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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 385 411
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing YAML 160 102 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.38% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.25% 1.72% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 63 115
10th Percentile £381 £475 £430
25th Percentile £431 £500 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +2.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £673 £653
90th Percentile £700 £703 £696
UK median daily rate £513 £591 £576
% change year-on-year -13.32% +2.65% -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 7,122 5,944 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.98% 22.29% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 3,787 5,697
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £427 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £662
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 78 182
10th Percentile £34.20 £26.25 £26.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -3 80 £519 -5.68% 16
North of England -21 40 £500 -16.49% 12
Yorkshire -28 23 £525 -12.32% 4
Midlands -31 22 £659 -1.42% 8
West Midlands -32 22 £659 -1.42% 5
North West -12 16 £420 - 8
South West -3 14 £700 +14.29% 3
South East -30 9 £430 -31.75% 9
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 13 (8.13%) Confluence
2 9 (5.63%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.25%) SAS
5 2 (1.25%) Traefik
6 1 (0.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.63%) IIS
6 1 (0.63%) nginx
6 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.63%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (48.75%) Azure
2 37 (23.13%) Azure DevOps
2 37 (23.13%) GitHub
3 29 (18.13%) AWS
4 17 (10.63%) Entra ID
5 16 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (10.00%) SaaS
6 15 (9.38%) GCP
7 14 (8.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (8.75%) Datadog
7 14 (8.75%) PaaS
8 13 (8.13%) OpenShift
9 12 (7.50%) IaaS
9 12 (7.50%) Serverless
10 10 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (5.63%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (5.63%) Azure Service Fabric
11 9 (5.63%) Power Platform
12 8 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.38%) Firewall
2 6 (3.75%) VPN
3 5 (3.13%) DNS
4 3 (1.88%) DHCP
4 3 (1.88%) HTTP
4 3 (1.88%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.25%) Calico
5 2 (1.25%) LAN
5 2 (1.25%) WAN
6 1 (0.63%) BGP
6 1 (0.63%) IPsec
6 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.63%) VLAN
6 1 (0.63%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.63%) Metadata
4 8 (5.00%) Power BI
5 7 (4.38%) Delta Lake
5 7 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.38%) Redis
6 5 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.13%) Big Data
6 5 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.13%) Spark SQL
6 5 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.88%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (1.88%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 26 (16.25%) GitLab
3 25 (15.63%) SonarQube
4 23 (14.38%) Git
5 18 (11.25%) JIRA
6 9 (5.63%) Cypress.io
6 9 (5.63%) JUnit
7 7 (4.38%) Maven
7 7 (4.38%) Postman
8 6 (3.75%) CircleCI
8 6 (3.75%) Selenium
9 5 (3.13%) Artifactory
9 5 (3.13%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.13%) Gradle
9 5 (3.13%) Snyk
9 5 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.13%) webpack
10 4 (2.50%) Mockito
11 3 (1.88%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.50%) Finance
4 11 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.13%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Publishing
8 1 (0.63%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (21.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (17.50%) Developer
3 18 (11.25%) Azure Engineer
3 18 (11.25%) Data Engineer
4 15 (9.38%) Senior
5 12 (7.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 12 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 9 (5.63%) Lead
8 8 (5.00%) Architect
8 8 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) Cloud Specialist
9 7 (4.38%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (3.75%) Administrator
11 5 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.50%) Consultant
12 4 (2.50%) Project Manager
12 4 (2.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.00%) Node.js
2 24 (15.00%) JSON
3 19 (11.88%) GraphQL
3 19 (11.88%) Playwright
3 19 (11.88%) Vitest
4 14 (8.75%) .NET
4 14 (8.75%) RESTful
5 12 (7.50%) ARM Templates
6 11 (6.88%) Entity Framework
6 11 (6.88%) PySpark
7 10 (6.25%) REST
7 10 (6.25%) XML
8 9 (5.63%) Kafka
8 9 (5.63%) Swagger
9 8 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (5.00%) OpenAPI
9 8 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (3.75%) Jest
10 6 (3.75%) SailPoint
11 5 (3.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.25%) NHS
6 2 (1.25%) PACS
6 2 (1.25%) STIX
6 2 (1.25%) YARA
7 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.63%) Replication
7 1 (0.63%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.25%) Linux
2 9 (5.63%) Ubuntu
3 8 (5.00%) CentOS
3 8 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (5.00%) Windows
4 4 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.88%) VMS
6 2 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (81.88%) CI/CD
2 122 (76.25%) DevOps
3 70 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (38.75%) Agile
5 45 (28.13%) Containerisation
6 36 (22.50%) Mentoring
7 33 (20.63%) Test Automation
8 32 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 27 (16.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (15.63%) DevSecOps
12 23 (14.38%) RBAC
13 22 (13.75%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (11.88%) Coaching
16 18 (11.25%) Data Engineering
17 17 (10.63%) ITSM
18 16 (10.00%) E-Commerce
19 15 (9.38%) API Design
19 15 (9.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (38.75%) Python
2 48 (30.00%) SQL
3 23 (14.38%) TypeScript
4 18 (11.25%) Java
5 15 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 12 (7.50%) Bash
6 12 (7.50%) C#
6 12 (7.50%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.00%) Bicep
7 8 (5.00%) Perl
7 8 (5.00%) Ruby
8 5 (3.13%) R
8 5 (3.13%) Scala
9 4 (2.50%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.88%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.88%) Go
10 3 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.88%) PHP
10 3 (1.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.00%) RHCE
5 6 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.75%) Degree
6 2 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.25%) CISSP
6 2 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.25%) GCFA
6 2 (1.25%) GCIA
6 2 (1.25%) GCIH
6 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.88%) NCSC
2 9 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.75%) QA
4 2 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.25%) GDPR
4 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.25%) NIST
4 2 (1.25%) WCAG
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 67 (41.88%) Docker
2 15 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.25%) HDFS
3 2 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.25%) Xen
4 1 (0.63%) etcd
4 1 (0.63%) KVM
4 1 (0.63%) Squid
4 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (33.75%) Kubernetes
2 48 (30.00%) Terraform
3 39 (24.38%) Ansible
4 22 (13.75%) Grafana
5 18 (11.25%) Prometheus
6 15 (9.38%) Puppet
7 8 (5.00%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (3.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (3.75%) Podman
10 5 (3.13%) Packer
11 2 (1.25%) Argo
11 2 (1.25%) Istio
12 1 (0.63%) Control-M
12 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.63%) Kibana
12 1 (0.63%) logstash
12 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (17.50%) Red Hat
2 22 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.38%) Databricks
4 12 (7.50%) Splunk
5 11 (6.88%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.75%) Veracode
7 5 (3.13%) Oracle
8 3 (1.88%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.88%) Google
8 3 (1.88%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.25%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.63%) AlgoSec
10 1 (0.63%) Juniper
10 1 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.63%) NetApp
10 1 (0.63%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.63%) Talend
10 1 (0.63%) VMware