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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 403 383
Rank change year-on-year -88 -20 +4
Contract jobs citing YAML 141 104 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 1.46% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 72 93
10th Percentile £403 £361 £475
25th Percentile £481 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% -16.46% -
75th Percentile £660 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £700 £687
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £579
% change year-on-year +7.64% -13.57% +0.61%
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 £87.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.71% +45.83% -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 9,923 7,112 8,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 25.53% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,524 4,834 5,399
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 172 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.56 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.85 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.51% -10.96% +2.67%

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 September 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 25 September 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 -84 70 £613 +25.32% 69
North of England -41 25 £513 +20.59% 12
Yorkshire -19 19 £514 +28.58% 3
Midlands -47 16 £450 -31.71% 11
South East -70 16 £525 +15.38% 18
West Midlands -41 14 £413 -41.07% 6
South West -39 6 £674 -3.79% 7
North East -40 4 £513 - 2
East Midlands -11 2 £475 -2.56% 5
North West -55 2 £500 +11.11% 7
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 8 (5.67%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.96%) Apache
2 7 (4.96%) Confluence
3 5 (3.55%) nginx
4 4 (2.84%) IIS
5 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.13%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 73 (51.77%) Azure
2 61 (43.26%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (38.30%) AWS
4 48 (34.04%) GitHub
5 29 (20.57%) GCP
6 23 (16.31%) Azure AKS
7 19 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (11.35%) Entra ID
9 13 (9.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (9.22%) Power Platform
10 12 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (7.80%) Serverless
12 10 (7.09%) Amazon S3
12 10 (7.09%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (7.09%) OCI
13 9 (6.38%) OpenShift
14 7 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (4.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (4.96%) Snowflake
15 6 (4.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.64%) BGP
2 13 (9.22%) Ethernet VPN
2 13 (9.22%) Firewall
2 13 (9.22%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.51%) DNS
3 12 (8.51%) NX-OS
4 9 (6.38%) TACACS
5 5 (3.55%) BIG-IP
5 5 (3.55%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (3.55%) NAS
5 5 (3.55%) Network Security
6 4 (2.84%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (2.84%) DHCP
6 4 (2.84%) VPN
7 3 (2.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (2.13%) OSPF
7 3 (2.13%) SAN
7 3 (2.13%) SSL
8 2 (1.42%) DSL
8 2 (1.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.64%) Metadata
2 13 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.38%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.26%) Power BI
6 5 (3.55%) Data Hub
6 5 (3.55%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (2.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.84%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.13%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.13%) MySQL
8 3 (2.13%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.42%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.42%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.42%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (33.33%) Git
2 33 (23.40%) GitLab
3 23 (16.31%) Jenkins
4 14 (9.93%) SonarQube
5 12 (8.51%) Maven
6 10 (7.09%) JIRA
7 7 (4.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (4.26%) MLflow
9 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.13%) JUnit
10 3 (2.13%) Postman
10 3 (2.13%) Selenium
10 3 (2.13%) Snyk
11 2 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.42%) ER Studio
11 2 (1.42%) ERwin
11 2 (1.42%) Mockito
11 2 (1.42%) NUnit
11 2 (1.42%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.57%) Finance
3 11 (7.80%) Banking
4 10 (7.09%) Publishing
5 6 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.13%) Law
8 3 (2.13%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 47 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (18.44%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (14.89%) Architect
4 20 (14.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.93%) Senior
6 9 (6.38%) Consultant
6 9 (6.38%) Python Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Data Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Network Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (5.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Developer
8 7 (4.96%) Network Architect
9 6 (4.26%) Analyst
9 6 (4.26%) Automation Architect
10 5 (3.55%) DevOps Consultant
10 5 (3.55%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (54.61%) Terraform
2 44 (31.21%) JSON
3 19 (13.48%) REST
4 13 (9.22%) Node.js
5 12 (8.51%) ARM Templates
5 12 (8.51%) Kafka
6 10 (7.09%) .NET
6 10 (7.09%) SLSA
7 5 (3.55%) Flask
7 5 (3.55%) React
8 4 (2.84%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.84%) RESTful
8 4 (2.84%) Spring
8 4 (2.84%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.13%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.13%) Django
9 3 (2.13%) Entity Framework
9 3 (2.13%) LAMP
9 3 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.77%) Data Centre
2 17 (12.06%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.80%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.84%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.42%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.42%) Clustering
7 2 (1.42%) CMDB
7 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.42%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.42%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.86%) Linux
2 16 (11.35%) Windows
3 6 (4.26%) Ubuntu
3 6 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.55%) VMS
5 4 (2.84%) CentOS
6 3 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.13%) Unix
7 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.42%) zOS
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (71.63%) CI/CD
2 92 (65.25%) DevOps
3 61 (43.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (23.40%) Agile
4 33 (23.40%) Containerisation
5 29 (20.57%) DevSecOps
6 28 (19.86%) Migration
7 27 (19.15%) GitOps
7 27 (19.15%) Test Automation
8 26 (18.44%) Observability
9 25 (17.73%) Analytics
10 23 (16.31%) AI
10 23 (16.31%) Infrastructure Automation
11 21 (14.89%) Data Modelling
11 21 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
11 21 (14.89%) Validation
12 19 (13.48%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (12.77%) RBAC
14 17 (12.06%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 94 (66.67%) Python
2 46 (32.62%) PowerShell
3 37 (26.24%) Bash
4 32 (22.70%) SQL
5 20 (14.18%) Bicep
6 19 (13.48%) Java
7 10 (7.09%) Groovy
8 8 (5.67%) C#
9 7 (4.96%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.96%) Scala
9 7 (4.96%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.84%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.13%) Perl
11 3 (2.13%) R
12 2 (1.42%) Cypher
12 2 (1.42%) JCL
12 2 (1.42%) REXX
12 2 (1.42%) SHACL
12 2 (1.42%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 29 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.55%) Degree
3 5 (3.55%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.84%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.13%) CCIE
5 3 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.42%) CISSP
6 2 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CCNP
7 1 (0.71%) CISM
7 1 (0.71%) CRISC
7 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.67%) QA
2 4 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.13%) NIST
4 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (30.50%) Docker
2 13 (9.22%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.67%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.13%) Dovecot
7 3 (2.13%) Postfix
8 2 (1.42%) NFS
8 2 (1.42%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 57 (40.43%) Kubernetes
2 44 (31.21%) Ansible
3 14 (9.93%) Grafana
4 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.96%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.55%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.84%) Data Guard
6 4 (2.84%) HAProxy
6 4 (2.84%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (2.84%) Puppet
7 3 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.42%) Argo
8 2 (1.42%) Control-M
8 2 (1.42%) Podman
8 2 (1.42%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.71%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.89%) Cisco
3 20 (14.18%) Google
4 17 (12.06%) Red Hat
5 15 (10.64%) ServiceNow
5 15 (10.64%) VMware
6 13 (9.22%) Databricks
7 11 (7.80%) Sonatype
8 9 (6.38%) F5
9 8 (5.67%) Infoblox
10 6 (4.26%) Splunk
11 5 (3.55%) Juniper
11 5 (3.55%) Oracle
11 5 (3.55%) Palo Alto
12 3 (2.13%) NEC
13 2 (1.42%) Brocade
13 2 (1.42%) IBM
13 2 (1.42%) Informatica
13 2 (1.42%) OpenText
13 2 (1.42%) SolarWinds