) Serverless
11 11 (7.24%) Amazon S3
11 11 (7.24%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (7.24%) OCI
12 9 (5.92%) OpenShift
13 7 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (3.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.89%) DNS
2 10 (6.58%) Firewall
3 6 (3.95%) Ethernet VPN
3 6 (3.95%) VXLAN
4 5 (3.29%) BGP
4 5 (3.29%) BIG-IP
4 5 (3.29%) NX-OS
5 4 (2.63%) DHCP
6 3 (1.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.97%) NAS
6 3 (1.97%) Network Security
6 3 (1.97%) SAN
6 3 (1.97%) TACACS
6 3 (1.97%) VPN
7 2 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.32%) DSL
7 2 (1.32%) Internet
7 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.32%) SSL
7 2 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.53%) Metadata
2 14 (9.21%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.92%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.61%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.29%) Data Hub
6 5 (3.29%) Power BI
6 5 (3.29%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.63%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.97%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.97%) MySQL
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.32%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.32%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (26.97%) Git
2 33 (21.71%) Jenkins
3 31 (20.39%) GitLab
4 14 (9.21%) SonarQube
5 13 (8.55%) Maven
6 11 (7.24%) JIRA
7 6 (3.95%) MLflow
8 5 (3.29%) JUnit
8 5 (3.29%) Postman
9 4 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.63%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.63%) Mockito
9 4 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.97%) Selenium
10 3 (1.97%) Snyk
11 2 (1.32%) ER Studio
11 2 (1.32%) ERwin
11 2 (1.32%) NUnit
11 2 (1.32%) PowerDesigner
12 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
General
1 29 (19.08%) Finance
2 27 (17.76%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.89%) Banking
4 11 (7.24%) Publishing
5 8 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.32%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) Electronics
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (26.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
3 23 (15.13%) Developer
4 18 (11.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 17 (11.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (10.53%) Architect
7 14 (9.21%) Data Engineer
8 13 (8.55%) Senior
9 9 (5.92%) Python Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) Azure Data Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) Analyst
12 6 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (3.29%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.29%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 5 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.29%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (23.68%) JSON
2 24 (15.79%) Node.js
3 16 (10.53%) REST
4 15 (9.87%) .NET
4 15 (9.87%) Django
4 15 (9.87%) Flask
5 13 (8.55%) Kafka
6 12 (7.89%) React
7 11 (7.24%) ARM Templates
7 11 (7.24%) SLSA
8 7 (4.61%) .NET Core
8 7 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.95%) .NET Framework
9 6 (3.95%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.95%) Entity Framework
9 6 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (3.29%) RESTful
10 5 (3.29%) Spring
10 5 (3.29%) Spring Boot
11 4 (2.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (5.92%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.32%) Clustering
6 2 (1.32%) CMDB
6 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.32%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.66%) STIX
7 1 (0.66%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.39%) Linux
2 15 (9.87%) Windows
3 7 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.95%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.63%) CentOS
5 4 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.97%) Unix
7 2 (1.32%) VMS
7 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.32%) zOS
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (67.76%) CI/CD
1 103 (67.76%) DevOps
2 57 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (23.68%) Agile
4 35 (23.03%) Containerisation
5 29 (19.08%) DevSecOps
6 26 (17.11%) Analytics
7 25 (16.45%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (16.45%) Test Automation
8 24 (15.79%) Observability
9 22 (14.47%) AI
10 20 (13.16%) Workflow
11 19 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 19 (12.50%) GitOps
11 19 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
11 19 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (11.84%) Migration
12 18 (11.84%) Performance Tuning
13 17 (11.18%) Configuration Management
13 17 (11.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 97 (63.82%) Python
2 44 (28.95%) SQL
3 43 (28.29%) PowerShell
4 38 (25.00%) Bash
5 20 (13.16%) Bicep
5 20 (13.16%) Java
6 15 (9.87%) C#
6 15 (9.87%) JavaScript
7 12 (7.89%) Groovy
8 7 (4.61%) Scala
9 5 (3.29%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.29%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.29%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.97%) Perl
10 3 (1.97%) R
11 2 (1.32%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.32%) Cypher
11 2 (1.32%) JCL
11 2 (1.32%) REXX
11 2 (1.32%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 32 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 25 (16.45%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.63%) Degree
4 4 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.97%) CISSP
5 3 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) CCIE
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.66%) CCNP
7 1 (0.66%) CISM
7 1 (0.66%) GCFA
7 1 (0.66%) GCIA
7 1 (0.66%) GCIH
7 1 (0.66%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.95%) QA
2 5 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.63%) NIST
4 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.32%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (26.97%) Docker
2 14 (9.21%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.97%) Dovecot
6 3 (1.97%) Postfix
6 3 (1.97%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.32%) NFS
7 2 (1.32%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (48.03%) Terraform
2 58 (38.16%) Kubernetes
3 36 (23.68%) Ansible
4 11 (7.24%) Grafana
5 9 (5.92%) Puppet
6 8 (5.26%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (4.61%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.29%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (2.63%) Data Guard
9 4 (2.63%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.97%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.32%) Argo
11 2 (1.32%) Control-M
11 2 (1.32%) Podman
11 2 (1.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.66%) Istio
12 1 (0.66%) systemd
Vendors
1 27 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.50%) Google
3 15 (9.87%) Databricks
4 12 (7.89%) Red Hat
4 12 (7.89%) Sonatype
5 10 (6.58%) F5
6 9 (5.92%) Cisco
7 8 (5.26%) VMware
8 7 (4.61%) ServiceNow
9 5 (3.29%) Infoblox
9 5 (3.29%) Oracle
10 4 (2.63%) Splunk
11 3 (1.97%) IBM
11 3 (1.97%) Juniper
11 3 (1.97%) NEC
12 2 (1.32%) Citrix
12 2 (1.32%) Dell
12 2 (1.32%) Informatica
12 2 (1.32%) OpenText
12 2 (1.32%) Salesforce