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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 421 401
Rank change year-on-year -52 -20 -39
Contract jobs citing YAML 151 85 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.31% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.78% 1.40% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 66 96
10th Percentile £403 £347 £463
25th Percentile £425 £418 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £476 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -20.63% +4.35%
75th Percentile £615 £588 £650
90th Percentile £671 £655 £675
UK median daily rate £521 £478 £582
% change year-on-year +9.11% -17.91% +1.22%

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 8,468 6,083 7,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.87% 22.25% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,549 4,191 5,234
10th Percentile £363 £353 £356
25th Percentile £430 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £801
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £543
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 136 243
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.51 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 23 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 23 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 -41 71 £569 +21.33% 13
North of England -46 29 £500 +17.65% 2
South East -64 22 £525 +15.01% 2
Midlands -45 21 £407 -16.51% 4
Yorkshire -31 20 £500 +39.86%
West Midlands -50 19 £407 -16.73% 4
North West -38 9 £500 +2.56%
East Midlands -12 2 £525 +7.69%
South West -38 2 - - 3
East of England -25 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 8 (5.30%) Confluence
2 7 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.31%) Apache
4 3 (1.99%) IIS
4 3 (1.99%) nginx
4 3 (1.99%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.66%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 94 (62.25%) Azure
2 68 (45.03%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (29.80%) AWS
4 35 (23.18%) GitHub
5 26 (17.22%) GCP
6 24 (15.89%) Azure AKS
7 20 (13.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (11.26%) Entra ID
9 15 (9.93%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (9.93%) Power Platform
10 14 (9.27%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (7.95%) Serverless
12 10 (6.62%) Amazon S3
12 10 (6.62%) OCI
13 9 (5.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (5.96%) OpenShift
14 6 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.96%) DNS
2 8 (5.30%) Firewall
3 3 (1.99%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.99%) NAS
3 3 (1.99%) Network Security
3 3 (1.99%) SAN
3 3 (1.99%) VPN
4 2 (1.32%) DHCP
4 2 (1.32%) DSL
4 2 (1.32%) Internet
5 1 (0.66%) BGP
5 1 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.66%) MPLS
5 1 (0.66%) OSPF
5 1 (0.66%) SSH
5 1 (0.66%) SSL
5 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.66%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.66%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.60%) Data Warehouse
1 16 (10.60%) Metadata
2 15 (9.93%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.62%) Data Lake
3 10 (6.62%) Power BI
4 5 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.31%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.65%) Data Hub
5 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.65%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.99%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.99%) MySQL
6 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (26.49%) Git
2 32 (21.19%) Jenkins
3 30 (19.87%) GitLab
4 18 (11.92%) SonarQube
5 13 (8.61%) JIRA
6 12 (7.95%) Maven
7 6 (3.97%) JUnit
7 6 (3.97%) MLflow
8 5 (3.31%) Mockito
8 5 (3.31%) Postman
9 4 (2.65%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.65%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.99%) NUnit
10 3 (1.99%) Selenium
11 2 (1.32%) ER Studio
11 2 (1.32%) ERwin
11 2 (1.32%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (1.32%) Snyk
11 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
General
1 32 (21.19%) Finance
2 25 (16.56%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.27%) Banking
4 13 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.96%) Publishing
6 6 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.32%) Law
10 1 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 38 (25.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (19.87%) Developer
3 21 (13.91%) Azure Engineer
4 20 (13.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (11.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 15 (9.93%) Data Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) Senior
8 11 (7.28%) Architect
9 8 (5.30%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.64%) .NET Developer
10 7 (4.64%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.97%) Analyst
11 6 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.31%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (3.31%) Lead
12 5 (3.31%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 5 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.18%) JSON
2 24 (15.89%) Node.js
3 17 (11.26%) Django
4 16 (10.60%) Flask
5 15 (9.93%) .NET
6 14 (9.27%) React
6 14 (9.27%) REST
7 12 (7.95%) RESTful
8 11 (7.28%) SLSA
9 10 (6.62%) ARM Templates
9 10 (6.62%) Kafka
10 8 (5.30%) Entity Framework
11 7 (4.64%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.64%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.97%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.97%) XML
13 5 (3.31%) .NET Framework
13 5 (3.31%) SOAP
13 5 (3.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.57%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.96%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.31%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.99%) Wiki
6 2 (1.32%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.32%) Clustering
6 2 (1.32%) CMDB
6 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.23%) Linux
2 13 (8.61%) Windows
3 6 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.65%) CentOS
4 4 (2.65%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.99%) Unix
6 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.32%) VMS
6 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (70.20%) CI/CD
2 98 (64.90%) DevOps
3 51 (33.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (25.17%) Agile
5 35 (23.18%) Containerisation
6 27 (17.88%) DevSecOps
7 24 (15.89%) Test Automation
8 23 (15.23%) Analytics
9 22 (14.57%) Observability
10 21 (13.91%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (13.25%) Infrastructure Automation
11 20 (13.25%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (12.58%) Workflow
13 18 (11.92%) AI
13 18 (11.92%) Data Modelling
13 18 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (11.26%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (11.26%) Data Integration
14 17 (11.26%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (11.26%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 88 (58.28%) Python
2 48 (31.79%) SQL
3 43 (28.48%) PowerShell
4 34 (22.52%) Bash
5 24 (15.89%) Java
6 23 (15.23%) Bicep
7 20 (13.25%) C#
8 15 (9.93%) JavaScript
9 12 (7.95%) Groovy
10 6 (3.97%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.31%) PL/SQL
11 5 (3.31%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.65%) Apex Code
12 4 (2.65%) Scala
12 4 (2.65%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (1.32%) Cypher
14 2 (1.32%) Go
14 2 (1.32%) R
14 2 (1.32%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 30 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.30%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.65%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.99%) CISSP
5 3 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.32%) Degree
6 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.66%) CCIE
7 1 (0.66%) CCNP
7 1 (0.66%) CISM
7 1 (0.66%) CRISC
7 1 (0.66%) GCFA
7 1 (0.66%) GCIA
7 1 (0.66%) GCIH
7 1 (0.66%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.96%) QA
2 6 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.99%) GDPR
3 3 (1.99%) NIST
4 2 (1.32%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (25.83%) Docker
2 12 (7.95%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.99%) Dovecot
6 3 (1.99%) Postfix
7 2 (1.32%) NFS
7 2 (1.32%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.66%) Firmware
8 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 69 (45.70%) Terraform
2 51 (33.77%) Kubernetes
3 30 (19.87%) Ansible
4 10 (6.62%) Grafana
5 7 (4.64%) Progress Chef
5 7 (4.64%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.64%) Puppet
6 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (3.31%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.65%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.65%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.99%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.32%) Argo
10 2 (1.32%) Podman
10 2 (1.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.66%) Istio
11 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.92%) Google
3 13 (8.61%) Databricks
4 11 (7.28%) Sonatype
5 7 (4.64%) F5
5 7 (4.64%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.97%) Salesforce
7 5 (3.31%) Oracle
7 5 (3.31%) Splunk
8 4 (2.65%) Cisco
8 4 (2.65%) NEC
8 4 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.65%) Veracode
8 4 (2.65%) VMware
9 3 (1.99%) IBM
9 3 (1.99%) Juniper
10 2 (1.32%) Brocade
10 2 (1.32%) Citrix
10 2 (1.32%) Dell
10 2 (1.32%) OpenText