YAML Contracts in England

YAML
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring YAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YAML over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 407 350
Rank change year-on-year +12 -57 +223
Contract jobs citing YAML 77 142 350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.38% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.40% 1.89% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 106 245
10th Percentile £359 £416 £458
25th Percentile £457 £498 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £706
90th Percentile £675 £681 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.25
25th Percentile £91.25 - £72.38
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £75.50
75th Percentile £93.75 - £77.38
90th Percentile - - £77.75
UK median hourly rate £92.50 - £75.50
% change year-on-year - - +37.27%

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 5,483 7,520 11,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.40% 20.20% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,358 8,703
10th Percentile £370 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -2.31% +0.09%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 203 141
10th Percentile £30.01 £21.35 £25.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £40.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in England.

Daily rate trend for YAML in England

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 26 April 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 +22 45 £501 -19.92% 50
South East +60 17 £625 +31.58% 19
Midlands +25 6 £600 +60.00% 4
West Midlands +19 6 £600 +60.00% 1
North of England -2 6 £554 +14.18% 4
Yorkshire -4 5 £583 +28.80%
South West +30 4 £625 +19.05% 4
North West +11 1 £525 +2.44% 2
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (19.48%) Apache Spark
2 12 (15.58%) Apache
3 7 (9.09%) Confluence
3 7 (9.09%) SharePoint
4 6 (7.79%) Jupyter
5 3 (3.90%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 56 (72.73%) Azure
2 29 (37.66%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (25.97%) Power Platform
4 16 (20.78%) GitHub
5 11 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 10 (12.99%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
8 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (9.09%) OpenShift
8 7 (9.09%) PowerApps
9 6 (7.79%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (7.79%) SaaS
10 5 (6.49%) Azure Functions
10 5 (6.49%) PaaS
10 5 (6.49%) Serverless
11 4 (5.19%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) DNS
1 7 (9.09%) Firewall
2 6 (7.79%) SSH
3 5 (6.49%) HTTP
3 5 (6.49%) SSL
4 4 (5.19%) BGP
4 4 (5.19%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (5.19%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (5.19%) SAN
5 3 (3.90%) FTP
5 3 (3.90%) SMTP
5 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.60%) DHCP
6 2 (2.60%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (2.60%) IPv6
6 2 (2.60%) MPLS
6 2 (2.60%) OSPF
6 2 (2.60%) TACACS
6 2 (2.60%) VLAN
6 2 (2.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.97%) Power BI
2 12 (15.58%) SQL Server
3 9 (11.69%) Delta Lake
4 8 (10.39%) Apache Hive
4 8 (10.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (7.79%) Oracle Database
6 5 (6.49%) Big Data
7 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.90%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.90%) SSDT
8 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.60%) Parquet
9 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.30%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.30%) Redis
9 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (33.77%) Git
2 18 (23.38%) JIRA
3 9 (11.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.79%) Postman
4 6 (7.79%) RStudio
4 6 (7.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (6.49%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.19%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.19%) Cypress.io
6 4 (5.19%) GitLab
6 4 (5.19%) Newman
6 4 (5.19%) Selenium
6 4 (5.19%) Vagrant
6 4 (5.19%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.60%) Maven
8 2 (2.60%) Moq
8 2 (2.60%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (7.79%) Banking
7 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.60%) Electronics
8 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.60%) Marketing
9 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (31.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Developer
4 8 (10.39%) Senior
5 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Lead
7 4 (5.19%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Site Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Digital Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (28.57%) JSON
2 13 (16.88%) .NET
3 11 (14.29%) PySpark
4 8 (10.39%) pydantic
5 7 (9.09%) XML
6 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.49%) ARM Templates
6 5 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (6.49%) RESTful
7 4 (5.19%) .NET Framework
7 4 (5.19%) CSS
7 4 (5.19%) FastAPI
7 4 (5.19%) HTML
7 4 (5.19%) REST
7 4 (5.19%) SOAP
8 3 (3.90%) ADO
8 3 (3.90%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.90%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.90%) Kafka
8 3 (3.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.69%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (10.39%) Data Structures
3 8 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (9.09%) Reference Data
5 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.30%) CMDB
9 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.30%) Tandem
9 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.17%) Linux
2 5 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.19%) CentOS
3 4 (5.19%) VMS
4 2 (2.60%) Debian
4 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.60%) Unix
4 2 (2.60%) Windows
5 1 (1.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (64.94%) DevOps
2 39 (50.65%) CI/CD
3 29 (37.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (35.06%) Agile
5 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (24.68%) Scrum
7 18 (23.38%) Containerisation
8 16 (20.78%) Test Automation
9 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (11.69%) Analytics
11 9 (11.69%) Observability
12 8 (10.39%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (10.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 8 (10.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
13 7 (9.09%) Data Security
13 7 (9.09%) DevSecOps
13 7 (9.09%) Product Thinking
13 7 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (54.55%) Python
2 28 (36.36%) SQL
3 24 (31.17%) PowerShell
4 16 (20.78%) C#
5 15 (19.48%) Bash
6 14 (18.18%) Bicep
7 10 (12.99%) Shell Script
8 8 (10.39%) Scala
9 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
10 6 (7.79%) PL/SQL
11 4 (5.19%) Java
11 4 (5.19%) PHP
11 4 (5.19%) Rust
11 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
12 3 (3.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.49%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.19%) Degree
4 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) GDPR
2 3 (3.90%) NCSC
3 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.60%) QA
System Software
1 18 (23.38%) Docker
2 4 (5.19%) VirtualBox
2 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.60%) Ceph
3 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (40.26%) Terraform
2 30 (38.96%) Kubernetes
3 16 (20.78%) Ansible
4 10 (12.99%) Puppet
5 7 (9.09%) Grafana
6 4 (5.19%) Argo
6 4 (5.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.19%) Salt
7 3 (3.90%) HAProxy
7 3 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.60%) Nessus
8 2 (2.60%) SCCM
9 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.30%) Packer
9 1 (1.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Databricks
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.39%) Cisco
3 6 (7.79%) Oracle
3 6 (7.79%) VMware
4 5 (6.49%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.49%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.49%) Splunk
5 4 (5.19%) Planview
5 4 (5.19%) Sybase
6 3 (3.90%) UiPath
7 2 (2.60%) Dell
7 2 (2.60%) SAP
7 2 (2.60%) Sophos
8 1 (1.30%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.30%) HP
8 1 (1.30%) IBM
8 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.30%) Virgin Media