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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 411 403
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -70
Contract jobs citing YAML 179 67 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.28% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.29% 1.25% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 50 102
10th Percentile £402 £346 £415
25th Percentile £425 £443 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £512 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% -14.75% +4.35%
75th Percentile £562 £626 £650
90th Percentile £636 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £501 £600
% change year-on-year +1.90% -16.58% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 -
% change year-on-year -48.65% - -

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 7,812 5,375 7,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.23% 22.29% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,180 3,720 5,298
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 99 226
10th Percentile £32.06 £33.25 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 May 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 May 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 -18 81 £541 +5.74% 15
North of England -19 50 £500 +11.11% 8
Yorkshire -21 34 £520 +65.08% 5
Midlands -43 22 £438 -7.89% 4
West Midlands -40 20 £416 -12.42% 2
South East -56 17 £525 -6.67% 12
North West -22 16 £431 -11.59%
East Midlands -29 2 £525 +10.53% 2
South West -34 1 - - 2
East of England - 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 11 (6.15%) Confluence
2 5 (2.79%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.12%) Apache
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (54.19%) Azure
2 53 (29.61%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (17.32%) GitHub
4 29 (16.20%) AWS
5 28 (15.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (10.61%) Entra ID
7 17 (9.50%) GCP
7 17 (9.50%) Power Platform
8 16 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (8.94%) PaaS
9 14 (7.82%) Serverless
10 12 (6.70%) Azure AKS
10 12 (6.70%) Azure Service Fabric
10 12 (6.70%) OpenShift
11 10 (5.59%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (5.59%) Datadog
12 9 (5.03%) Amazon S3
12 9 (5.03%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (4.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.35%) Firewall
2 5 (2.79%) VPN
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
3 2 (1.12%) HTTP
3 2 (1.12%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.56%) Internet
4 1 (0.56%) LAN
4 1 (0.56%) NAS
4 1 (0.56%) SAN
4 1 (0.56%) SSL
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.94%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (8.94%) Metadata
3 14 (7.82%) Power BI
4 11 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.03%) Data Lake
5 9 (5.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (4.47%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.79%) Delta Lake
9 5 (2.79%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.79%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (2.79%) Spark SQL
10 4 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.23%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.23%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (20.67%) Git
2 35 (19.55%) Jenkins
3 29 (16.20%) GitLab
4 18 (10.06%) SonarQube
5 16 (8.94%) JIRA
6 9 (5.03%) Maven
7 7 (3.91%) JUnit
8 6 (3.35%) Mockito
9 5 (2.79%) Postman
10 3 (1.68%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.68%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.12%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.12%) ER Studio
11 2 (1.12%) ERwin
11 2 (1.12%) NUnit
11 2 (1.12%) PowerDesigner
12 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.56%) Serilog
12 1 (0.56%) Snyk
12 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (16.76%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.08%) Finance
3 20 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.70%) Banking
5 9 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.79%) Publishing
8 1 (0.56%) Electronics
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (23.46%) Developer
2 35 (19.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (15.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 26 (14.53%) Data Engineer
5 22 (12.29%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (9.50%) Senior
7 13 (7.26%) Architect
8 11 (6.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Lead
9 8 (4.47%) Azure Data Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Salesforce Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) React Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (2.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.44%) JSON
2 31 (17.32%) Node.js
3 20 (11.17%) ARM Templates
3 20 (11.17%) RESTful
4 17 (9.50%) .NET
4 17 (9.50%) Django
5 16 (8.94%) Entity Framework
5 16 (8.94%) Flask
6 14 (7.82%) XML
7 13 (7.26%) React
8 10 (5.59%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (5.59%) REST
9 9 (5.03%) GraphQL
9 9 (5.03%) Playwright
9 9 (5.03%) Swagger
9 9 (5.03%) Vitest
10 8 (4.47%) SLSA
11 7 (3.91%) OpenAPI
11 7 (3.91%) PySpark
11 7 (3.91%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.68%) Wiki
4 2 (1.12%) Clustering
4 2 (1.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.12%) NHS
4 2 (1.12%) PACS
4 2 (1.12%) STIX
4 2 (1.12%) YARA
5 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.56%) FPGA
5 1 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.20%) Linux
2 9 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (5.03%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.47%) CentOS
4 6 (3.35%) Windows
5 2 (1.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (75.98%) CI/CD
2 126 (70.39%) DevOps
3 57 (31.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (27.93%) Agile
5 34 (18.99%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (17.88%) Containerisation
7 31 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (15.64%) Mentoring
9 24 (13.41%) RBAC
10 22 (12.29%) Software Engineering
11 21 (11.73%) Data Engineering
11 21 (11.73%) Test Automation
12 20 (11.17%) Data Integration
13 19 (10.61%) Data Modelling
13 19 (10.61%) Migration
13 19 (10.61%) Workflow
14 18 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (10.06%) ETL
15 17 (9.50%) Analytics
15 17 (9.50%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 96 (53.63%) Python
2 67 (37.43%) SQL
3 32 (17.88%) PowerShell
4 26 (14.53%) Java
5 22 (12.29%) Bash
5 22 (12.29%) C#
6 20 (11.17%) JavaScript
7 18 (10.06%) Bicep
8 11 (6.15%) TypeScript
9 9 (5.03%) Groovy
9 9 (5.03%) Perl
9 9 (5.03%) Ruby
10 7 (3.91%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.91%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.79%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (2.79%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.23%) R
12 4 (2.23%) Scala
13 3 (1.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.03%) RHCE
4 7 (3.91%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.23%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.12%) CISSP
7 2 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.12%) GCFA
7 2 (1.12%) GCIA
7 2 (1.12%) GCIH
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.03%) QA
3 4 (2.23%) GDPR
4 3 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.12%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (26.26%) Docker
2 15 (8.38%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.12%) HDFS
5 2 (1.12%) Xen
6 1 (0.56%) Firmware
6 1 (0.56%) NFS
6 1 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (30.73%) Terraform
2 42 (23.46%) Ansible
3 32 (17.88%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.38%) Grafana
4 15 (8.38%) Puppet
5 14 (7.82%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (3.91%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.23%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.23%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.12%) Podman
11 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.56%) Istio
11 1 (0.56%) Kibana
11 1 (0.56%) logstash
11 1 (0.56%) Packer
11 1 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 30 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.20%) Red Hat
3 21 (11.73%) Databricks
4 11 (6.15%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.47%) Sonatype
5 8 (4.47%) Veracode
6 5 (2.79%) Splunk
7 4 (2.23%) Google
7 4 (2.23%) NEC
7 4 (2.23%) Oracle
8 3 (1.68%) F5
9 2 (1.12%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.12%) IBM
9 2 (1.12%) OpenText
10 1 (0.56%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.56%) Brocade
10 1 (0.56%) Dell
10 1 (0.56%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.56%) Talend