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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 373 434
Rank change year-on-year -50 +61 +57
Contract jobs citing YAML 119 140 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 2.11% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 85 119
10th Percentile £354 £475 £450
25th Percentile £416 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.32% -2.50% -0.50%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £696 £703
UK median daily rate £503 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -12.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £56.38 -
25th Percentile £100.00 £56.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 £58.75 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.72% -24.68% +40.86%
75th Percentile £110.00 £61.56 £78.75
90th Percentile - £62.13 £85.50
UK median hourly rate £105.00 £58.75 £78.00
% change year-on-year +78.72% -24.68% +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 6,779 6,644 8,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.81% 21.67% 22.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,585 4,235 6,445
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £737 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 94 182
10th Percentile £30.15 £26.33 £36.86
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £73.93 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.60% +13.64% -12.47%

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 11 November 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 11 November 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 -7 68 £475 -13.64% 29
Midlands -29 22 £700 +18.14% 2
West Midlands -34 21 £700 +18.14% 1
South East -3 14 £435 -25.64% 11
South West -5 12 £700 +20.27% 3
North of England -33 7 £410 -29.61% 1
North West -15 5 £420 +1.82%
East of England - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -46 1 £400 -33.19% 1
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 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 7 (5.88%) Apache
2 6 (5.04%) Confluence
3 5 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.20%) IIS
4 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (3.36%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.68%) SAS
5 2 (1.68%) Traefik
6 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (61.34%) Azure
2 46 (38.66%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (36.97%) GitHub
4 24 (20.17%) AWS
5 17 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (13.45%) SaaS
7 14 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (11.76%) GCP
7 14 (11.76%) OpenShift
8 10 (8.40%) Azure AKS
8 10 (8.40%) IaaS
9 9 (7.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (6.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (6.72%) Serverless
11 7 (5.88%) Azure API Management
11 7 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (5.88%) Datadog
12 6 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (5.04%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.40%) DNS
2 8 (6.72%) Firewall
3 7 (5.88%) Network Security
4 5 (4.20%) DHCP
4 5 (4.20%) VPN
5 4 (3.36%) SMTP
6 3 (2.52%) BGP
7 2 (1.68%) Calico
7 2 (1.68%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.68%) MPLS
8 1 (0.84%) HTTP
8 1 (0.84%) IPsec
8 1 (0.84%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.84%) LAN
8 1 (0.84%) MQTT
8 1 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.84%) VLAN
8 1 (0.84%) VRRP
8 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.92%) Redis
3 6 (5.04%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.04%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.36%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.52%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (2.52%) Parquet
5 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.68%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 2 (1.68%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.84%) Big Data
7 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.84%) MySQL
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (16.81%) Jenkins
2 18 (15.13%) Git
3 16 (13.45%) SonarQube
4 14 (11.76%) JIRA
5 13 (10.92%) GitLab
6 9 (7.56%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.20%) Artifactory
7 5 (4.20%) Selenium
8 4 (3.36%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.36%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.36%) Gradle
8 4 (3.36%) JUnit
8 4 (3.36%) Maven
8 4 (3.36%) Postman
8 4 (3.36%) Snyk
8 4 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (3.36%) webpack
9 3 (2.52%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (19.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.40%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.88%) Finance
4 6 (5.04%) Law
5 5 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.52%) Banking
8 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (27.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (12.61%) Developer
3 14 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (10.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 12 (10.08%) Senior
5 10 (8.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Administrator
8 6 (5.04%) Cloud Specialist
9 5 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Consultant
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Technical Consultant
11 3 (2.52%) Oracle Consultant
11 3 (2.52%) Oracle Technical Consultant
11 3 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.52%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.81%) Node.js
2 14 (11.76%) JSON
3 13 (10.92%) GraphQL
4 12 (10.08%) .NET
4 12 (10.08%) Playwright
4 12 (10.08%) Vitest
5 10 (8.40%) ADO
5 10 (8.40%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (8.40%) Kafka
6 9 (7.56%) Keycloak
6 9 (7.56%) REST
7 6 (5.04%) ARM Templates
7 6 (5.04%) Jest
7 6 (5.04%) PySpark
8 5 (4.20%) OAuth
9 4 (3.36%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.36%) .NET Framework
9 4 (3.36%) RESTful
9 4 (3.36%) XML
10 3 (2.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.49%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.36%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.36%) PKI
3 4 (3.36%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.52%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.68%) STIX
5 2 (1.68%) YARA
6 1 (0.84%) CUDA
6 1 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (0.84%) Replication
6 1 (0.84%) Robotics
6 1 (0.84%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.69%) Linux
2 10 (8.40%) Windows
3 5 (4.20%) Unix
3 5 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.68%) CentOS
4 2 (1.68%) VMS
5 1 (0.84%) Android
5 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.84%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (83.19%) DevOps
2 93 (78.15%) CI/CD
3 68 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (50.42%) Agile
5 46 (38.66%) Containerisation
6 29 (24.37%) Test Automation
7 26 (21.85%) DevSecOps
8 25 (21.01%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (15.97%) Software Engineering
10 18 (15.13%) Mentoring
11 16 (13.45%) Observability
12 14 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (11.76%) Scrum
13 12 (10.08%) Coaching
13 12 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (9.24%) Analytics
14 11 (9.24%) Regulatory Compliance
14 11 (9.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (32.77%) Python
2 26 (21.85%) PowerShell
3 25 (21.01%) SQL
4 20 (16.81%) Bash
5 18 (15.13%) Bicep
6 13 (10.92%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.56%) C#
8 4 (3.36%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.36%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.52%) Go
9 3 (2.52%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.68%) Java
10 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.84%) C++
11 1 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (27.73%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.13%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.04%) Degree
5 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.68%) CISSP
6 2 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.68%) GCFA
6 2 (1.68%) GCIA
6 2 (1.68%) GCIH
6 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.24%) NCSC
2 4 (3.36%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.68%) NIST
3 2 (1.68%) WCAG
4 1 (0.84%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 52 (43.70%) Docker
2 11 (9.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.84%) etcd
4 1 (0.84%) iptables
4 1 (0.84%) KVM
4 1 (0.84%) Squid
Systems Management
1 57 (47.90%) Kubernetes
2 49 (41.18%) Terraform
3 30 (25.21%) Ansible
4 21 (17.65%) Grafana
5 18 (15.13%) Prometheus
6 10 (8.40%) Packer
6 10 (8.40%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.88%) Puppet
8 5 (4.20%) Podman
9 3 (2.52%) Argo
10 2 (1.68%) Istio
10 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.84%) Control-M
11 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (13.45%) Splunk
2 14 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.56%) Databricks
4 7 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.20%) Google
5 5 (4.20%) Oracle
5 5 (4.20%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.20%) VMware
6 3 (2.52%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.68%) Cisco
7 2 (1.68%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.84%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.84%) Citrix
8 1 (0.84%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.84%) Juniper
8 1 (0.84%) NetApp
8 1 (0.84%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.84%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.84%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow