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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 404 410
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 -13
Contract jobs citing YAML 178 86 148
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.33% 1.48% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 53 114
10th Percentile £381 £455 £419
25th Percentile £421 £500 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £574 £663 £666
90th Percentile £658 £701 £690
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -11.30% -3.36% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile - £56.63 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £57.19 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £76.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.70% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £73.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £76.25 -
% change year-on-year -37.70% - -

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 7,655 5,800 7,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.71% 22.67% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,155 3,795 5,444
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £418 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 80 208
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.04 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.31 £43.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £78.85 £80.10 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -17 81 £525 -4.55% 19
North of England -20 46 £500 -14.16% 5
Yorkshire -38 26 £525 -9.87% 1
Midlands -42 24 £575 -20.69% 8
West Midlands -39 23 £575 -20.69% 6
North West - 19 £420 - 3
South East -41 15 £493 -21.83% 16
South West -16 11 £700 +14.29%
East of England - 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £600 - 2
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 15 (8.43%) Confluence
2 8 (4.49%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.12%) SAS
5 2 (1.12%) Traefik
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) nginx
6 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 91 (51.12%) Azure
2 46 (25.84%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (19.10%) GitHub
4 29 (16.29%) AWS
5 20 (11.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (10.11%) Entra ID
7 17 (9.55%) Serverless
8 16 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (8.99%) PaaS
9 15 (8.43%) Power Platform
10 14 (7.87%) OpenShift
10 14 (7.87%) SaaS
11 13 (7.30%) Datadog
12 11 (6.18%) Azure Service Fabric
12 11 (6.18%) GCP
13 10 (5.62%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (5.62%) IaaS
14 9 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (5.06%) Azure AKS
15 8 (4.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.37%) Firewall
1 6 (3.37%) VPN
2 3 (1.69%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.12%) Calico
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
3 2 (1.12%) HTTP
3 2 (1.12%) LAN
3 2 (1.12%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.11%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.87%) Power BI
4 13 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (6.18%) Metadata
5 11 (6.18%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.62%) Data Lake
7 9 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (4.49%) Redis
9 7 (3.93%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.37%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.37%) Spark SQL
11 5 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.81%) Big Data
12 4 (2.25%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (21.35%) Jenkins
2 32 (17.98%) Git
3 29 (16.29%) GitLab
4 25 (14.04%) SonarQube
5 21 (11.80%) JIRA
6 9 (5.06%) JUnit
7 8 (4.49%) Maven
8 7 (3.93%) Postman
9 6 (3.37%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.81%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.81%) Mockito
10 5 (2.81%) Selenium
11 4 (2.25%) Artifactory
11 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
11 4 (2.25%) Gradle
11 4 (2.25%) Snyk
11 4 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (2.25%) webpack
12 3 (1.69%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
General
1 29 (16.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.55%) Finance
4 13 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.93%) Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (21.91%) Developer
2 36 (20.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (13.48%) Data Engineer
4 20 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (10.11%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (9.55%) Senior
7 10 (5.62%) Lead
7 10 (5.62%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) Architect
8 9 (5.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) .NET Developer
9 7 (3.93%) Administrator
9 7 (3.93%) Azure Data Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Cloud Specialist
10 6 (3.37%) Salesforce Developer
10 6 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (2.81%) React Developer
11 5 (2.81%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.25%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.66%) Node.js
2 28 (15.73%) JSON
3 19 (10.67%) .NET
4 18 (10.11%) RESTful
5 17 (9.55%) GraphQL
5 17 (9.55%) Playwright
5 17 (9.55%) Vitest
6 16 (8.99%) ARM Templates
7 15 (8.43%) Entity Framework
7 15 (8.43%) XML
8 12 (6.74%) PySpark
8 12 (6.74%) REST
9 10 (5.62%) Kafka
9 10 (5.62%) React
10 9 (5.06%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (5.06%) Swagger
11 8 (4.49%) Django
12 7 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (3.93%) Flask
12 7 (3.93%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.25%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.69%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Wiki
6 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.12%) NHS
6 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.12%) PACS
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.56%) Replication
7 1 (0.56%) STIX
7 1 (0.56%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.10%) Linux
2 9 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (5.06%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.49%) CentOS
4 4 (2.25%) Windows
5 3 (1.69%) VMS
6 2 (1.12%) Unix
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (80.90%) CI/CD
2 128 (71.91%) DevOps
3 70 (39.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (36.52%) Agile
5 39 (21.91%) Containerisation
6 34 (19.10%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (19.10%) Mentoring
7 32 (17.98%) Test Automation
8 31 (17.42%) Software Engineering
9 30 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (14.04%) Data Engineering
11 24 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (12.92%) DevSecOps
12 23 (12.92%) RBAC
13 19 (10.67%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (10.11%) API Design
15 17 (9.55%) Coaching
15 17 (9.55%) Data Modelling
15 17 (9.55%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (9.55%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 70 (39.33%) Python
2 63 (35.39%) SQL
3 23 (12.92%) Java
4 22 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 21 (11.80%) C#
6 20 (11.24%) PowerShell
7 17 (9.55%) JavaScript
8 16 (8.99%) Bash
9 12 (6.74%) Bicep
10 9 (5.06%) Ruby
11 8 (4.49%) Perl
12 7 (3.93%) T-SQL
13 5 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (2.81%) R
13 5 (2.81%) Scala
14 4 (2.25%) Apex Code
14 4 (2.25%) Groovy
14 4 (2.25%) PL/SQL
14 4 (2.25%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 51 (28.65%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.18%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.06%) RHCE
5 7 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.81%) Degree
7 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) GCFA
9 1 (0.56%) GCIA
9 1 (0.56%) GCIH
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.06%) QA
3 7 (3.93%) NCSC
4 4 (2.25%) GDPR
5 3 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.12%) JSP 440
6 2 (1.12%) WCAG
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (35.96%) Docker
2 12 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) HDFS
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.12%) Xen
4 1 (0.56%) etcd
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (28.65%) Terraform
2 49 (27.53%) Kubernetes
3 36 (20.22%) Ansible
4 22 (12.36%) Grafana
5 18 (10.11%) Prometheus
6 13 (7.30%) Puppet
7 8 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (3.37%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.81%) Podman
11 2 (1.12%) Argo
11 2 (1.12%) Istio
11 2 (1.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.56%) Control-M
12 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.56%) Kibana
12 1 (0.56%) logstash
12 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (16.85%) Red Hat
2 28 (15.73%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.99%) Databricks
4 12 (6.74%) Salesforce
5 10 (5.62%) Splunk
6 8 (4.49%) Veracode
7 5 (2.81%) Oracle
8 4 (2.25%) NEC
8 4 (2.25%) Sonatype
9 3 (1.69%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.12%) F5
11 1 (0.56%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.56%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.56%) Talend
11 1 (0.56%) VMware