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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 392 433
Rank change year-on-year -16 +41 +56
Contract jobs citing YAML 129 125 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 1.88% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 74 117
10th Percentile £356 £475 £450
25th Percentile £415 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.64% +1.16%
75th Percentile £650 £651 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -12.66% -4.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £56.50 -
25th Percentile £100.00 £56.88 £76.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 £60.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -22.58% +39.95%
75th Percentile £110.00 £78.13 £78.75
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £105.00 £60.00 £77.75
% change year-on-year +75.00% -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 6,833 6,651 8,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.43% 21.74% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,604 4,233 6,202
10th Percentile £350 £360 £370
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £672 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 101 176
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% +23.22% -18.85%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -14.62% +19.20% -13.44%

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 1 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
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 1 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 +16 79 £475 -13.64% 16
West Midlands -17 21 £700 +14.38% 1
Midlands -27 21 £700 +14.38% 5
South West +10 14 £700 +14.29%
South East -11 12 £435 -30.40% 13
North of England -44 6 £420 -27.90% 1
North West -16 5 £420 +1.82% 1
East of England - 2 - - 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 6 (4.65%) Confluence
2 5 (3.88%) Apache
2 5 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.10%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.33%) IIS
5 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.55%) SAS
5 2 (1.55%) Traefik
6 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (61.24%) Azure
2 50 (38.76%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (34.88%) GitHub
4 25 (19.38%) AWS
5 18 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (12.40%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (12.40%) SaaS
7 15 (11.63%) GCP
8 13 (10.08%) OpenShift
9 11 (8.53%) Azure AKS
9 11 (8.53%) Datadog
9 11 (8.53%) Serverless
10 10 (7.75%) IaaS
11 9 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (6.98%) Entra ID
12 8 (6.20%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.20%) DNS
1 8 (6.20%) Firewall
2 6 (4.65%) Network Security
2 6 (4.65%) VPN
3 5 (3.88%) DHCP
4 3 (2.33%) BGP
5 2 (1.55%) Calico
5 2 (1.55%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (1.55%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.55%) MPLS
5 2 (1.55%) SMTP
6 1 (0.78%) HTTP
6 1 (0.78%) IPsec
6 1 (0.78%) LAN
6 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.78%) VLAN
6 1 (0.78%) VRRP
6 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.08%) Redis
3 8 (6.20%) Delta Lake
3 8 (6.20%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.65%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.10%) Big Data
6 4 (3.10%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.10%) Metadata
6 4 (3.10%) Parquet
6 4 (3.10%) Power BI
6 4 (3.10%) Spark SQL
6 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.33%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (2.33%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.55%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (1.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (20.93%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.83%) Git
3 16 (12.40%) SonarQube
4 14 (10.85%) GitLab
4 14 (10.85%) JIRA
5 9 (6.98%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.88%) Artifactory
6 5 (3.88%) Selenium
7 4 (3.10%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.10%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.10%) Gradle
7 4 (3.10%) JUnit
7 4 (3.10%) Maven
7 4 (3.10%) Postman
7 4 (3.10%) Snyk
7 4 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (3.10%) webpack
8 3 (2.33%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.78%) Mocha
General
1 24 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.30%) Finance
3 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.43%) Law
5 6 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.33%) Banking
6 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (24.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (13.95%) Azure Engineer
2 18 (13.95%) Developer
3 14 (10.85%) Senior
4 13 (10.08%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 10 (7.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Cloud Specialist
8 7 (5.43%) Administrator
8 7 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Consultant
11 4 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Technical Consultant
12 3 (2.33%) Oracle Technical Consultant
12 3 (2.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.60%) Node.js
2 17 (13.18%) GraphQL
3 16 (12.40%) JSON
3 16 (12.40%) Playwright
3 16 (12.40%) Vitest
4 14 (10.85%) .NET
5 12 (9.30%) Kafka
6 11 (8.53%) PySpark
7 10 (7.75%) ADO
7 10 (7.75%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (6.98%) ARM Templates
8 9 (6.98%) Keycloak
8 9 (6.98%) REST
9 6 (4.65%) Jest
9 6 (4.65%) OAuth
10 5 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (3.10%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.10%) .NET Framework
11 4 (3.10%) OpenID
11 4 (3.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.71%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.10%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.10%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.33%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.55%) NHS
5 2 (1.55%) PACS
5 2 (1.55%) PKI
5 2 (1.55%) STIX
5 2 (1.55%) YARA
6 1 (0.78%) CUDA
6 1 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (0.78%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.48%) Linux
2 10 (7.75%) Windows
3 5 (3.88%) Unix
3 5 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.33%) VMS
5 2 (1.55%) CentOS
6 1 (0.78%) Android
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (82.95%) DevOps
2 103 (79.84%) CI/CD
3 74 (57.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (50.39%) Agile
5 48 (37.21%) Containerisation
6 31 (24.03%) Test Automation
7 28 (21.71%) DevSecOps
8 27 (20.93%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (18.60%) Mentoring
11 23 (17.83%) Software Engineering
12 16 (12.40%) Coaching
12 16 (12.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (11.63%) Observability
14 13 (10.08%) Analytics
14 13 (10.08%) E-Commerce
14 13 (10.08%) Scrum
15 12 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (9.30%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (36.43%) Python
2 31 (24.03%) SQL
3 23 (17.83%) PowerShell
4 22 (17.05%) Bash
5 19 (14.73%) TypeScript
6 18 (13.95%) Bicep
7 11 (8.53%) C#
8 10 (7.75%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.10%) Java
9 4 (3.10%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.10%) R
9 4 (3.10%) Scala
10 3 (2.33%) Go
10 3 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.55%) PHP
11 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.78%) C++
12 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.78%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 30 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.40%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.65%) Degree
5 5 (3.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.55%) CISSP
6 2 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.55%) GCFA
6 2 (1.55%) GCIA
6 2 (1.55%) GCIH
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) NCSC
2 6 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.10%) QA
4 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.55%) NIST
4 2 (1.55%) WCAG
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 59 (45.74%) Docker
2 13 (10.08%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.55%) Xen
6 1 (0.78%) etcd
6 1 (0.78%) HDFS
6 1 (0.78%) iptables
6 1 (0.78%) KVM
6 1 (0.78%) Squid
Systems Management
1 62 (48.06%) Kubernetes
2 53 (41.09%) Terraform
3 30 (23.26%) Ansible
4 25 (19.38%) Grafana
5 21 (16.28%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.75%) Packer
6 10 (7.75%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.43%) Puppet
8 5 (3.88%) Podman
9 2 (1.55%) Argo
9 2 (1.55%) Istio
9 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.78%) Control-M
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.40%) Splunk
3 13 (10.08%) Databricks
4 6 (4.65%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.88%) Google
5 5 (3.88%) Oracle
5 5 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.33%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.33%) VMware
7 2 (1.55%) Cisco
7 2 (1.55%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.78%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.78%) Citrix
8 1 (0.78%) Juniper
8 1 (0.78%) NetApp
8 1 (0.78%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.78%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.78%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow