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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 386 403
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 +19
Contract jobs citing YAML 148 102 144
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.12% 1.73% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 65 113
10th Percentile £381 £475 £430
25th Percentile £454 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £671 £656
90th Percentile £700 £702 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £583 £576
% change year-on-year -9.87% +1.13% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile - £56.50 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -23.08% +40.86%
75th Percentile £48.75 £78.13 -
90th Percentile £73.25 £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% -23.08% +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 6,975 5,904 7,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.02% 22.15% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,662 3,770 5,635
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 76 174
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £27.98
25th Percentile £46.00 £43.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.05 £74.65 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -4 82 £519 -7.78% 11
North of England -27 24 £513 -12.02% 11
West Midlands -23 20 £700 +4.71% 4
Midlands -28 20 £700 +4.71% 7
Yorkshire -30 18 £525 -12.32% 4
South West +4 14 £700 +14.29% 2
South East -24 10 £435 -30.40% 4
North West -22 5 £420 +1.82% 7
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 7 (4.73%) Confluence
2 5 (3.38%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.35%) SAS
5 2 (1.35%) Traefik
6 1 (0.68%) CMS
6 1 (0.68%) IIS
6 1 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.68%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 83 (56.08%) Azure
2 41 (27.70%) Azure DevOps
2 41 (27.70%) GitHub
3 32 (21.62%) AWS
4 19 (12.84%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (11.49%) Entra ID
6 16 (10.81%) SaaS
7 15 (10.14%) Datadog
7 15 (10.14%) GCP
8 14 (9.46%) PaaS
9 13 (8.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (8.78%) Serverless
10 12 (8.11%) IaaS
10 12 (8.11%) OpenShift
11 11 (7.43%) Azure AKS
12 10 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (6.76%) Power Platform
13 9 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (6.08%) Azure Service Fabric
14 8 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.73%) Firewall
2 6 (4.05%) VPN
3 5 (3.38%) DNS
4 3 (2.03%) DHCP
4 3 (2.03%) HTTP
4 3 (2.03%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.35%) Calico
5 2 (1.35%) LAN
5 2 (1.35%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) BGP
6 1 (0.68%) IPsec
6 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.68%) VLAN
6 1 (0.68%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.08%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.08%) Power BI
3 9 (6.08%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.08%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.41%) Redis
5 7 (4.73%) Delta Lake
5 7 (4.73%) Metadata
5 7 (4.73%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.38%) Big Data
7 5 (3.38%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.38%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (2.03%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (22.30%) Jenkins
2 24 (16.22%) Git
3 17 (11.49%) SonarQube
4 15 (10.14%) GitLab
5 12 (8.11%) JIRA
6 10 (6.76%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.05%) CircleCI
7 6 (4.05%) Postman
7 6 (4.05%) Selenium
8 5 (3.38%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.38%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.38%) Gradle
8 5 (3.38%) JUnit
8 5 (3.38%) Maven
8 5 (3.38%) Snyk
8 5 (3.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.38%) webpack
9 3 (2.03%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 27 (18.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (7.43%) Finance
3 10 (6.76%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.05%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.03%) Banking
6 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.68%) Law
7 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (24.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (14.19%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (13.51%) Developer
4 17 (11.49%) Data Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) Senior
6 12 (8.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 12 (8.11%) Software Engineer
7 10 (6.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (5.41%) Cloud Specialist
9 8 (5.41%) Lead
10 7 (4.73%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Administrator
11 6 (4.05%) Architect
12 5 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (2.70%) Consultant
13 4 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (2.70%) Support Engineer
13 4 (2.70%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.95%) Node.js
2 22 (14.86%) JSON
3 20 (13.51%) GraphQL
4 19 (12.84%) Playwright
4 19 (12.84%) Vitest
5 16 (10.81%) .NET
6 12 (8.11%) ARM Templates
7 11 (7.43%) Entity Framework
7 11 (7.43%) PySpark
8 10 (6.76%) XML
9 8 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (5.41%) Kafka
9 8 (5.41%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (5.41%) REST
10 6 (4.05%) Jest
10 6 (4.05%) OAuth
10 6 (4.05%) SailPoint
11 4 (2.70%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.70%) OpenID
11 4 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.62%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.38%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.35%) NHS
6 2 (1.35%) PACS
6 2 (1.35%) STIX
6 2 (1.35%) YARA
7 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.30%) Linux
2 8 (5.41%) Ubuntu
2 8 (5.41%) Windows
3 7 (4.73%) CentOS
3 7 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.03%) VMS
6 2 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (83.11%) DevOps
2 119 (80.41%) CI/CD
3 74 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (38.51%) Agile
5 47 (31.76%) Containerisation
6 35 (23.65%) Mentoring
7 33 (22.30%) Software Engineering
8 30 (20.27%) Test Automation
9 24 (16.22%) DevSecOps
9 24 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (14.19%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (12.84%) Coaching
12 19 (12.84%) RBAC
13 17 (11.49%) Data Engineering
13 17 (11.49%) Microservices
14 16 (10.81%) E-Commerce
14 16 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 15 (10.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 58 (39.19%) Python
2 49 (33.11%) SQL
3 22 (14.86%) TypeScript
4 16 (10.81%) PowerShell
5 14 (9.46%) C#
6 12 (8.11%) Bash
6 12 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.08%) Bicep
8 7 (4.73%) Perl
8 7 (4.73%) Ruby
9 5 (3.38%) Java
9 5 (3.38%) R
9 5 (3.38%) Scala
10 4 (2.70%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.70%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.03%) Go
11 3 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.03%) PHP
11 3 (2.03%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 47 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 41 (27.70%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.14%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.73%) RHCE
5 6 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.05%) Degree
6 2 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.35%) CISSP
6 2 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.35%) GCFA
6 2 (1.35%) GCIA
6 2 (1.35%) GCIH
6 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.43%) NCSC
2 9 (6.08%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.41%) QA
4 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.35%) GDPR
4 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.35%) NIST
4 2 (1.35%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 70 (47.30%) Docker
2 15 (10.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.35%) HDFS
3 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.35%) Xen
4 1 (0.68%) etcd
4 1 (0.68%) KVM
4 1 (0.68%) Squid
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (37.84%) Kubernetes
2 52 (35.14%) Terraform
3 38 (25.68%) Ansible
4 23 (15.54%) Grafana
5 18 (12.16%) Prometheus
6 15 (10.14%) Puppet
7 10 (6.76%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.73%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (4.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (4.05%) Podman
10 5 (3.38%) Packer
11 2 (1.35%) Argo
11 2 (1.35%) Istio
12 1 (0.68%) Control-M
12 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.68%) Kibana
12 1 (0.68%) logstash
12 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (16.22%) Red Hat
2 23 (15.54%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.46%) Databricks
4 13 (8.78%) Splunk
5 5 (3.38%) Oracle
5 5 (3.38%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.70%) Google
7 3 (2.03%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.03%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.35%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.68%) AlgoSec
9 1 (0.68%) Juniper
9 1 (0.68%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.68%) NetApp
9 1 (0.68%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.68%) Talend
9 1 (0.68%) VMware