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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 401 413
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +47
Contract jobs citing YAML 133 114 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 1.81% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 68 120
10th Percentile £359 £475 £430
25th Percentile £418 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £663 £655 £675
90th Percentile £700 £701 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £579 £576
% change year-on-year -13.61% +0.48% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile - £56.50 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.88 £76.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -22.58% +39.95%
75th Percentile £48.75 £78.13 £78.75
90th Percentile £79.38 £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £77.75
% change year-on-year -20.83% -22.83% +40.41%

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 6,970 6,299 8,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.22% 21.87% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,658 4,025 5,883
10th Percentile £351 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.16%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 78 165
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.84 £44.17 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.00 £63.75 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +22.86% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.13 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.20% +19.05% -19.23%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 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 +6 79 £475 -18.28% 14
West Midlands -21 22 £700 +14.38% 3
Midlands -27 22 £700 +14.38% 7
South West -3 15 £700 +14.29% 3
South East -18 12 £435 -30.40% 10
North of England -39 7 £420 -27.90% 7
North West -26 5 £420 +1.82% 2
East of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire -49 1 - - 5
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 6 (4.51%) Confluence
2 5 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.76%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.26%) Apache
3 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.50%) SAS
4 2 (1.50%) Traefik
5 1 (0.75%) IIS
5 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (62.41%) Azure
2 49 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (33.08%) GitHub
4 31 (23.31%) AWS
5 20 (15.04%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (12.78%) GCP
7 16 (12.03%) SaaS
8 15 (11.28%) Datadog
9 13 (9.77%) Serverless
10 12 (9.02%) Azure AKS
10 12 (9.02%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (9.02%) Entra ID
11 11 (8.27%) IaaS
11 11 (8.27%) OpenShift
12 10 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (7.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (5.26%) npm
14 7 (5.26%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.02%) Firewall
2 6 (4.51%) DNS
2 6 (4.51%) VPN
3 4 (3.01%) DHCP
4 3 (2.26%) HTTP
4 3 (2.26%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.50%) Calico
5 2 (1.50%) LAN
5 2 (1.50%) WAN
6 1 (0.75%) BGP
6 1 (0.75%) IPsec
6 1 (0.75%) Network Security
6 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.75%) VLAN
6 1 (0.75%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.52%) Redis
3 9 (6.77%) Delta Lake
4 7 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.51%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.76%) Big Data
6 5 (3.76%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.76%) Metadata
6 5 (3.76%) Power BI
7 4 (3.01%) Parquet
7 4 (3.01%) Spark SQL
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.26%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.26%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (2.26%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (24.81%) Jenkins
2 28 (21.05%) Git
3 17 (12.78%) SonarQube
4 15 (11.28%) GitLab
5 13 (9.77%) JIRA
6 10 (7.52%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.51%) CircleCI
7 6 (4.51%) Postman
7 6 (4.51%) Selenium
8 5 (3.76%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.76%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.76%) Gradle
8 5 (3.76%) JUnit
8 5 (3.76%) Maven
8 5 (3.76%) Snyk
8 5 (3.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.76%) webpack
9 3 (2.26%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 20 (15.04%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.27%) Finance
3 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.51%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.26%) Banking
6 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Law
7 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.04%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (14.29%) Developer
4 16 (12.03%) Data Engineer
4 16 (12.03%) Senior
5 11 (8.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 11 (8.27%) Software Engineer
6 10 (7.52%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (6.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) Administrator
8 8 (6.02%) Cloud Specialist
9 7 (5.26%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Consultant
11 4 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Technical Consultant
12 3 (2.26%) Oracle Technical Consultant
12 3 (2.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.05%) Node.js
2 20 (15.04%) GraphQL
2 20 (15.04%) JSON
3 19 (14.29%) Playwright
3 19 (14.29%) Vitest
4 15 (11.28%) .NET
5 12 (9.02%) PySpark
6 9 (6.77%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (6.77%) Kafka
7 8 (6.02%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (5.26%) REST
8 7 (5.26%) XML
9 6 (4.51%) ARM Templates
9 6 (4.51%) Jest
9 6 (4.51%) Keycloak
9 6 (4.51%) OAuth
10 5 (3.76%) ADO
11 4 (3.01%) .NET Framework
11 4 (3.01%) Entity Framework
11 4 (3.01%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.76%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.01%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.26%) STIX
5 3 (2.26%) YARA
6 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.50%) NHS
6 2 (1.50%) PACS
7 1 (0.75%) CUDA
7 1 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.75%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.05%) Linux
2 10 (7.52%) Windows
3 5 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.26%) Unix
4 3 (2.26%) VMS
5 1 (0.75%) Android
5 1 (0.75%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (85.71%) DevOps
2 106 (79.70%) CI/CD
3 71 (53.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (46.62%) Agile
5 45 (33.83%) Containerisation
6 32 (24.06%) Software Engineering
7 29 (21.80%) Test Automation
8 27 (20.30%) Mentoring
9 24 (18.05%) DevSecOps
9 24 (18.05%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (14.29%) Coaching
12 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (12.03%) E-Commerce
14 15 (11.28%) End-to-End Testing
15 14 (10.53%) Data Engineering
16 13 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (9.77%) Observability
17 12 (9.02%) Data Pipeline
17 12 (9.02%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (36.09%) Python
2 34 (25.56%) SQL
3 22 (16.54%) TypeScript
4 20 (15.04%) PowerShell
5 14 (10.53%) Bash
6 13 (9.77%) C#
7 12 (9.02%) Bicep
8 10 (7.52%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.01%) Java
9 4 (3.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (3.01%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.01%) R
9 4 (3.01%) Scala
10 3 (2.26%) Go
10 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.26%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.50%) PHP
12 1 (0.75%) C++
12 1 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (30.83%) Security Cleared
2 34 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.28%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.51%) Degree
5 5 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.26%) CISSP
6 3 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.26%) GCFA
6 3 (2.26%) GCIA
6 3 (2.26%) GCIH
7 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.27%) NCSC
2 7 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.51%) QA
4 3 (2.26%) NIST
5 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.50%) WCAG
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 65 (48.87%) Docker
2 12 (9.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.50%) HDFS
4 2 (1.50%) Xen
5 1 (0.75%) etcd
5 1 (0.75%) KVM
5 1 (0.75%) Squid
5 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (45.11%) Kubernetes
2 55 (41.35%) Terraform
3 28 (21.05%) Grafana
4 25 (18.80%) Ansible
5 23 (17.29%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.27%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.02%) Puppet
8 7 (5.26%) Packer
9 6 (4.51%) Podman
10 2 (1.50%) Argo
10 2 (1.50%) Istio
10 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.75%) Control-M
11 1 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.75%) Kibana
11 1 (0.75%) logstash
11 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.78%) Databricks
3 15 (11.28%) Splunk
4 8 (6.02%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.76%) Google
5 5 (3.76%) Oracle
5 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.26%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.26%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.75%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.75%) Juniper
8 1 (0.75%) NetApp
8 1 (0.75%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.75%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.75%) VMware