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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 408 406
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -70
Contract jobs citing YAML 186 77 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.31% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.35% 1.40% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 58 107
10th Percentile £400 £359 £414
25th Percentile £413 £457 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £550 £631 £650
90th Percentile £621 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 -
% change year-on-year -48.65% - -

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 7,918 5,500 7,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.94% 22.38% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,280 3,809 5,358
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.34%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 94 194
10th Percentile £34.25 £29.42 £20.95
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £82.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -5 90 £538 +7.39% 13
North of England -23 46 £500 -9.71% 8
Yorkshire -28 29 £515 -11.59% 1
Midlands -45 22 £438 -27.08% 1
West Midlands -46 20 £416 -30.67%
North West -20 17 £431 -17.90% 1
South East -52 17 £525 -16.00% 10
South West -32 3 £500 -20.00% 3
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 1
East of England - 1 £525 - 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 11 (5.91%) Confluence
2 5 (2.69%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.69%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.08%) SAS
4 1 (0.54%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (53.76%) Azure
2 55 (29.57%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (15.59%) AWS
3 29 (15.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 27 (14.52%) GitHub
5 18 (9.68%) Entra ID
6 17 (9.14%) Serverless
7 16 (8.60%) PaaS
8 15 (8.06%) GCP
9 14 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (7.53%) Power Platform
10 13 (6.99%) Azure AKS
11 12 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (6.45%) Datadog
11 12 (6.45%) OpenShift
12 11 (5.91%) Azure Service Fabric
13 10 (5.38%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (4.84%) Amazon S3
15 8 (4.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.23%) Firewall
1 6 (3.23%) VPN
2 3 (1.61%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.08%) HTTP
4 1 (0.54%) DNS
4 1 (0.54%) LAN
4 1 (0.54%) SSL
4 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.22%) Data Warehouse
1 19 (10.22%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.14%) Metadata
3 14 (7.53%) Power BI
4 12 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.38%) Data Lake
6 9 (4.84%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.23%) Delta Lake
8 6 (3.23%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.23%) Spark SQL
9 5 (2.69%) Big Data
9 5 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.15%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.15%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (22.04%) Jenkins
2 39 (20.97%) Git
3 30 (16.13%) GitLab
4 18 (9.68%) SonarQube
5 16 (8.60%) JIRA
6 9 (4.84%) Maven
7 7 (3.76%) JUnit
8 6 (3.23%) Mockito
9 5 (2.69%) Postman
10 3 (1.61%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.61%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.08%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.08%) ER Studio
11 2 (1.08%) ERwin
11 2 (1.08%) NUnit
11 2 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
12 1 (0.54%) git-flow
12 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.54%) Travis CI
12 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (13.98%) Finance
1 26 (13.98%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.38%) Banking
4 10 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.69%) Publishing
7 1 (0.54%) Electronics
7 1 (0.54%) Law
7 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (24.19%) Developer
2 34 (18.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (15.59%) Data Engineer
4 27 (14.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (12.37%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (10.22%) Senior
7 11 (5.91%) Lead
8 10 (5.38%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Architect
11 7 (3.76%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.76%) Administrator
12 6 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Salesforce Developer
13 5 (2.69%) Cloud Specialist
13 5 (2.69%) React Developer
13 5 (2.69%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (2.69%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.89%) Node.js
2 32 (17.20%) JSON
3 21 (11.29%) RESTful
4 20 (10.75%) ARM Templates
5 18 (9.68%) .NET
6 17 (9.14%) Django
7 16 (8.60%) Entity Framework
7 16 (8.60%) Flask
8 14 (7.53%) GraphQL
8 14 (7.53%) Playwright
8 14 (7.53%) React
8 14 (7.53%) Vitest
8 14 (7.53%) XML
9 12 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (5.38%) PySpark
10 10 (5.38%) REST
11 9 (4.84%) Swagger
12 8 (4.30%) SLSA
13 7 (3.76%) .NET Core
13 7 (3.76%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (2.69%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.61%) Wiki
5 2 (1.08%) Clustering
5 2 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.08%) NHS
5 2 (1.08%) PACS
5 2 (1.08%) STIX
5 2 (1.08%) YARA
6 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.05%) Linux
2 9 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (4.84%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.30%) CentOS
4 5 (2.69%) Windows
5 3 (1.61%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (76.34%) CI/CD
2 134 (72.04%) DevOps
3 61 (32.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (29.57%) Agile
5 37 (19.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (18.28%) Containerisation
6 34 (18.28%) Mentoring
7 32 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.52%) Software Engineering
9 24 (12.90%) RBAC
9 24 (12.90%) Test Automation
10 23 (12.37%) Data Engineering
11 21 (11.29%) Data Integration
12 19 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (10.22%) Data Modelling
13 18 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (9.68%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (9.68%) Migration
13 18 (9.68%) Workflow
14 17 (9.14%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 98 (52.69%) Python
2 72 (38.71%) SQL
3 26 (13.98%) PowerShell
4 25 (13.44%) Java
5 24 (12.90%) C#
6 22 (11.83%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.75%) Bash
8 19 (10.22%) Bicep
9 18 (9.68%) TypeScript
10 9 (4.84%) Groovy
10 9 (4.84%) Ruby
11 8 (4.30%) Perl
12 7 (3.76%) Shell Script
12 7 (3.76%) T-SQL
13 6 (3.23%) PL/SQL
14 5 (2.69%) Apex Code
14 5 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (2.69%) R
14 5 (2.69%) Scala
15 3 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.38%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.84%) RHCE
5 4 (2.15%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.08%) CISSP
7 2 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.08%) GCFA
7 2 (1.08%) GCIA
7 2 (1.08%) GCIH
8 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.54%) Degree
8 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.84%) QA
3 4 (2.15%) GDPR
4 3 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.08%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.08%) NIST
6 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (29.57%) Docker
2 13 (6.99%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.08%) HDFS
4 2 (1.08%) Xen
5 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (28.49%) Terraform
2 40 (21.51%) Kubernetes
3 38 (20.43%) Ansible
4 17 (9.14%) Grafana
5 16 (8.60%) Prometheus
6 15 (8.06%) Puppet
7 7 (3.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (3.76%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.15%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.15%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.08%) Podman
10 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.54%) Istio
10 1 (0.54%) Kibana
10 1 (0.54%) logstash
10 1 (0.54%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 29 (15.59%) Red Hat
3 22 (11.83%) Databricks
4 11 (5.91%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.30%) Sonatype
5 8 (4.30%) Veracode
6 5 (2.69%) Oracle
6 5 (2.69%) Splunk
7 4 (2.15%) NEC
8 3 (1.61%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.08%) F5
9 2 (1.08%) OpenText
10 1 (0.54%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.54%) Google
10 1 (0.54%) IBM
10 1 (0.54%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.54%) Talend