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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 412 350
Rank change year-on-year +15 -62 +195
Contract jobs citing YAML 77 138 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.37% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 1.83% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 108 242
10th Percentile £378 £412 £458
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £595
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% - +8.18%
75th Percentile £657 £658 £725
90th Percentile £685 £702 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £590 £563
% change year-on-year -11.02% +4.89% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £63.25 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.50 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +41.82%

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 5,449 7,533 12,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.47% 19.99% 23.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,762 5,405 9,312
10th Percentile £363 £343 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £798 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 168 148
10th Percentile £26.85 £20.77 £25.60
25th Percentile £51.20 £37.02 £45.00
Median hourly rate £64.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.79% -26.92% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £83.27 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +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 1 April 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 1 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for YAML in England

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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 April 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 45 £498 -19.76% 57
South East +62 16 £625 +25.00% 18
Midlands +29 8 £725 +41.46% 3
West Midlands +24 8 £725 +93.33% 2
Yorkshire +6 5 £583 +35.47% 2
North of England -3 5 £583 +34.68% 4
South West +35 4 £625 +19.05% 2
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 12 (15.58%) Apache Spark
2 8 (10.39%) Apache
3 7 (9.09%) Confluence
3 7 (9.09%) SharePoint
4 4 (5.19%) Jupyter
4 4 (5.19%) nginx
5 1 (1.30%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 56 (72.73%) Azure
2 31 (40.26%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (23.38%) GitHub
3 18 (23.38%) Power Platform
4 11 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 10 (12.99%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (10.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (10.39%) SaaS
8 7 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
8 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (9.09%) PaaS
8 7 (9.09%) PowerApps
9 6 (7.79%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (7.79%) IaaS
9 6 (7.79%) Serverless
10 5 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (6.49%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) Firewall
2 6 (7.79%) DNS
3 5 (6.49%) HTTP
3 5 (6.49%) SSL
4 4 (5.19%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (5.19%) SSH
4 4 (5.19%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.90%) FTP
5 3 (3.90%) SMTP
6 2 (2.60%) BGP
6 2 (2.60%) DHCP
6 2 (2.60%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (2.60%) MPLS
6 2 (2.60%) Network Security
6 2 (2.60%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (2.60%) SAN
6 2 (2.60%) VLAN
6 2 (2.60%) VPN
7 1 (1.30%) NGFW
7 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) Power BI
2 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.79%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.19%) Apache Hive
4 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.19%) Big Data
4 4 (5.19%) Delta Lake
4 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.90%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.90%) SSDT
6 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.60%) Parquet
7 1 (1.30%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.30%) MySQL
7 1 (1.30%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (25.97%) Git
2 14 (18.18%) JIRA
3 10 (12.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.79%) SonarQube
4 6 (7.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (5.19%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.19%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.19%) Newman
5 4 (5.19%) Postman
5 4 (5.19%) RStudio
5 4 (5.19%) Vagrant
5 4 (5.19%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (3.90%) GitLab
7 2 (2.60%) Maven
7 2 (2.60%) Moq
7 2 (2.60%) Selenium
7 2 (2.60%) Snyk
7 2 (2.60%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Finance
3 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.79%) Banking
5 2 (2.60%) Electronics
5 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.60%) Marketing
5 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (22.08%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Developer
4 9 (11.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) Senior
5 8 (10.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Site Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Digital Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Lead
9 3 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.68%) JSON
2 12 (15.58%) .NET
3 6 (7.79%) PySpark
3 6 (7.79%) XML
4 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.49%) ARM Templates
4 5 (6.49%) CSS
4 5 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (6.49%) RESTful
5 4 (5.19%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.19%) FastAPI
5 4 (5.19%) HTML
5 4 (5.19%) pydantic
6 3 (3.90%) ADO
6 3 (3.90%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.90%) Bootstrap
6 3 (3.90%) Kafka
6 3 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (3.90%) React
6 3 (3.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.49%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.19%) Reference Data
5 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.30%) CMDB
7 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.30%) IoT
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Tandem
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (29.87%) Linux
2 5 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (6.49%) VMS
3 4 (5.19%) CentOS
4 2 (2.60%) Debian
4 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.60%) Unix
4 2 (2.60%) Windows
5 1 (1.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (67.53%) DevOps
2 40 (51.95%) CI/CD
3 35 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (32.47%) Agile
5 20 (25.97%) Containerisation
5 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (22.08%) Test Automation
7 16 (20.78%) Scrum
8 15 (19.48%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (14.29%) Analytics
10 9 (11.69%) DevSecOps
10 9 (11.69%) Observability
10 9 (11.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (10.39%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
12 7 (9.09%) Data Engineering
12 7 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (9.09%) ETL
12 7 (9.09%) Product Thinking
12 7 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (53.25%) Python
2 27 (35.06%) PowerShell
3 22 (28.57%) SQL
4 16 (20.78%) C#
5 15 (19.48%) Bicep
6 13 (16.88%) Bash
7 10 (12.99%) Shell Script
8 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
9 6 (7.79%) PL/SQL
10 5 (6.49%) PHP
10 5 (6.49%) TypeScript
11 4 (5.19%) Java
11 4 (5.19%) Rust
11 4 (5.19%) Scala
12 3 (3.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (1.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.49%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.19%) Degree
4 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) GDPR
2 3 (3.90%) NCSC
3 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 19 (24.68%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.19%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (46.75%) Terraform
2 35 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 19 (24.68%) Ansible
4 10 (12.99%) Puppet
5 7 (9.09%) Grafana
6 4 (5.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.19%) Salt
7 3 (3.90%) HAProxy
7 3 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.60%) Argo
8 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.60%) Nessus
8 2 (2.60%) SCCM
9 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.30%) Packer
9 1 (1.30%) Rancher
9 1 (1.30%) vRealize
9 1 (1.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.09%) VMware
3 6 (7.79%) Cisco
3 6 (7.79%) Oracle
4 5 (6.49%) Databricks
4 5 (6.49%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.49%) Splunk
5 4 (5.19%) Planview
5 4 (5.19%) Sybase
6 3 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.90%) UiPath
7 2 (2.60%) Google
7 2 (2.60%) SAP
7 2 (2.60%) Sophos
8 1 (1.30%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.30%) HP
8 1 (1.30%) IBM
8 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.30%) Virgin Media