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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 392 335
Rank change year-on-year -32 -57 +232
Contract jobs citing YAML 64 139 343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.38% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.85% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 101 243
10th Percentile £346 £415 £458
25th Percentile £440 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.63% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £703
90th Percentile £675 £688 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £559 £560
% change year-on-year -10.51% -0.22% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile £91.25 - £74.25
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £93.75 - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £87.60
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 5,394 7,506 11,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.26% 20.62% 22.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,734 5,332 8,244
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.70% -1.84%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £798 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 231 127
10th Percentile £33.25 £22.50 £25.75
25th Percentile £50.80 £43.00 £50.65
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.64 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.43 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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 21 May 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
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 21 May 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 +2 37 £501 -19.27% 39
South East +46 14 £563 +28.57% 32
Midlands +20 6 £475 +26.67% 3
West Midlands +13 5 £475 +26.67%
North of England -4 4 £425 -17.07% 7
South West +29 3 £638 +21.43% 1
North West +7 2 £488 -5.11% 2
Yorkshire -9 2 £358 -25.29% 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 3
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 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 11 (17.19%) Apache
3 6 (9.38%) Jupyter
4 3 (4.69%) Confluence
5 2 (3.13%) nginx
5 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 48 (75.00%) Azure
2 26 (40.63%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (21.88%) Power Platform
4 11 (17.19%) Azure AKS
5 10 (15.63%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (15.63%) GitHub
6 7 (10.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (10.94%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (10.94%) OpenShift
7 6 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (7.81%) Azure API Management
8 5 (7.81%) Azure Functions
8 5 (7.81%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (7.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (7.81%) Serverless
9 4 (6.25%) AWS
9 4 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
9 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.25%) SaaS
10 3 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) DNS
2 6 (9.38%) SSH
3 5 (7.81%) HTTP
3 5 (7.81%) SSL
4 4 (6.25%) Firewall
4 4 (6.25%) SAN
5 3 (4.69%) BGP
5 3 (4.69%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (4.69%) FTP
5 3 (4.69%) SMTP
5 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.13%) DHCP
6 2 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.13%) IPv6
6 2 (3.13%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (3.13%) OSPF
6 2 (3.13%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (3.13%) TACACS
6 2 (3.13%) VLAN
6 2 (3.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) Power BI
2 13 (20.31%) SQL Server
3 9 (14.06%) Delta Lake
4 8 (12.50%) Apache Hive
4 8 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (6.25%) Big Data
6 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.69%) SSDT
7 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
7 2 (3.13%) Parquet
8 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.56%) Redis
8 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (32.81%) Git
2 13 (20.31%) JIRA
3 6 (9.38%) RStudio
4 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.69%) GitLab
5 3 (4.69%) Selenium
5 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.13%) Maven
6 2 (3.13%) Moq
6 2 (3.13%) Postman
6 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.56%) Ranorex
7 1 (1.56%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.56%) Snyk
7 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Finance
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.06%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.69%) Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Electronics
7 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.13%) Marketing
8 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (26.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Data Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Developer
4 6 (9.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Lead
6 4 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior
6 4 (6.25%) Site Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) JSON
2 12 (18.75%) .NET
3 11 (17.19%) PySpark
4 8 (12.50%) pydantic
5 6 (9.38%) XML
6 5 (7.81%) ARM Templates
7 4 (6.25%) .NET Framework
7 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (6.25%) RESTful
8 3 (4.69%) ADO
8 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.69%) CSS
8 3 (4.69%) HTML
8 3 (4.69%) Kafka
8 3 (4.69%) OAuth
8 3 (4.69%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (4.69%) REST
8 3 (4.69%) SOAP
9 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 8 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 7 (10.94%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) CMDB
6 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.56%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.69%) Linux
2 3 (4.69%) CentOS
3 2 (3.13%) Debian
3 2 (3.13%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.13%) Windows
4 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.56%) SUSE
4 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (67.19%) DevOps
2 32 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 25 (39.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (35.94%) Agile
5 17 (26.56%) Containerisation
5 17 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (26.56%) Scrum
6 10 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
8 8 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (10.94%) Analytics
9 7 (10.94%) Data Security
9 7 (10.94%) Observability
9 7 (10.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
10 6 (9.38%) B2B
10 6 (9.38%) DevSecOps
10 6 (9.38%) ETL
11 5 (7.81%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.88%) Python
2 18 (28.13%) SQL
3 15 (23.44%) Bash
3 15 (23.44%) PowerShell
4 14 (21.88%) C#
5 11 (17.19%) Bicep
6 8 (12.50%) Scala
7 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
7 6 (9.38%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.69%) Java
8 3 (4.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.69%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) GDPR
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.13%) NCSC
2 2 (3.13%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (17.19%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Ceph
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (35.94%) Kubernetes
1 23 (35.94%) Terraform
2 10 (15.63%) Ansible
3 6 (9.38%) Grafana
3 6 (9.38%) Puppet
4 4 (6.25%) Argo
4 4 (6.25%) Salt
5 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.13%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.13%) Nessus
7 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.56%) Packer
7 1 (1.56%) Rancher
7 1 (1.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Databricks
2 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.81%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.25%) Cisco
5 3 (4.69%) UiPath
6 2 (3.13%) Dell
6 2 (3.13%) Oracle
6 2 (3.13%) SAP
6 2 (3.13%) Sophos
6 2 (3.13%) VMware
7 1 (1.56%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.56%) Google
7 1 (1.56%) Planview
7 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.56%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) Virgin Media