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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 402 371
Rank change year-on-year -86 -31 +52
Contract jobs citing YAML 137 113 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.40% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 1.58% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 79 96
10th Percentile £400 £356 £475
25th Percentile £475 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £503 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% -16.25% -
75th Percentile £660 £639 £638
90th Percentile £707 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £503 £582
% change year-on-year +4.48% -13.66% +1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.25 £100.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £92.50 £105.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +75.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £93.75 £110.00 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £105.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.90% +75.00% -23.08%

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 9,834 7,167 8,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.51% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,473 4,836 5,249
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £450 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 170 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.68 £41.34 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £54.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.65% -16.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -90 63 £600 +22.76% 72
North of England -44 28 £513 +22.02% 15
Yorkshire -14 21 £514 +28.58% 3
Midlands -48 16 £450 -31.71% 9
South East -59 16 £525 +10.53% 11
West Midlands -52 12 £413 -41.07% 6
South West -34 6 £674 -3.79% 6
East Midlands -16 4 £475 -2.56% 3
North East -37 4 £513 - 3
North West -53 3 £500 +19.05% 9
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 9 (6.57%) Confluence
2 8 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (5.84%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.11%) Apache
4 5 (3.65%) IIS
4 5 (3.65%) nginx
5 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.19%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 77 (56.20%) Azure
2 65 (47.45%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (39.42%) AWS
4 46 (33.58%) GitHub
5 25 (18.25%) GCP
6 23 (16.79%) Azure AKS
7 18 (13.14%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (11.68%) Power Platform
9 15 (10.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (10.95%) Entra ID
10 12 (8.76%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (8.03%) Amazon S3
11 11 (8.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (8.03%) Serverless
12 9 (6.57%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (5.84%) OCI
14 7 (5.11%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (5.11%) PaaS
15 6 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (4.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.68%) Firewall
2 15 (10.95%) BGP
3 13 (9.49%) DNS
3 13 (9.49%) Ethernet VPN
3 13 (9.49%) VXLAN
4 12 (8.76%) NX-OS
5 9 (6.57%) TACACS
6 6 (4.38%) Network Security
7 5 (3.65%) BIG-IP
7 5 (3.65%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (3.65%) NAS
8 4 (2.92%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (2.92%) DHCP
8 4 (2.92%) VPN
9 3 (2.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (2.19%) OSPF
9 3 (2.19%) SAN
9 3 (2.19%) SSL
10 2 (1.46%) DSL
10 2 (1.46%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (8.76%) Metadata
2 11 (8.03%) Data Lake
3 9 (6.57%) Power BI
4 6 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.38%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.65%) Data Hub
5 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.19%) MySQL
7 3 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.46%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.46%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (34.31%) Git
2 33 (24.09%) GitLab
3 21 (15.33%) Jenkins
4 12 (8.76%) SonarQube
5 10 (7.30%) JIRA
6 9 (6.57%) Maven
7 7 (5.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (4.38%) MLflow
9 3 (2.19%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.19%) JUnit
9 3 (2.19%) Postman
9 3 (2.19%) Selenium
9 3 (2.19%) Snyk
9 3 (2.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.46%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.46%) Mockito
11 1 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.52%) Finance
3 9 (6.57%) Banking
4 8 (5.84%) Publishing
5 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.92%) Law
6 4 (2.92%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.19%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (33.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (20.44%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (16.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 21 (15.33%) Architect
5 13 (9.49%) Senior
6 10 (7.30%) Consultant
7 9 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) Network Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Developer
9 7 (5.11%) Network Architect
9 7 (5.11%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (5.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Analyst
10 6 (4.38%) Automation Architect
10 6 (4.38%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) DevOps Consultant
11 5 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (56.93%) Terraform
2 39 (28.47%) JSON
3 20 (14.60%) REST
4 15 (10.95%) ARM Templates
5 12 (8.76%) Kafka
6 10 (7.30%) Node.js
7 8 (5.84%) .NET
8 7 (5.11%) SLSA
9 5 (3.65%) Flask
9 5 (3.65%) React
10 4 (2.92%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.92%) Spring
10 4 (2.92%) Spring Boot
11 3 (2.19%) Django
11 3 (2.19%) LAMP
11 3 (2.19%) LEMP Stack
11 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.19%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.14%) Data Centre
2 14 (10.22%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.30%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.38%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.38%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.46%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.46%) CMDB
7 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.46%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.17%) Linux
2 18 (13.14%) Windows
3 7 (5.11%) Ubuntu
3 7 (5.11%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.38%) VMS
5 4 (2.92%) CentOS
5 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.19%) Unix
7 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.46%) zOS
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (74.45%) CI/CD
2 91 (66.42%) DevOps
3 66 (48.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (27.01%) Agile
5 31 (22.63%) Migration
6 29 (21.17%) Containerisation
7 26 (18.98%) DevSecOps
7 26 (18.98%) Test Automation
8 25 (18.25%) GitOps
9 24 (17.52%) Observability
10 23 (16.79%) AI
10 23 (16.79%) Analytics
11 22 (16.06%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (14.60%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (14.60%) Infrastructure Automation
12 20 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (13.87%) Data Modelling
13 19 (13.87%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (13.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 86 (62.77%) Python
2 52 (37.96%) PowerShell
3 38 (27.74%) Bash
4 30 (21.90%) SQL
5 21 (15.33%) Bicep
6 16 (11.68%) Java
7 7 (5.11%) Groovy
7 7 (5.11%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.11%) Scala
8 6 (4.38%) C#
9 4 (2.92%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.19%) Perl
10 3 (2.19%) R
11 2 (1.46%) Cypher
11 2 (1.46%) JCL
11 2 (1.46%) REXX
11 2 (1.46%) SHACL
11 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.73%) C
12 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.38%) Degree
4 5 (3.65%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.65%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.19%) CCIE
5 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.46%) CISSP
6 2 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.73%) CCNP
7 1 (0.73%) CISM
7 1 (0.73%) CRISC
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) QA
2 3 (2.19%) NIST
3 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (31.39%) Docker
2 13 (9.49%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.84%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.19%) Dovecot
6 3 (2.19%) Postfix
7 2 (1.46%) NFS
7 2 (1.46%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (43.80%) Kubernetes
2 44 (32.12%) Ansible
3 14 (10.22%) Grafana
4 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (5.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.65%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (2.92%) HAProxy
7 4 (2.92%) Puppet
8 3 (2.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.46%) Argo
9 2 (1.46%) Control-M
9 2 (1.46%) Podman
9 2 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.73%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.73%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (23.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.33%) Cisco
3 20 (14.60%) Google
4 17 (12.41%) Red Hat
5 15 (10.95%) Databricks
5 15 (10.95%) ServiceNow
5 15 (10.95%) VMware
6 9 (6.57%) F5
7 8 (5.84%) Infoblox
7 8 (5.84%) Sonatype
8 5 (3.65%) Juniper
8 5 (3.65%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.65%) Splunk
9 3 (2.19%) Citrix
9 3 (2.19%) Informatica
9 3 (2.19%) NEC
10 2 (1.46%) Dell
10 2 (1.46%) IBM
10 2 (1.46%) Isilon
10 2 (1.46%) Oracle