YAML Contracts in England

YAML
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring YAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YAML over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 408 389
Rank change year-on-year +8 -19 +170
Contract jobs citing YAML 83 140 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.37% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.44% 1.84% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 111 210
10th Percentile £440 £415 £458
25th Percentile £490 £494 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £663 £665 £738
90th Percentile £690 £690 £820
UK median daily rate £569 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.21% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £63.25 - £39.08
25th Percentile £73.75 - £45.19
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £55.38
75th Percentile £93.75 - £65.56
90th Percentile - - £71.68
UK median hourly rate £92.50 - £55.38
% change year-on-year - - +0.68%

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 5,773 7,623 13,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.59% 20.19% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,823 5,434 9,651
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £431 £430 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £570
% change year-on-year - -7.89% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 207 156
10th Percentile £26.92 £21.08 £33.75
25th Percentile £45.75 £40.78 £49.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.28% -25.05% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.63 £72.81
90th Percentile £81.34 £76.53 £77.86
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £48.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.28% -25.05% +32.65%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in England.

Daily rate trend for YAML in England

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in England.

Hourly rate trend for YAML in England

YAML
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

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 6 March 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 +10 46 £550 -11.29% 17
South East +54 20 £630 +26.00% 7
Midlands +21 10 £725 +11.54% 4
West Midlands +21 10 £725 - 4
Yorkshire +11 5 £583 +35.47% 2
North of England +11 5 £583 +35.07% 7
South West +19 3 £613 +2.08% 1
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (10.84%) Confluence
2 8 (9.64%) Apache Spark
3 7 (8.43%) SharePoint
4 4 (4.82%) Apache
5 3 (3.61%) nginx
6 2 (2.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (1.20%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (69.88%) Azure
2 36 (43.37%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (18.07%) GitHub
4 14 (16.87%) Power Platform
5 10 (12.05%) Serverless
6 9 (10.84%) Azure Functions
6 9 (10.84%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (9.64%) Azure AKS
7 8 (9.64%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (9.64%) SaaS
8 7 (8.43%) AWS
8 7 (8.43%) Azure API Management
8 7 (8.43%) Copilot Studio
8 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (8.43%) PaaS
8 7 (8.43%) PowerApps
9 6 (7.23%) IaaS
10 5 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (6.02%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (6.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.05%) Firewall
2 5 (6.02%) DNS
3 4 (4.82%) BGP
3 4 (4.82%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (4.82%) DHCP
3 4 (4.82%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (4.82%) HTTP
3 4 (4.82%) MPLS
3 4 (4.82%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (4.82%) SAN
3 4 (4.82%) SSL
3 4 (4.82%) VLAN
3 4 (4.82%) VPN
4 2 (2.41%) Network Security
4 2 (2.41%) SSH
5 1 (1.20%) FTP
5 1 (1.20%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.20%) IPsec
5 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.87%) Power BI
2 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.23%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.61%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (3.61%) SSDT
6 2 (2.41%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.41%) Big Data
6 2 (2.41%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.41%) Parquet
7 1 (1.20%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (28.92%) Git
2 15 (18.07%) JIRA
3 11 (13.25%) Jenkins
4 8 (9.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (7.23%) Selenium
6 5 (6.02%) GitLab
6 5 (6.02%) SonarQube
6 5 (6.02%) Visual Studio
7 4 (4.82%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.82%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.82%) Maven
7 4 (4.82%) Newman
7 4 (4.82%) Postman
7 4 (4.82%) Vagrant
7 4 (4.82%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.41%) Moq
8 2 (2.41%) RStudio
8 2 (2.41%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.66%) Finance
3 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.02%) Banking
6 4 (4.82%) Marketing
7 3 (3.61%) Electronics
7 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (34.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (21.69%) Azure Engineer
3 14 (16.87%) Developer
4 12 (14.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.05%) Senior
6 7 (8.43%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Lead
7 5 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Consultant
9 3 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Digital Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (3.61%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.48%) JSON
2 10 (12.05%) .NET
2 10 (12.05%) AngularJS
3 9 (10.84%) CSS
4 8 (9.64%) XML
5 7 (8.43%) HTML
6 5 (6.02%) .NET Framework
6 5 (6.02%) ADO
6 5 (6.02%) Node.js
6 5 (6.02%) REST
6 5 (6.02%) RESTful
6 5 (6.02%) SOAP
7 4 (4.82%) ARM Templates
7 4 (4.82%) ASP.NET
7 4 (4.82%) FastAPI
7 4 (4.82%) LDAP
7 4 (4.82%) NETCONF
7 4 (4.82%) RESTCONF
7 4 (4.82%) YANG
8 3 (3.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.61%) Tandem
5 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.41%) Wiki
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) CMDB
6 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.20%) IoT
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.51%) Linux
2 8 (9.64%) CentOS
3 5 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.02%) VMS
4 4 (4.82%) Debian
4 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.82%) Unix
4 4 (4.82%) Windows
5 1 (1.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (65.06%) DevOps
2 44 (53.01%) CI/CD
3 35 (42.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (34.94%) Agile
5 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (24.10%) Test Automation
7 19 (22.89%) Containerisation
8 18 (21.69%) Scrum
9 14 (16.87%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (13.25%) Analytics
11 9 (10.84%) ETL
11 9 (10.84%) Unit Testing
12 8 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (9.64%) DevSecOps
13 7 (8.43%) Capacity Management
13 7 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (8.43%) Deployment Automation
13 7 (8.43%) Product Thinking
13 7 (8.43%) Software Engineering
13 7 (8.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 43 (51.81%) Python
2 30 (36.14%) SQL
3 28 (33.73%) PowerShell
4 15 (18.07%) Bicep
5 14 (16.87%) C#
5 14 (16.87%) Shell Script
6 9 (10.84%) Bash
7 8 (9.64%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.64%) PHP
8 6 (7.23%) PL/SQL
8 6 (7.23%) TypeScript
9 5 (6.02%) Java
10 4 (4.82%) Rust
11 2 (2.41%) Go
11 2 (2.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) Azure Certification
3 6 (7.23%) Degree
4 3 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.41%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) GDPR
1 3 (3.61%) NCSC
2 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 20 (24.10%) Docker
2 6 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.82%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (44.58%) Terraform
2 30 (36.14%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.87%) Ansible
4 10 (12.05%) Puppet
5 4 (4.82%) Nessus
5 4 (4.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.41%) Grafana
7 2 (2.41%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.41%) Salt
7 2 (2.41%) SCCM
7 2 (2.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.20%) Argo
8 1 (1.20%) Rancher
8 1 (1.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.05%) VMware
3 8 (9.64%) Cisco
4 6 (7.23%) Oracle
5 5 (6.02%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.82%) Planview
6 4 (4.82%) Sophos
6 4 (4.82%) Splunk
6 4 (4.82%) Sybase
7 3 (3.61%) Google
7 3 (3.61%) HP
7 3 (3.61%) IBM
7 3 (3.61%) SAP
7 3 (3.61%) UiPath
8 2 (2.41%) Databricks
8 2 (2.41%) SendGrid
9 1 (1.20%) Darktrace
9 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.20%) Virgin Media