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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 410 378
Rank change year-on-year -71 -32 -9
Contract jobs citing YAML 144 100 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.37% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 1.47% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 72 94
10th Percentile £403 £351 £475
25th Percentile £469 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £478 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.84% -20.38% +4.26%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £638
90th Percentile £707 £689 £693
UK median daily rate £537 £478 £582
% change year-on-year +12.34% -17.87% +3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.25 £100.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £92.50 £105.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +75.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £93.75 £110.00 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £87.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.71% +45.83% -23.08%

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 9,748 6,796 8,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.97% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,417 4,663 5,509
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 163 178
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £32.83
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.60 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.30% -15.32% -0.80%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -70 79 £600 +26.32% 37
North of England -55 23 £513 +13.89% 10
Yorkshire -25 17 £514 +28.58% 1
Midlands -47 16 £431 -25.00% 6
South East -72 16 £525 +10.53% 9
West Midlands -47 13 £407 -34.14% 2
South West -46 5 £674 -3.68% 6
North East - 4 £513 - 4
East Midlands -20 3 £450 -7.69% 4
North West -46 2 £500 +2.56% 5
East of England -18 1 £525 - 9
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 9 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (5.56%) Confluence
2 8 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.86%) Apache
4 4 (2.78%) IIS
4 4 (2.78%) nginx
5 3 (2.08%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.39%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 81 (56.25%) Azure
2 67 (46.53%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (35.42%) AWS
4 49 (34.03%) GitHub
5 28 (19.44%) Azure AKS
6 26 (18.06%) GCP
7 24 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (13.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (11.11%) Entra ID
10 14 (9.72%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (9.72%) Serverless
11 12 (8.33%) Amazon S3
11 12 (8.33%) Power Platform
12 10 (6.94%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (6.94%) OCI
13 8 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (5.56%) Azure Databricks
13 8 (5.56%) OpenShift
14 7 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (4.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.33%) DNS
2 10 (6.94%) BGP
2 10 (6.94%) Ethernet VPN
2 10 (6.94%) VXLAN
3 9 (6.25%) Firewall
3 9 (6.25%) NX-OS
4 5 (3.47%) BIG-IP
5 4 (2.78%) DHCP
5 4 (2.78%) TACACS
6 3 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (2.08%) NAS
6 3 (2.08%) Network Security
6 3 (2.08%) SAN
7 2 (1.39%) DSL
7 2 (1.39%) Internet
7 2 (1.39%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.39%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.39%) VPN
7 2 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.42%) Metadata
2 14 (9.72%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.47%) Data Hub
6 5 (3.47%) Power BI
6 5 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (2.78%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.08%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.08%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.08%) MySQL
8 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.39%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.39%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (29.86%) Git
2 35 (24.31%) GitLab
3 28 (19.44%) Jenkins
4 14 (9.72%) SonarQube
5 12 (8.33%) JIRA
5 12 (8.33%) Maven
6 6 (4.17%) MLflow
7 5 (3.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.78%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.78%) JUnit
8 4 (2.78%) Postman
9 3 (2.08%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.08%) Mockito
9 3 (2.08%) Selenium
9 3 (2.08%) Snyk
10 2 (1.39%) ER Studio
10 2 (1.39%) ERwin
10 2 (1.39%) NUnit
10 2 (1.39%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (22.22%) Finance
2 29 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.64%) Banking
4 10 (6.94%) Publishing
5 6 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (0.69%) Electronics
8 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (31.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (13.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 18 (12.50%) Architect
5 14 (9.72%) Senior
6 12 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) Developer
8 9 (6.25%) Consultant
8 9 (6.25%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.86%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (4.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Analyst
11 6 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Network Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (52.78%) Terraform
2 38 (26.39%) JSON
3 16 (11.11%) REST
4 15 (10.42%) Node.js
5 14 (9.72%) ARM Templates
6 13 (9.03%) Kafka
7 12 (8.33%) .NET
8 10 (6.94%) SLSA
9 9 (6.25%) Flask
10 8 (5.56%) React
11 7 (4.86%) Django
12 5 (3.47%) .NET Framework
13 4 (2.78%) .NET Core
13 4 (2.78%) Entity Framework
13 4 (2.78%) FastAPI
13 4 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.78%) RESTful
13 4 (2.78%) Spring
13 4 (2.78%) Spring Boot
14 3 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.03%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.39%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.39%) Clustering
6 2 (1.39%) CMDB
6 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.39%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.39%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.69%) FPGA
7 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.75%) Linux
2 13 (9.03%) Windows
3 6 (4.17%) Ubuntu
3 6 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.47%) VMS
5 4 (2.78%) CentOS
6 3 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.08%) Unix
7 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.39%) zOS
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 95 (65.97%) DevOps
3 61 (42.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (25.69%) Containerisation
5 34 (23.61%) Agile
6 30 (20.83%) DevSecOps
7 26 (18.06%) Analytics
7 26 (18.06%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (18.06%) Test Automation
8 25 (17.36%) Observability
9 24 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 23 (15.97%) AI
10 23 (15.97%) GitOps
11 20 (13.89%) Migration
11 20 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (13.19%) Validation
13 18 (12.50%) Configuration Management
13 18 (12.50%) Data Modelling
14 17 (11.81%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (11.81%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 97 (67.36%) Python
2 47 (32.64%) PowerShell
3 41 (28.47%) Bash
4 37 (25.69%) SQL
5 22 (15.28%) Bicep
6 19 (13.19%) Java
7 11 (7.64%) C#
7 11 (7.64%) Groovy
8 9 (6.25%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.86%) Scala
9 7 (4.86%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.78%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.08%) Perl
11 3 (2.08%) R
12 2 (1.39%) Cypher
12 2 (1.39%) JCL
12 2 (1.39%) REXX
12 2 (1.39%) SHACL
12 2 (1.39%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.47%) Degree
5 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.08%) CCIE
6 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.39%) CISSP
7 2 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.69%) CCNP
8 1 (0.69%) CISM
8 1 (0.69%) CRISC
8 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) QA
2 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.08%) NIST
4 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (29.86%) Docker
2 13 (9.03%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.47%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.08%) Dovecot
7 3 (2.08%) Postfix
8 2 (1.39%) NFS
8 2 (1.39%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (40.97%) Kubernetes
2 40 (27.78%) Ansible
3 13 (9.03%) Grafana
4 8 (5.56%) Puppet
5 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (4.86%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.47%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.78%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (2.08%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.39%) Argo
10 2 (1.39%) Control-M
10 2 (1.39%) Podman
10 2 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.69%) Istio
11 1 (0.69%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.19%) Google
3 18 (12.50%) Databricks
4 14 (9.72%) Cisco
4 14 (9.72%) Red Hat
5 12 (8.33%) VMware
6 11 (7.64%) Sonatype
7 10 (6.94%) ServiceNow
8 9 (6.25%) F5
9 6 (4.17%) Splunk
10 5 (3.47%) Infoblox
10 5 (3.47%) Oracle
11 3 (2.08%) Juniper
11 3 (2.08%) NEC
11 3 (2.08%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.39%) Arista
12 2 (1.39%) Broadcom
12 2 (1.39%) FactSet
12 2 (1.39%) OpenText
12 2 (1.39%) Talend