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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 405 408
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 -19
Contract jobs citing YAML 181 83 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.31% 1.44% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 51 111
10th Percentile £381 £440 £415
25th Percentile £416 £490 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £564 £663 £665
90th Percentile £617 £690 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £569 £600
% change year-on-year -12.09% -5.21% -
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 7,833 5,773 7,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.53% 22.59% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,821 5,435
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £430 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 78 207
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.92 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.78
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £78.25 £81.34 £76.53
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 6 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 6 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 -5 80 £525 -4.55% 14
North of England -20 48 £500 -14.16% 4
Yorkshire -37 27 £520 -10.73% 1
Midlands -41 25 £571 -21.24% 5
West Midlands -36 24 £561 -22.69% 4
North West - 20 £425 - 2
South East -48 16 £493 -21.83% 17
South West -18 10 £700 +14.29% 1
East of England - 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £600 - 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 15 (8.29%) Confluence
2 7 (3.87%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.10%) SAS
4 2 (1.10%) Traefik
5 1 (0.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) CMS
5 1 (0.55%) IIS
5 1 (0.55%) nginx
5 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.55%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (53.59%) Azure
2 50 (27.62%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (17.13%) GitHub
4 29 (16.02%) AWS
5 21 (11.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (9.94%) Entra ID
7 17 (9.39%) PaaS
8 16 (8.84%) Serverless
9 15 (8.29%) Power Platform
10 14 (7.73%) Datadog
10 14 (7.73%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (6.63%) GCP
12 11 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (6.08%) Azure Service Fabric
12 11 (6.08%) OpenShift
12 11 (6.08%) SaaS
13 9 (4.97%) IaaS
14 8 (4.42%) Amazon S3
14 8 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (4.42%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.42%) Firewall
2 7 (3.87%) VPN
3 3 (1.66%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.10%) Calico
4 2 (1.10%) DNS
4 2 (1.10%) HTTP
4 2 (1.10%) LAN
4 2 (1.10%) WAN
5 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.73%) Power BI
4 12 (6.63%) Metadata
5 11 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (6.08%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.52%) Data Lake
7 9 (4.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (3.31%) Delta Lake
8 6 (3.31%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.31%) Redis
8 6 (3.31%) Spark SQL
9 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.76%) Big Data
10 4 (2.21%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (20.44%) Jenkins
2 32 (17.68%) Git
3 28 (15.47%) GitLab
4 24 (13.26%) SonarQube
5 21 (11.60%) JIRA
6 8 (4.42%) JUnit
6 8 (4.42%) Maven
7 6 (3.31%) Postman
8 5 (2.76%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.76%) Mockito
9 4 (2.21%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.66%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.66%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.66%) Gradle
10 3 (1.66%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.66%) Selenium
10 3 (1.66%) Snyk
10 3 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.66%) webpack
11 2 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (14.92%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.84%) Finance
4 12 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.52%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.87%) Banking
7 3 (1.66%) Publishing
8 1 (0.55%) Law
8 1 (0.55%) Retail
8 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (24.86%) Developer
2 33 (18.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (13.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (13.26%) Data Engineer
5 19 (10.50%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (9.94%) Senior
7 11 (6.08%) Lead
8 10 (5.52%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Architect
9 9 (4.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.42%) Azure Data Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Administrator
12 6 (3.31%) Cloud Specialist
12 6 (3.31%) Salesforce Developer
13 5 (2.76%) React Developer
13 5 (2.76%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (2.76%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (20.99%) Node.js
2 26 (14.36%) JSON
3 20 (11.05%) .NET
4 19 (10.50%) RESTful
5 17 (9.39%) GraphQL
5 17 (9.39%) Playwright
5 17 (9.39%) Vitest
6 16 (8.84%) ARM Templates
7 15 (8.29%) Entity Framework
8 14 (7.73%) XML
9 13 (7.18%) React
10 12 (6.63%) Django
10 12 (6.63%) PySpark
10 12 (6.63%) REST
11 11 (6.08%) Flask
11 11 (6.08%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (4.97%) Swagger
13 7 (3.87%) Jest
13 7 (3.87%) Kafka
13 7 (3.87%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.47%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.66%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.66%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.66%) Wiki
6 2 (1.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.10%) NHS
6 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.10%) PACS
6 2 (1.10%) STIX
6 2 (1.10%) YARA
7 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.68%) Linux
2 9 (4.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (4.97%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.42%) CentOS
4 5 (2.76%) Windows
5 3 (1.66%) VMS
6 2 (1.10%) Unix
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (80.66%) CI/CD
2 130 (71.82%) DevOps
3 67 (37.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (35.36%) Agile
5 37 (20.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 35 (19.34%) Containerisation
6 35 (19.34%) Mentoring
7 31 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (16.57%) Test Automation
9 29 (16.02%) Software Engineering
10 25 (13.81%) Data Engineering
11 24 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (13.26%) RBAC
12 23 (12.71%) DevSecOps
13 18 (9.94%) API Design
13 18 (9.94%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (9.39%) Coaching
14 17 (9.39%) Data Modelling
14 17 (9.39%) ETL
14 17 (9.39%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 75 (41.44%) Python
2 67 (37.02%) SQL
3 23 (12.71%) Java
4 22 (12.15%) C#
4 22 (12.15%) PowerShell
4 22 (12.15%) TypeScript
5 20 (11.05%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.73%) Bash
6 14 (7.73%) Bicep
7 9 (4.97%) Ruby
8 8 (4.42%) Perl
9 7 (3.87%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.76%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (2.76%) Groovy
10 5 (2.76%) R
10 5 (2.76%) Scala
11 4 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.21%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.99%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) DV Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) RHCE
4 7 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.21%) Degree
6 3 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.10%) CISSP
7 2 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.10%) GCFA
7 2 (1.10%) GCIA
7 2 (1.10%) GCIH
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.52%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.52%) QA
2 6 (3.31%) NCSC
3 4 (2.21%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.10%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.10%) NIST
5 2 (1.10%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 63 (34.81%) Docker
2 13 (7.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.10%) HDFS
3 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.10%) Xen
4 1 (0.55%) etcd
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (27.62%) Terraform
2 45 (24.86%) Kubernetes
3 32 (17.68%) Ansible
4 21 (11.60%) Grafana
5 17 (9.39%) Prometheus
6 12 (6.63%) Puppet
7 8 (4.42%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.21%) Podman
9 4 (2.21%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.10%) Argo
10 2 (1.10%) Istio
10 2 (1.10%) Packer
11 1 (0.55%) Control-M
11 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.55%) Kibana
11 1 (0.55%) logstash
11 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (16.57%) Red Hat
2 29 (16.02%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.39%) Databricks
4 11 (6.08%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.42%) Veracode
6 7 (3.87%) Splunk
7 5 (2.76%) Sonatype
8 4 (2.21%) NEC
8 4 (2.21%) Oracle
9 3 (1.66%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.10%) F5
11 1 (0.55%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.55%) IBM
11 1 (0.55%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.55%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.55%) Talend
11 1 (0.55%) VMware