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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 374 430
Rank change year-on-year -27 +56 +39
Contract jobs citing YAML 129 141 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.87% 2.10% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 84 117
10th Percentile £357 £475 £450
25th Percentile £416 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £663 £646 £675
90th Percentile £700 £697 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £56.38 -
25th Percentile £100.00 £56.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 £58.75 £77.75
Median % change year-on-year +78.72% -24.44% +40.41%
75th Percentile £110.00 £61.56 £78.75
90th Percentile - £62.13 -
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 6,903 6,730 8,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.66% 21.78% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,648 4,274 6,251
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £675
90th Percentile £731 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 106 180
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.59
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +18.66% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £73.88 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.70%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 +8 77 £475 -13.64% 16
Midlands -33 22 £700 +15.51% 5
West Midlands -23 21 £700 +15.51% 1
South West -1 14 £700 +21.21% 1
South East -16 13 £435 -30.12% 10
North of England -48 6 £420 -27.90% 1
North West -16 5 £420 +1.82% 1
East of England - 2 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 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 6 (4.65%) Apache
1 6 (4.65%) Confluence
2 5 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.10%) IIS
3 4 (3.10%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.55%) SAS
5 2 (1.55%) Traefik
6 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (61.24%) Azure
2 51 (39.53%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (34.88%) GitHub
4 25 (19.38%) AWS
5 18 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (13.18%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (12.40%) SaaS
8 15 (11.63%) GCP
9 14 (10.85%) OpenShift
10 11 (8.53%) Azure AKS
10 11 (8.53%) Serverless
11 10 (7.75%) Datadog
11 10 (7.75%) IaaS
12 9 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (6.98%) Entra ID
13 8 (6.20%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.98%) DNS
2 8 (6.20%) Firewall
3 7 (5.43%) Network Security
4 6 (4.65%) VPN
5 5 (3.88%) DHCP
6 3 (2.33%) BGP
6 3 (2.33%) SMTP
7 2 (1.55%) Calico
7 2 (1.55%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.55%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.55%) MPLS
8 1 (0.78%) HTTP
8 1 (0.78%) IPsec
8 1 (0.78%) LAN
8 1 (0.78%) MQTT
8 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.78%) VLAN
8 1 (0.78%) VRRP
8 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.08%) Redis
3 8 (6.20%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.65%) Delta Lake
4 6 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.10%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.10%) Power BI
6 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.33%) Big Data
7 3 (2.33%) Metadata
7 3 (2.33%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (2.33%) Parquet
7 3 (2.33%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.55%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.55%) ImageNet
8 2 (1.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (1.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (20.16%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.83%) Git
3 16 (12.40%) SonarQube
4 14 (10.85%) GitLab
4 14 (10.85%) JIRA
5 9 (6.98%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.88%) Artifactory
6 5 (3.88%) Selenium
7 4 (3.10%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.10%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.10%) Gradle
7 4 (3.10%) JUnit
7 4 (3.10%) Maven
7 4 (3.10%) Postman
7 4 (3.10%) Snyk
7 4 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (3.10%) webpack
8 3 (2.33%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.53%) Finance
3 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.43%) Law
5 6 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.33%) Banking
6 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (24.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (13.18%) Developer
3 16 (12.40%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (10.08%) Senior
5 12 (9.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Cloud Specialist
9 7 (5.43%) Administrator
9 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.88%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.10%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (3.10%) Consultant
12 4 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.10%) Technical Consultant
13 3 (2.33%) Azure Specialist
13 3 (2.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.83%) Node.js
2 16 (12.40%) GraphQL
3 15 (11.63%) JSON
3 15 (11.63%) Playwright
3 15 (11.63%) Vitest
4 14 (10.85%) .NET
5 12 (9.30%) Kafka
6 10 (7.75%) ADO
6 10 (7.75%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (6.98%) ARM Templates
7 9 (6.98%) Keycloak
7 9 (6.98%) PySpark
7 9 (6.98%) REST
8 6 (4.65%) Jest
8 6 (4.65%) OAuth
9 4 (3.10%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.10%) .NET Framework
9 4 (3.10%) OpenID
9 4 (3.10%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (3.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.10%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.10%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.33%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.33%) PKI
5 2 (1.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.55%) NHS
5 2 (1.55%) PACS
5 2 (1.55%) STIX
5 2 (1.55%) YARA
6 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (0.78%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.48%) Linux
2 10 (7.75%) Windows
3 5 (3.88%) Unix
3 5 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.33%) VMS
5 2 (1.55%) CentOS
6 1 (0.78%) Android
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (82.17%) DevOps
2 102 (79.07%) CI/CD
3 75 (58.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (48.84%) Agile
5 49 (37.98%) Containerisation
6 31 (24.03%) Test Automation
7 28 (21.71%) DevSecOps
8 27 (20.93%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (17.83%) Mentoring
11 22 (17.05%) Software Engineering
12 16 (12.40%) Observability
13 15 (11.63%) Coaching
13 15 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (10.08%) Scrum
15 12 (9.30%) Analytics
15 12 (9.30%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (9.30%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.66%) Python
2 29 (22.48%) SQL
3 24 (18.60%) PowerShell
4 22 (17.05%) Bash
5 19 (14.73%) Bicep
6 18 (13.95%) TypeScript
7 11 (8.53%) C#
8 8 (6.20%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.10%) Java
9 4 (3.10%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.33%) Go
10 3 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.55%) PHP
11 2 (1.55%) R
11 2 (1.55%) Scala
11 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.78%) C++
12 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.78%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.18%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.65%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.65%) Degree
5 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.55%) CISSP
6 2 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.55%) GCFA
6 2 (1.55%) GCIA
6 2 (1.55%) GCIH
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) NCSC
2 4 (3.10%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.10%) QA
3 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.55%) NIST
3 2 (1.55%) WCAG
4 1 (0.78%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 59 (45.74%) Docker
2 14 (10.85%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.55%) Xen
6 1 (0.78%) etcd
6 1 (0.78%) HDFS
6 1 (0.78%) iptables
6 1 (0.78%) KVM
6 1 (0.78%) Squid
Systems Management
1 63 (48.84%) Kubernetes
2 54 (41.86%) Terraform
3 31 (24.03%) Ansible
4 24 (18.60%) Grafana
5 21 (16.28%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.75%) Packer
6 10 (7.75%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.43%) Puppet
8 5 (3.88%) Podman
9 2 (1.55%) Argo
9 2 (1.55%) Istio
9 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.78%) Control-M
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.40%) Splunk
3 12 (9.30%) Databricks
4 7 (5.43%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.88%) Google
5 5 (3.88%) Oracle
5 5 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.10%) VMware
7 3 (2.33%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.55%) Cisco
8 2 (1.55%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.78%) AlgoSec
9 1 (0.78%) Citrix
9 1 (0.78%) Juniper
9 1 (0.78%) NetApp
9 1 (0.78%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.78%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.78%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow