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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 386 401
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 -34
Contract jobs citing YAML 187 85 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.39% 1.55% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 57 109
10th Percentile £389 £385 £413
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +0.34%
75th Percentile £550 £645 £656
90th Percentile £605 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £590
% change year-on-year -6.98% -8.90% +5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile - £63.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £73.75 -
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 7,821 5,501 7,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.89% 22.62% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,772 5,366
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 86 180
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.30 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £82.53 £75.00
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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -18 87 £525 +5.53% 14
North of England -28 46 £500 -14.16% 5
Yorkshire -38 27 £520 -10.73% 2
Midlands -50 25 £450 -37.93% 6
West Midlands -46 23 £450 -37.93% 4
North West - 19 £430 - 1
South East -54 17 £460 -26.40% 21
South West -24 7 £800 +30.61% 2
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 3
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 12 (6.42%) Confluence
2 6 (3.21%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.07%) Apache
4 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.07%) SAS
5 1 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) IIS
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 107 (57.22%) Azure
2 59 (31.55%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (16.04%) GitHub
4 27 (14.44%) AWS
4 27 (14.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (9.63%) Entra ID
5 18 (9.63%) PaaS
5 18 (9.63%) Serverless
6 15 (8.02%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.49%) Datadog
7 14 (7.49%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (6.42%) Azure AKS
8 12 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (6.42%) GCP
9 11 (5.88%) Azure Service Fabric
10 10 (5.35%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (5.35%) IaaS
10 10 (5.35%) OpenShift
10 10 (5.35%) SaaS
11 9 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.74%) Firewall
2 6 (3.21%) VPN
3 3 (1.60%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.07%) DNS
4 2 (1.07%) HTTP
4 2 (1.07%) LAN
4 2 (1.07%) WAN
5 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.53%) SSL
5 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.70%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.49%) Power BI
4 12 (6.42%) Metadata
5 10 (5.35%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.35%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.21%) Delta Lake
7 6 (3.21%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.21%) Redis
7 6 (3.21%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.67%) Big Data
9 4 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.14%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (21.93%) Jenkins
2 35 (18.72%) Git
3 33 (17.65%) GitLab
4 20 (10.70%) SonarQube
5 17 (9.09%) JIRA
6 8 (4.28%) JUnit
7 7 (3.74%) Maven
8 6 (3.21%) Mockito
8 6 (3.21%) Postman
9 4 (2.14%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.60%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.60%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (1.07%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.07%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.07%) Gradle
11 2 (1.07%) Selenium
11 2 (1.07%) Snyk
11 2 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.07%) webpack
General
1 27 (14.44%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.23%) Finance
3 18 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.35%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.35%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.28%) Banking
7 3 (1.60%) Publishing
8 1 (0.53%) Law
8 1 (0.53%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (27.27%) Developer
2 36 (19.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (16.58%) Full-Stack Developer
4 27 (14.44%) Data Engineer
5 22 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (9.09%) Senior
7 11 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 11 (5.88%) Lead
8 9 (4.81%) Azure Data Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) .NET Developer
9 8 (4.28%) Architect
10 7 (3.74%) Administrator
11 6 (3.21%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Salesforce Developer
11 6 (3.21%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.67%) Cloud Specialist
12 5 (2.67%) React Developer
12 5 (2.67%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (2.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (21.39%) Node.js
2 25 (13.37%) JSON
3 20 (10.70%) .NET
3 20 (10.70%) ARM Templates
4 19 (10.16%) RESTful
5 17 (9.09%) Django
6 16 (8.56%) Flask
6 16 (8.56%) GraphQL
6 16 (8.56%) Playwright
6 16 (8.56%) Vitest
7 15 (8.02%) Entity Framework
7 15 (8.02%) React
8 14 (7.49%) XML
9 12 (6.42%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (5.88%) REST
11 10 (5.35%) PySpark
12 9 (4.81%) Swagger
13 8 (4.28%) Kafka
14 7 (3.74%) .NET Core
14 7 (3.74%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.60%) Wiki
6 2 (1.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.07%) NHS
6 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.07%) PACS
6 2 (1.07%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.07%) STIX
6 2 (1.07%) YARA
7 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.04%) Linux
2 9 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (4.81%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.28%) CentOS
4 6 (3.21%) Windows
5 2 (1.07%) Unix
5 2 (1.07%) VMS
5 2 (1.07%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (79.14%) CI/CD
2 137 (73.26%) DevOps
3 69 (36.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (32.62%) Agile
5 41 (21.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 35 (18.72%) Containerisation
7 33 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 33 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.44%) Test Automation
9 26 (13.90%) Software Engineering
10 24 (12.83%) Data Engineering
10 24 (12.83%) RBAC
11 22 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.70%) Data Integration
13 18 (9.63%) API Design
13 18 (9.63%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (9.63%) DevSecOps
13 18 (9.63%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (44.92%) Python
2 73 (39.04%) SQL
3 28 (14.97%) PowerShell
4 24 (12.83%) Java
5 23 (12.30%) C#
6 22 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.70%) TypeScript
8 19 (10.16%) Bash
9 18 (9.63%) Bicep
10 9 (4.81%) Ruby
11 8 (4.28%) Perl
12 7 (3.74%) T-SQL
13 6 (3.21%) Groovy
14 5 (2.67%) Apex Code
14 5 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (2.67%) R
14 5 (2.67%) Scala
15 4 (2.14%) PL/SQL
16 3 (1.60%) PHP
16 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (24.06%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.81%) RHCE
5 5 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.60%) Degree
6 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.07%) CISSP
7 2 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.07%) GCFA
7 2 (1.07%) GCIA
7 2 (1.07%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.35%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.35%) QA
2 4 (2.14%) GDPR
3 3 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (1.60%) NCSC
4 2 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.07%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.07%) NIST
4 2 (1.07%) WCAG
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 61 (32.62%) Docker
2 13 (6.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.07%) HDFS
4 2 (1.07%) Xen
Systems Management
1 54 (28.88%) Terraform
2 45 (24.06%) Kubernetes
3 36 (19.25%) Ansible
4 19 (10.16%) Grafana
5 18 (9.63%) Prometheus
6 16 (8.56%) Puppet
7 8 (4.28%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.60%) Podman
10 2 (1.07%) Packer
11 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.53%) Istio
11 1 (0.53%) Kibana
11 1 (0.53%) logstash
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (16.04%) Red Hat
2 29 (15.51%) Microsoft
3 21 (11.23%) Databricks
4 11 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.28%) Veracode
6 6 (3.21%) Splunk
7 5 (2.67%) Sonatype
8 4 (2.14%) NEC
9 3 (1.60%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.60%) Oracle
10 2 (1.07%) F5
11 1 (0.53%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.53%) Google
11 1 (0.53%) IBM
11 1 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.53%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.53%) Talend