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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 401 399
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing YAML 166 87 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.33% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.28% 1.48% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 50 123
10th Percentile £381 £475 £440
25th Percentile £428 £516 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £614 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% +2.29% -4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £674 £665
90th Percentile £700 £706 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £613 £576
% change year-on-year -16.33% +6.34% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile - £56.63 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £57.19 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £76.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.70% -2.24% +40.86%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £73.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £76.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year -37.70% -2.24% +40.86%

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 7,282 5,867 7,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.81% 22.40% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,885 3,763 5,638
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £659 £661
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 75 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.35 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.38 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £76.26 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 8 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for YAML in England

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 8 February 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 -2 81 £525 -4.55% 22
North of England -26 43 £500 -16.49% 8
Yorkshire -34 25 £525 -12.32% 2
West Midlands -32 20 £659 -9.10% 3
Midlands -35 20 £659 -9.10% 4
North West -11 17 £420 - 6
South West -6 13 £700 +14.29% 2
South East -35 12 £435 -30.95% 15
East of England - 1 - -
North East - 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 15 (9.04%) Confluence
2 8 (4.82%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.20%) SAS
5 2 (1.20%) Traefik
6 1 (0.60%) CMS
6 1 (0.60%) IIS
6 1 (0.60%) nginx
6 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (48.80%) Azure
2 38 (22.89%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (20.48%) GitHub
4 26 (15.66%) AWS
5 19 (11.45%) Entra ID
6 17 (10.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (9.64%) PaaS
7 16 (9.64%) SaaS
8 15 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (7.83%) Datadog
9 13 (7.83%) IaaS
9 13 (7.83%) OpenShift
9 13 (7.83%) Serverless
10 12 (7.23%) Power Platform
11 11 (6.63%) Azure Service Fabric
11 11 (6.63%) GCP
12 10 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (4.82%) Azure AKS
14 8 (4.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) Firewall
1 6 (3.61%) VPN
2 5 (3.01%) DNS
3 3 (1.81%) DHCP
3 3 (1.81%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.20%) Calico
4 2 (1.20%) HTTP
4 2 (1.20%) LAN
4 2 (1.20%) WAN
5 1 (0.60%) BGP
5 1 (0.60%) IPsec
5 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) VLAN
5 1 (0.60%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.63%) Power BI
3 11 (6.63%) Relational Database
4 10 (6.02%) Metadata
5 8 (4.82%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (4.22%) Delta Lake
6 7 (4.22%) Redis
6 7 (4.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.61%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.01%) Big Data
8 5 (3.01%) Spark SQL
9 4 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.41%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.81%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.81%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (22.29%) Jenkins
2 28 (16.87%) GitLab
3 27 (16.27%) SonarQube
4 26 (15.66%) Git
5 20 (12.05%) JIRA
6 8 (4.82%) JUnit
7 7 (4.22%) Maven
8 6 (3.61%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.61%) Postman
9 5 (3.01%) CircleCI
9 5 (3.01%) Selenium
10 4 (2.41%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.41%) Gradle
10 4 (2.41%) Mockito
10 4 (2.41%) Snyk
10 4 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (2.41%) webpack
11 3 (1.81%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (16.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.83%) Finance
4 11 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.61%) Banking
7 1 (0.60%) Law
7 1 (0.60%) Publishing
7 1 (0.60%) Retail
7 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (21.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (17.47%) Developer
3 20 (12.05%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (12.05%) Data Engineer
4 15 (9.04%) Senior
5 13 (7.83%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (6.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 10 (6.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.02%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.42%) Architect
8 9 (5.42%) Lead
9 8 (4.82%) Cloud Specialist
10 7 (4.22%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Administrator
11 6 (3.61%) Salesforce Developer
11 6 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.01%) Support Engineer
13 4 (2.41%) Project Manager
13 4 (2.41%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.67%) Node.js
2 26 (15.66%) JSON
3 19 (11.45%) GraphQL
3 19 (11.45%) Playwright
3 19 (11.45%) Vitest
4 16 (9.64%) RESTful
5 15 (9.04%) ARM Templates
6 14 (8.43%) .NET
7 13 (7.83%) Entity Framework
7 13 (7.83%) XML
8 11 (6.63%) PySpark
9 9 (5.42%) Kafka
9 9 (5.42%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (5.42%) REST
10 8 (4.82%) Swagger
11 7 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.22%) OpenAPI
11 7 (4.22%) SailPoint
12 6 (3.61%) Jest
12 6 (3.61%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.87%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.42%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.41%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.41%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.20%) NHS
5 2 (1.20%) PACS
5 2 (1.20%) Wiki
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (0.60%) Replication
6 1 (0.60%) STIX
6 1 (0.60%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.88%) Linux
2 9 (5.42%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.82%) CentOS
3 8 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.82%) Windows
4 4 (2.41%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.81%) VMS
6 2 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (81.33%) CI/CD
2 122 (73.49%) DevOps
3 70 (42.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (38.55%) Agile
5 43 (25.90%) Containerisation
6 36 (21.69%) Mentoring
7 32 (19.28%) Software Engineering
7 32 (19.28%) Test Automation
8 28 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 28 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (14.46%) DevSecOps
10 23 (13.86%) RBAC
11 22 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (12.65%) Data Engineering
12 21 (12.65%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (11.45%) Coaching
14 17 (10.24%) API Design
14 17 (10.24%) ITSM
15 16 (9.64%) E-Commerce
16 15 (9.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 63 (37.95%) Python
2 51 (30.72%) SQL
3 23 (13.86%) TypeScript
4 22 (13.25%) Java
5 19 (11.45%) PowerShell
6 14 (8.43%) C#
7 13 (7.83%) Bash
8 11 (6.63%) Bicep
8 11 (6.63%) JavaScript
9 9 (5.42%) Ruby
10 8 (4.82%) Perl
11 5 (3.01%) R
11 5 (3.01%) Scala
11 5 (3.01%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.01%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.41%) Apex Code
12 4 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (2.41%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.81%) Groovy
13 3 (1.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 51 (30.72%) Security Cleared
2 42 (25.30%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.83%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.82%) RHCE
5 6 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.01%) Degree
7 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CISSP
9 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.60%) GCFA
9 1 (0.60%) GCIA
9 1 (0.60%) GCIH
9 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.02%) NCSC
2 9 (5.42%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.82%) QA
4 3 (1.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (1.81%) GDPR
5 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.20%) WCAG
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (39.76%) Docker
2 15 (9.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) HDFS
3 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.20%) Xen
4 1 (0.60%) etcd
4 1 (0.60%) KVM
4 1 (0.60%) Squid
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (30.12%) Kubernetes
2 48 (28.92%) Terraform
3 36 (21.69%) Ansible
4 22 (13.25%) Grafana
5 18 (10.84%) Prometheus
6 13 (7.83%) Puppet
7 8 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (3.61%) Progress Chef
10 5 (3.01%) Packer
10 5 (3.01%) Podman
11 2 (1.20%) Argo
11 2 (1.20%) Istio
12 1 (0.60%) Control-M
12 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.60%) Kibana
12 1 (0.60%) logstash
12 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (17.47%) Red Hat
2 26 (15.66%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.04%) Databricks
4 12 (7.23%) Salesforce
5 10 (6.02%) Splunk
6 8 (4.82%) Veracode
7 5 (3.01%) Oracle
8 3 (1.81%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.81%) Sonatype
9 2 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.60%) AlgoSec
10 1 (0.60%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.60%) Google
10 1 (0.60%) Juniper
10 1 (0.60%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.60%) NetApp
10 1 (0.60%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.60%) Talend
10 1 (0.60%) VMware