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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 422 401
Rank change year-on-year -25 -21 -45
Contract jobs citing YAML 170 74 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.29% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.03% 1.28% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 60 101
10th Percentile £403 £349 £463
25th Percentile £429 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £491 £585
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -16.03% +1.74%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £498 £575
% change year-on-year +5.53% -13.48% -
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 8,358 5,803 7,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.05% 22.47% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,512 4,004 5,536
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 124 263
10th Percentile £30.40 £30.55 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.88 £49.06 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +0.99% -10.31%
75th Percentile £74.63 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.89 £80.71 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 2 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 2 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 -36 77 £563 +15.38% 11
North of England -32 46 £500 +17.65% 4
Yorkshire -16 30 £515 +43.95% 1
Midlands -36 21 £407 -16.51% 3
West Midlands -45 19 £407 -25.53% 2
South East -57 18 £525 +5.00% 4
North West -36 16 £431 -11.59% 1
East Midlands -18 2 £525 +7.69% 1
South West -34 1 - - 1
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 (6.47%) Confluence
2 7 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.94%) Apache
4 4 (2.35%) nginx
4 4 (2.35%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.76%) IIS
5 3 (1.76%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.59%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.59%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.59%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 95 (55.88%) Azure
2 61 (35.88%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (25.29%) AWS
4 37 (21.76%) GitHub
5 25 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (12.94%) GCP
7 19 (11.18%) Azure AKS
8 18 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (10.59%) Power Platform
9 15 (8.82%) Entra ID
10 13 (7.65%) Serverless
11 12 (7.06%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (7.06%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (6.47%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.88%) Amazon S3
14 8 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (4.12%) OCI
15 7 (4.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) Firewall
2 5 (2.94%) DNS
3 3 (1.76%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.76%) NAS
3 3 (1.76%) SAN
4 2 (1.18%) DSL
4 2 (1.18%) Internet
4 2 (1.18%) VPN
5 1 (0.59%) DHCP
5 1 (0.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.59%) SSH
5 1 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.18%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (9.41%) Metadata
4 13 (7.65%) Power BI
5 11 (6.47%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.53%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.53%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.94%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.35%) MySQL
9 4 (2.35%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.76%) Data Hub
10 3 (1.76%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 38 (22.35%) Git
2 35 (20.59%) GitLab
3 30 (17.65%) Jenkins
4 20 (11.76%) SonarQube
5 18 (10.59%) JIRA
6 10 (5.88%) Maven
7 8 (4.71%) JUnit
7 8 (4.71%) Mockito
8 5 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.94%) MLflow
8 5 (2.94%) Postman
9 3 (1.76%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.76%) NUnit
10 2 (1.18%) ER Studio
10 2 (1.18%) ERwin
10 2 (1.18%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (1.18%) Selenium
11 1 (0.59%) Moq
11 1 (0.59%) Serilog
11 1 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (20.59%) Finance
2 32 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.41%) Banking
5 9 (5.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.12%) Publishing
7 6 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.18%) Law
9 1 (0.59%) Electronics
9 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (21.76%) Developer
2 32 (18.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (12.94%) Full-Stack Developer
4 19 (11.18%) Data Engineer
5 18 (10.59%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (8.24%) Architect
6 14 (8.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 14 (8.24%) Senior
7 9 (5.29%) Lead
8 8 (4.71%) .NET Developer
8 8 (4.71%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.12%) Analyst
10 6 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) Salesforce Developer
11 5 (2.94%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 5 (2.94%) Python Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) React Developer
11 5 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.24%) JSON
2 25 (14.71%) Node.js
3 20 (11.76%) RESTful
4 17 (10.00%) .NET
4 17 (10.00%) Django
5 16 (9.41%) Flask
6 14 (8.24%) React
7 12 (7.06%) Kafka
8 11 (6.47%) ARM Templates
8 11 (6.47%) REST
9 10 (5.88%) SLSA
10 9 (5.29%) Entity Framework
10 9 (5.29%) Swagger
11 8 (4.71%) XML
12 7 (4.12%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.12%) OpenAPI
12 7 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (4.12%) SOAP
13 6 (3.53%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.35%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.76%) Wiki
5 2 (1.18%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.18%) Clustering
5 2 (1.18%) CMDB
5 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.18%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.29%) Linux
2 10 (5.88%) Windows
3 8 (4.71%) CentOS
3 8 (4.71%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.18%) Unix
6 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (72.94%) CI/CD
2 103 (60.59%) DevOps
3 48 (28.24%) Agile
3 48 (28.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (20.59%) Containerisation
5 28 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (15.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (15.29%) Test Automation
7 21 (12.35%) Data Modelling
7 21 (12.35%) Observability
7 21 (12.35%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (11.76%) DevSecOps
8 20 (11.76%) RBAC
9 19 (11.18%) Analytics
9 19 (11.18%) Data Integration
9 19 (11.18%) Workflow
10 18 (10.59%) AI
10 18 (10.59%) ETL
10 18 (10.59%) Migration
11 16 (9.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 92 (54.12%) Python
2 55 (32.35%) SQL
3 38 (22.35%) PowerShell
4 31 (18.24%) Java
5 29 (17.06%) Bash
6 23 (13.53%) C#
7 22 (12.94%) Bicep
8 18 (10.59%) JavaScript
9 11 (6.47%) Groovy
10 7 (4.12%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.53%) Apex Code
11 6 (3.53%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.94%) Perl
12 5 (2.94%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.94%) Ruby
13 4 (2.35%) Scala
13 4 (2.35%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.76%) R
15 2 (1.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.12%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.94%) RHCE
5 4 (2.35%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.76%) CISSP
6 3 (1.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.59%) CISM
8 1 (0.59%) CRISC
8 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.59%) Degree
8 1 (0.59%) GCFA
8 1 (0.59%) GCIA
8 1 (0.59%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.88%) QA
2 8 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.94%) GDPR
4 3 (1.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (1.76%) NIST
5 2 (1.18%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (23.53%) Docker
2 13 (7.65%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.76%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.76%) Postfix
6 2 (1.18%) NFS
6 2 (1.18%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (37.65%) Terraform
2 43 (25.29%) Kubernetes
3 38 (22.35%) Ansible
4 10 (5.88%) Grafana
5 9 (5.29%) Puppet
6 7 (4.12%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.94%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.35%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.35%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.76%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.18%) Argo
10 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.59%) Istio
11 1 (0.59%) Packer
11 1 (0.59%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 16 (9.41%) Databricks
3 16 (9.41%) Google
4 12 (7.06%) Salesforce
5 10 (5.88%) Sonatype
6 8 (4.71%) Veracode
7 6 (3.53%) F5
8 5 (2.94%) Splunk
9 4 (2.35%) NEC
9 4 (2.35%) Oracle
9 4 (2.35%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.76%) Cisco
10 3 (1.76%) IBM
10 3 (1.76%) Juniper
11 2 (1.18%) Brocade
11 2 (1.18%) Dell
11 2 (1.18%) FactSet
11 2 (1.18%) OpenText
11 2 (1.18%) VMware