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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 425 403
Rank change year-on-year -36 -22 -48
Contract jobs citing YAML 166 79 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.29% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.95% 1.31% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 62 97
10th Percentile £402 £350 £448
25th Percentile £422 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £491 £585
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -16.03% +1.74%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £650
90th Percentile £651 £666 £675
UK median daily rate £516 £498 £570
% change year-on-year +3.77% -12.72% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £92.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £81.25 -

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 8,500 6,027 7,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.01% 22.34% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,603 4,138 5,570
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 134 265
10th Percentile £30.35 £30.90 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.61 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +17.12% -0.22% -14.42%

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 9 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 9 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 -38 74 £569 +16.67% 17
North of England -42 41 £468 +10.12% 2
Yorkshire -27 25 £507 +41.82%
South East -51 22 £525 +7.36% 5
Midlands -50 21 £407 -16.51% 2
West Midlands -54 19 £407 -16.73% 1
North West -27 16 £431 -11.59%
East Midlands -13 2 £525 +7.69% 1
South West -35 1 - - 7
East of England - 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 11 (6.63%) Confluence
2 8 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.22%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.01%) Apache
5 4 (2.41%) nginx
5 4 (2.41%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.81%) IIS
6 3 (1.81%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.60%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 95 (57.23%) Azure
2 64 (38.55%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (26.51%) AWS
4 37 (22.29%) GitHub
5 23 (13.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (13.25%) GCP
7 21 (12.65%) Azure AKS
8 18 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (10.24%) Power Platform
10 16 (9.64%) Entra ID
11 14 (8.43%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (8.43%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (7.83%) Serverless
13 10 (6.02%) Amazon S3
13 10 (6.02%) OpenShift
14 8 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (4.22%) OCI
16 6 (3.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.82%) DNS
2 7 (4.22%) Firewall
3 3 (1.81%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.81%) NAS
3 3 (1.81%) SAN
4 2 (1.20%) DSL
4 2 (1.20%) Internet
4 2 (1.20%) Network Security
4 2 (1.20%) VPN
5 1 (0.60%) DHCP
5 1 (0.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.60%) SSH
5 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.84%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.24%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (9.64%) Metadata
4 12 (7.23%) Power BI
5 10 (6.02%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.61%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.01%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.41%) MySQL
8 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.41%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.81%) Data Hub
9 3 (1.81%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 41 (24.70%) Git
2 36 (21.69%) GitLab
3 30 (18.07%) Jenkins
4 20 (12.05%) SonarQube
5 18 (10.84%) JIRA
6 10 (6.02%) Maven
7 8 (4.82%) JUnit
7 8 (4.82%) Mockito
8 6 (3.61%) MLflow
9 5 (3.01%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.01%) Postman
10 3 (1.81%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.81%) NUnit
11 2 (1.20%) ER Studio
11 2 (1.20%) ERwin
11 2 (1.20%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (1.20%) Selenium
12 1 (0.60%) Snyk
12 1 (0.60%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.60%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 35 (21.08%) Finance
2 32 (19.28%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.64%) Banking
4 9 (5.42%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.22%) Publishing
6 5 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Electronics
8 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (22.29%) Developer
2 32 (19.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (13.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (10.84%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (10.84%) Data Engineer
5 14 (8.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.43%) Senior
6 12 (7.23%) Architect
7 8 (4.82%) .NET Developer
7 8 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Lead
9 6 (3.61%) Analyst
9 6 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) Salesforce Developer
10 5 (3.01%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 5 (3.01%) React Developer
10 5 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.67%) JSON
2 24 (14.46%) Node.js
3 20 (12.05%) RESTful
4 17 (10.24%) .NET
4 17 (10.24%) Django
5 16 (9.64%) Flask
6 14 (8.43%) React
7 13 (7.83%) REST
8 12 (7.23%) Kafka
9 10 (6.02%) ARM Templates
9 10 (6.02%) SLSA
10 9 (5.42%) Swagger
11 8 (4.82%) Entity Framework
12 7 (4.22%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.22%) OpenAPI
12 7 (4.22%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (4.22%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (4.22%) SOAP
12 7 (4.22%) XML
13 6 (3.61%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.46%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.01%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.41%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.81%) Wiki
5 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.20%) Clustering
5 2 (1.20%) CMDB
5 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.20%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.60%) FPGA
6 1 (0.60%) PKI
6 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.06%) Linux
2 11 (6.63%) Windows
3 6 (3.61%) CentOS
3 6 (3.61%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.20%) Unix
6 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.20%) zOS
7 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (72.89%) CI/CD
2 100 (60.24%) DevOps
3 49 (29.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (28.31%) Agile
5 35 (21.08%) Containerisation
6 26 (15.66%) Test Automation
7 25 (15.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (13.86%) DevSecOps
9 21 (12.65%) Analytics
9 21 (12.65%) Observability
10 20 (12.05%) Data Modelling
10 20 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (11.45%) Data Integration
11 19 (11.45%) Deployment Automation
11 19 (11.45%) Workflow
12 18 (10.84%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (10.84%) RBAC
13 17 (10.24%) AI
13 17 (10.24%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 90 (54.22%) Python
2 52 (31.33%) SQL
3 40 (24.10%) PowerShell
4 32 (19.28%) Bash
5 31 (18.67%) Java
6 23 (13.86%) C#
7 22 (13.25%) Bicep
8 18 (10.84%) JavaScript
9 11 (6.63%) Groovy
10 7 (4.22%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.61%) Apex Code
11 6 (3.61%) Shell Script
12 5 (3.01%) PL/SQL
13 4 (2.41%) Scala
13 4 (2.41%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.81%) Perl
14 3 (1.81%) R
14 3 (1.81%) Ruby
15 2 (1.20%) REXX
Qualifications
1 32 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.06%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.82%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.41%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.81%) CISSP
5 3 (1.81%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.81%) RHCE
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CISM
7 1 (0.60%) CRISC
7 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.60%) Degree
7 1 (0.60%) GCFA
7 1 (0.60%) GCIA
7 1 (0.60%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.02%) QA
2 8 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.41%) GDPR
4 3 (1.81%) NIST
5 2 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.20%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (24.10%) Docker
2 12 (7.23%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.81%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.81%) Postfix
5 3 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.20%) NFS
6 2 (1.20%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (40.36%) Terraform
2 46 (27.71%) Kubernetes
3 33 (19.88%) Ansible
4 10 (6.02%) Grafana
5 7 (4.22%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.22%) Puppet
6 5 (3.01%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.01%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.41%) Data Guard
7 4 (2.41%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (1.81%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.20%) Argo
9 2 (1.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.60%) Istio
10 1 (0.60%) Packer
10 1 (0.60%) Podman
10 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.24%) Google
3 15 (9.04%) Databricks
4 12 (7.23%) Red Hat
4 12 (7.23%) Salesforce
5 10 (6.02%) Sonatype
6 8 (4.82%) Veracode
7 6 (3.61%) F5
8 5 (3.01%) Splunk
9 4 (2.41%) NEC
9 4 (2.41%) Oracle
9 4 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.81%) Cisco
10 3 (1.81%) IBM
10 3 (1.81%) Juniper
10 3 (1.81%) VMware
11 2 (1.20%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.20%) Dell
11 2 (1.20%) FactSet
11 2 (1.20%) OpenText