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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 415 389
Rank change year-on-year -59 -26 -14
Contract jobs citing YAML 146 91 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 1.49% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 71 93
10th Percentile £403 £350 £433
25th Percentile £425 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -20.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £588 £650
90th Percentile £675 £663 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £478 £600
% change year-on-year +9.83% -20.33% +4.35%

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 6,108 7,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.21% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,549 4,214 5,117
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 142 232
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.02
25th Percentile £50.19 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.81 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 30 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 30 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 -49 71 £588 +23.04% 10
North of England -48 26 £513 +20.59% 2
Midlands -47 21 £407 -16.51% 4
South East -65 21 £525 +10.53% 9
Yorkshire -30 19 £500 +39.86% 1
West Midlands -53 19 £407 -16.73% 3
North West -48 5 £575 +17.95%
East Midlands -11 2 £525 +7.69% 1
South West -37 2 - - 2
North East - 2 £513 - 1
East of England -15 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 7 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.42%) Apache
3 4 (2.74%) Confluence
4 3 (2.05%) IIS
4 3 (2.05%) nginx
4 3 (2.05%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 95 (65.07%) Azure
2 71 (48.63%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (32.88%) AWS
4 36 (24.66%) GitHub
5 27 (18.49%) GCP
6 26 (17.81%) Azure AKS
7 21 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (13.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (10.96%) Entra ID
10 15 (10.27%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (9.59%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (9.59%) Power Platform
12 12 (8.22%) Serverless
13 10 (6.85%) Amazon S3
13 10 (6.85%) OCI
14 9 (6.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (6.16%) OpenShift
15 6 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.16%) DNS
2 8 (5.48%) Firewall
3 3 (2.05%) BIG-IP
3 3 (2.05%) NAS
3 3 (2.05%) Network Security
3 3 (2.05%) SAN
3 3 (2.05%) VPN
4 2 (1.37%) DHCP
4 2 (1.37%) DSL
4 2 (1.37%) Internet
5 1 (0.68%) BGP
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.68%) MPLS
5 1 (0.68%) OSPF
5 1 (0.68%) SSH
5 1 (0.68%) SSL
5 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.68%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.96%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (10.27%) Metadata
2 15 (10.27%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.16%) Data Lake
3 9 (6.16%) Power BI
4 5 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (3.42%) Data Hub
4 5 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.42%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.74%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.74%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.05%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.05%) MySQL
7 2 (1.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 40 (27.40%) Git
2 31 (21.23%) Jenkins
3 25 (17.12%) GitLab
4 13 (8.90%) SonarQube
5 11 (7.53%) Maven
6 9 (6.16%) JIRA
7 6 (4.11%) MLflow
8 5 (3.42%) JUnit
8 5 (3.42%) Postman
9 4 (2.74%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.74%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.74%) Mockito
10 3 (2.05%) NUnit
10 3 (2.05%) Selenium
10 3 (2.05%) Snyk
11 2 (1.37%) ER Studio
11 2 (1.37%) ERwin
11 2 (1.37%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.68%) git-flow
General
1 31 (21.23%) Finance
2 27 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.90%) Banking
4 11 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.16%) Publishing
6 5 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.37%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 38 (26.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (17.12%) Developer
3 20 (13.70%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (12.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (10.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 16 (10.96%) Data Engineer
6 12 (8.22%) Senior
7 11 (7.53%) Architect
8 8 (5.48%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) .NET Developer
9 7 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Analyst
10 6 (4.11%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Consultant
11 5 (3.42%) Lead
11 5 (3.42%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 5 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.97%) JSON
2 23 (15.75%) Node.js
3 17 (11.64%) .NET
3 17 (11.64%) Django
4 16 (10.96%) Flask
5 14 (9.59%) React
6 13 (8.90%) REST
7 11 (7.53%) Kafka
8 10 (6.85%) SLSA
9 9 (6.16%) ARM Templates
10 7 (4.79%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (4.11%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.11%) Entity Framework
11 6 (4.11%) RESTful
12 5 (3.42%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.42%) Spring
12 5 (3.42%) Spring Boot
12 5 (3.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.16%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.05%) Wiki
6 2 (1.37%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.37%) Clustering
6 2 (1.37%) CMDB
6 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.37%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.37%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.12%) Linux
2 13 (8.90%) Windows
3 6 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.42%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.74%) CentOS
6 3 (2.05%) Unix
7 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.37%) VMS
7 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (67.81%) CI/CD
1 99 (67.81%) DevOps
2 54 (36.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (25.34%) Containerisation
4 36 (24.66%) Agile
5 28 (19.18%) DevSecOps
6 25 (17.12%) Analytics
7 24 (16.44%) Observability
8 23 (15.75%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (14.38%) Test Automation
10 20 (13.70%) AI
10 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure Automation
11 19 (13.01%) Workflow
12 18 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (11.64%) Configuration Management
13 17 (11.64%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (11.64%) Data Integration
13 17 (11.64%) ETL
13 17 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (10.96%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 90 (61.64%) Python
2 46 (31.51%) SQL
3 43 (29.45%) PowerShell
4 35 (23.97%) Bash
5 26 (17.81%) Bicep
6 21 (14.38%) C#
7 18 (12.33%) Java
8 14 (9.59%) JavaScript
9 11 (7.53%) Groovy
10 6 (4.11%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.42%) PL/SQL
11 5 (3.42%) Scala
11 5 (3.42%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.74%) T-SQL
13 3 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (1.37%) C++
14 2 (1.37%) Cypher
14 2 (1.37%) Go
14 2 (1.37%) REXX
14 2 (1.37%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 28 (19.18%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.48%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.74%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.05%) CISSP
5 3 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.37%) Degree
6 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.68%) CCIE
7 1 (0.68%) CCNP
7 1 (0.68%) CISM
7 1 (0.68%) CRISC
7 1 (0.68%) GCFA
7 1 (0.68%) GCIA
7 1 (0.68%) GCIH
7 1 (0.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) QA
2 6 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.74%) NIST
4 2 (1.37%) GDPR
4 2 (1.37%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (26.71%) Docker
2 11 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.05%) Dovecot
6 3 (2.05%) Postfix
7 2 (1.37%) NFS
7 2 (1.37%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.68%) Firmware
8 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (48.63%) Terraform
2 57 (39.04%) Kubernetes
3 31 (21.23%) Ansible
4 11 (7.53%) Grafana
5 8 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.79%) Progress Chef
6 7 (4.79%) Puppet
7 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (3.42%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (2.74%) Data Guard
9 4 (2.74%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.05%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.37%) Argo
11 2 (1.37%) Podman
11 2 (1.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 33 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.01%) Google
3 13 (8.90%) Databricks
4 10 (6.85%) Sonatype
5 7 (4.79%) F5
5 7 (4.79%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.42%) Oracle
6 5 (3.42%) Splunk
7 4 (2.74%) Cisco
7 4 (2.74%) NEC
7 4 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.74%) VMware
8 3 (2.05%) IBM
8 3 (2.05%) Juniper
9 2 (1.37%) Brocade
9 2 (1.37%) Citrix
9 2 (1.37%) Dell
9 2 (1.37%) FactSet
9 2 (1.37%) OpenText
9 2 (1.37%) Salesforce