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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 426 388
Rank change year-on-year -31 -38 -24
Contract jobs citing YAML 162 84 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.31% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 1.39% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 64 97
10th Percentile £402 £346 £463
25th Percentile £425 £416 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £585
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -18.33% +1.74%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £650
90th Percentile £654 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £483 £575
% change year-on-year +6.64% -16.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £92.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £81.25 -

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 8,486 6,048 7,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.25% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,581 4,154 5,423
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £430 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.70% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 140 256
10th Percentile £30.20 £31.20 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.94 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -10.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -40 73 £563 +17.80% 5
North of England -47 39 £468 +10.12% 1
Yorkshire -31 23 £507 +41.82%
Midlands -50 21 £407 -16.51% 3
South East -58 21 £525 +9.83% 3
West Midlands -46 19 £407 -16.73% 2
North West -37 16 £431 -11.59%
East Midlands -11 2 £525 +7.69% 1
South West -29 2 - - 1
East of England -21 1 £525 -
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 12 (7.41%) Confluence
2 7 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.09%) Apache
4 4 (2.47%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.85%) IIS
5 3 (1.85%) nginx
5 3 (1.85%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.62%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 93 (57.41%) Azure
2 64 (39.51%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (26.54%) AWS
4 33 (20.37%) GitHub
5 23 (14.20%) GCP
6 22 (13.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (12.96%) Azure AKS
8 17 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (9.88%) Entra ID
9 16 (9.88%) Power Platform
10 14 (8.64%) Azure Key Vault
10 14 (8.64%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (8.64%) Serverless
11 11 (6.79%) Amazon S3
12 9 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (4.94%) OpenShift
14 7 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (4.32%) OCI
15 6 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.94%) DNS
2 7 (4.32%) Firewall
3 3 (1.85%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.85%) NAS
3 3 (1.85%) SAN
4 2 (1.23%) DSL
4 2 (1.23%) Internet
4 2 (1.23%) Network Security
4 2 (1.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.62%) DHCP
5 1 (0.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.62%) SSH
5 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.49%) Data Warehouse
1 17 (10.49%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.26%) Metadata
3 11 (6.79%) Data Lake
3 11 (6.79%) Power BI
4 6 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.09%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.47%) Data Hub
6 4 (2.47%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.47%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.85%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (24.07%) Git
2 37 (22.84%) GitLab
3 30 (18.52%) Jenkins
4 20 (12.35%) SonarQube
5 18 (11.11%) JIRA
6 10 (6.17%) Maven
7 8 (4.94%) JUnit
7 8 (4.94%) Mockito
8 6 (3.70%) MLflow
9 5 (3.09%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.09%) Postman
10 3 (1.85%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.85%) NUnit
11 2 (1.23%) ER Studio
11 2 (1.23%) ERwin
11 2 (1.23%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (1.23%) Selenium
12 1 (0.62%) git-flow
12 1 (0.62%) Snyk
12 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (20.99%) Finance
2 26 (16.05%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.88%) Banking
4 15 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.32%) Publishing
7 6 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.23%) Law
10 1 (0.62%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 37 (22.84%) Developer
2 33 (20.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (13.58%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (12.35%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (9.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 16 (9.88%) Data Engineer
6 13 (8.02%) Architect
7 12 (7.41%) Senior
8 8 (4.94%) .NET Developer
8 8 (4.94%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) Analyst
9 7 (4.32%) Lead
10 6 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Salesforce Developer
11 5 (3.09%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 5 (3.09%) React Developer
11 5 (3.09%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (19.75%) JSON
2 23 (14.20%) Node.js
3 20 (12.35%) RESTful
4 17 (10.49%) Django
5 16 (9.88%) .NET
5 16 (9.88%) Flask
6 14 (8.64%) React
6 14 (8.64%) REST
7 11 (6.79%) Kafka
8 10 (6.17%) ARM Templates
8 10 (6.17%) SLSA
9 9 (5.56%) Swagger
10 8 (4.94%) Entity Framework
11 7 (4.32%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.32%) OpenAPI
11 7 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (4.32%) SOAP
11 7 (4.32%) XML
12 6 (3.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.47%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.85%) Wiki
6 2 (1.23%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.23%) Clustering
6 2 (1.23%) CMDB
6 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.23%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.62%) FPGA
7 1 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.58%) Linux
2 12 (7.41%) Windows
3 5 (3.09%) CentOS
3 5 (3.09%) Ubuntu
3 5 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.23%) Unix
5 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 97 (59.88%) DevOps
3 48 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (27.78%) Agile
5 33 (20.37%) Containerisation
6 25 (15.43%) Test Automation
7 24 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (14.20%) DevSecOps
9 22 (13.58%) Analytics
10 21 (12.96%) Observability
10 21 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (12.35%) Data Modelling
12 19 (11.73%) Infrastructure Automation
12 19 (11.73%) Workflow
13 18 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (11.11%) ETL
13 18 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (10.49%) Data Integration
15 16 (9.88%) Continuous Integration
15 16 (9.88%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 89 (54.94%) Python
2 51 (31.48%) SQL
3 41 (25.31%) PowerShell
4 32 (19.75%) Bash
5 31 (19.14%) Java
6 22 (13.58%) Bicep
6 22 (13.58%) C#
7 16 (9.88%) JavaScript
8 11 (6.79%) Groovy
9 7 (4.32%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.70%) Apex Code
11 5 (3.09%) PL/SQL
11 5 (3.09%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.47%) Scala
12 4 (2.47%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (1.23%) Cypher
14 2 (1.23%) Go
14 2 (1.23%) R
14 2 (1.23%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 31 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.32%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.85%) CISSP
5 3 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.23%) RHCE
7 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.62%) CISM
7 1 (0.62%) CRISC
7 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.62%) Degree
7 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) GCFA
7 1 (0.62%) GCIA
7 1 (0.62%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.94%) QA
2 6 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.47%) GDPR
4 3 (1.85%) NIST
5 2 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.23%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.62%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (22.84%) Docker
2 12 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.85%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.85%) Postfix
5 3 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.23%) NFS
6 2 (1.23%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (39.51%) Terraform
2 45 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 32 (19.75%) Ansible
4 9 (5.56%) Grafana
5 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.70%) Puppet
6 5 (3.09%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (3.09%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.47%) Data Guard
7 4 (2.47%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (1.85%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.23%) Argo
9 2 (1.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.62%) Istio
10 1 (0.62%) Podman
10 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.11%) Google
3 14 (8.64%) Databricks
4 12 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 10 (6.17%) Red Hat
5 10 (6.17%) Sonatype
6 8 (4.94%) Veracode
7 6 (3.70%) F5
8 4 (2.47%) NEC
8 4 (2.47%) Oracle
8 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.47%) Splunk
9 3 (1.85%) Cisco
9 3 (1.85%) IBM
9 3 (1.85%) Juniper
9 3 (1.85%) VMware
10 2 (1.23%) Citrix
10 2 (1.23%) Dell
10 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.23%) OpenText