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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 371 421
Rank change year-on-year -30 +50 +83
Contract jobs citing YAML 115 138 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.44% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.75% 2.01% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 82 125
10th Percentile £359 £475 £453
25th Percentile £418 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.32% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £663 £643 £680
90th Percentile £700 £699 £735
UK median daily rate £503 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -12.23% -4.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £56.38 £76.25
25th Percentile £100.00 £56.56 £76.69
Median hourly rate £105.00 £58.75 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.72% -24.68% +40.86%
75th Percentile £110.00 £61.56 £87.19
90th Percentile - £62.13 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £105.00 £58.75 £78.00
% change year-on-year +78.72% -24.68% +40.86%

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 6,581 6,855 8,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.87% 22.00% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,432 4,370 6,561
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -7.00% -1.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 119 181
10th Percentile £31.05 £27.00 £37.75
25th Percentile £42.75 £44.84 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +17.12% -14.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.56 £73.80 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.99% -14.52%

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 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 +7 62 £476 -13.41% 26
Midlands -25 23 £700 +19.66% 2
West Midlands -20 21 £700 +19.66% 2
South East -7 14 £435 -25.64% 17
South West +10 12 £700 +20.27% 2
North of England -35 8 £420 -32.48% 15
North West -19 6 £420 +1.82% 9
East of England -14 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £488 -
Yorkshire -36 1 £400 -35.85% 5
North East - 1 - - 1
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 7 (6.09%) Apache
2 6 (5.22%) Confluence
3 5 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.35%) IIS
4 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (3.48%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.74%) SAS
5 2 (1.74%) Traefik
6 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (61.74%) Azure
2 44 (38.26%) Azure DevOps
2 44 (38.26%) GitHub
3 24 (20.87%) AWS
4 17 (14.78%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (13.04%) GCP
5 15 (13.04%) OpenShift
6 14 (12.17%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (10.43%) SaaS
8 10 (8.70%) Azure AKS
8 10 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (7.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (7.83%) IaaS
10 7 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (6.09%) Azure API Management
10 7 (6.09%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (6.09%) Serverless
11 6 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (5.22%) Datadog
11 6 (5.22%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.57%) DNS
2 8 (6.96%) Firewall
3 7 (6.09%) Network Security
4 5 (4.35%) DHCP
5 4 (3.48%) SMTP
5 4 (3.48%) VPN
6 3 (2.61%) BGP
7 2 (1.74%) Calico
7 2 (1.74%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.74%) MPLS
8 1 (0.87%) HTTP
8 1 (0.87%) IPsec
8 1 (0.87%) LAN
8 1 (0.87%) MQTT
8 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.87%) VLAN
8 1 (0.87%) VRRP
8 1 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (11.30%) Redis
2 6 (5.22%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.22%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.48%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.61%) Parquet
5 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.74%) Power BI
6 2 (1.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.87%) MySQL
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (15.65%) Git
2 16 (13.91%) SonarQube
3 15 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 14 (12.17%) JIRA
5 13 (11.30%) GitLab
6 9 (7.83%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.35%) Artifactory
7 5 (4.35%) Selenium
8 4 (3.48%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.48%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.48%) Gradle
8 4 (3.48%) JUnit
8 4 (3.48%) Maven
8 4 (3.48%) Postman
8 4 (3.48%) Snyk
8 4 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (3.48%) webpack
9 2 (1.74%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.83%) Finance
4 6 (5.22%) Law
5 4 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Banking
6 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (29.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (12.17%) Developer
3 12 (10.43%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (10.43%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 11 (9.57%) Senior
5 10 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Administrator
7 5 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (4.35%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Architect
9 3 (2.61%) Cloud Specialist
9 3 (2.61%) Consultant
9 3 (2.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.04%) Node.js
2 14 (12.17%) JSON
3 12 (10.43%) .NET
4 10 (8.70%) ADO
4 10 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (8.70%) Kafka
5 9 (7.83%) GraphQL
5 9 (7.83%) Keycloak
5 9 (7.83%) REST
6 8 (6.96%) Playwright
6 8 (6.96%) Vitest
7 6 (5.22%) ARM Templates
7 6 (5.22%) PySpark
8 5 (4.35%) Jest
8 5 (4.35%) OAuth
9 4 (3.48%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.48%) .NET Framework
9 4 (3.48%) RESTful
9 4 (3.48%) XML
10 3 (2.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.48%) PKI
3 4 (3.48%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.61%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.61%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) STIX
5 2 (1.74%) YARA
6 1 (0.87%) CUDA
6 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (0.87%) Replication
6 1 (0.87%) Robotics
6 1 (0.87%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 28 (24.35%) Linux
2 10 (8.70%) Windows
3 5 (4.35%) Unix
3 5 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.74%) CentOS
4 2 (1.74%) VMS
5 1 (0.87%) Android
5 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.87%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (81.74%) DevOps
2 90 (78.26%) CI/CD
3 67 (58.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (47.83%) Agile
5 46 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 28 (24.35%) Test Automation
7 26 (22.61%) DevSecOps
7 26 (22.61%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (14.78%) Observability
10 16 (13.91%) Software Engineering
11 15 (13.04%) Mentoring
12 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (12.17%) Scrum
13 13 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (9.57%) Analytics
14 11 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (9.57%) Regulatory Compliance
14 11 (9.57%) SDLC
15 10 (8.70%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (33.04%) Python
2 26 (22.61%) PowerShell
3 22 (19.13%) SQL
4 20 (17.39%) Bash
5 19 (16.52%) Bicep
6 9 (7.83%) C#
6 9 (7.83%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.61%) Go
8 3 (2.61%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.61%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.74%) Java
10 1 (0.87%) C++
10 1 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.87%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.65%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.22%) Degree
5 4 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.74%) CISSP
6 2 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.74%) GCFA
6 2 (1.74%) GCIA
6 2 (1.74%) GCIH
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) NCSC
2 4 (3.48%) QA
3 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.74%) NIST
3 2 (1.74%) WCAG
4 1 (0.87%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 47 (40.87%) Docker
2 11 (9.57%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.87%) etcd
5 1 (0.87%) iptables
5 1 (0.87%) KVM
5 1 (0.87%) Squid
Systems Management
1 55 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 50 (43.48%) Terraform
3 30 (26.09%) Ansible
4 20 (17.39%) Grafana
5 17 (14.78%) Prometheus
6 10 (8.70%) Packer
6 10 (8.70%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.09%) Puppet
8 5 (4.35%) Podman
9 3 (2.61%) Argo
10 2 (1.74%) Istio
10 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.87%) Control-M
11 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (13.91%) Splunk
2 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.83%) Databricks
4 7 (6.09%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.22%) Google
6 5 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.35%) VMware
7 4 (3.48%) Oracle
8 3 (2.61%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.74%) Cisco
9 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.87%) AlgoSec
10 1 (0.87%) Citrix
10 1 (0.87%) Juniper
10 1 (0.87%) NetApp
10 1 (0.87%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.87%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.87%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.87%) Virgin Media