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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 412 394
Rank change year-on-year -3 -18 -57
Contract jobs citing YAML 183 58 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.24% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.28% 1.09% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 48 108
10th Percentile £403 £339 £416
25th Percentile £426 £440 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £584
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -14.27% +1.48%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £645
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +2.70% -13.00% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 -
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 £81.25 -
% change year-on-year -41.54% - -

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 8,025 5,331 7,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.37% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,694 5,379
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £789 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 95 235
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.54 £22.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 May 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 28 May 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 -23 79 £550 +9.89% 6
North of England -25 52 £500 +17.65% 3
Yorkshire -24 36 £520 +45.45%
Midlands -44 23 £425 -10.53% 2
West Midlands -44 21 £407 -14.32% 1
South East -45 20 £493 -10.45% 5
North West -24 16 £431 -11.59%
East Midlands -25 2 £525 +10.53% 1
South West -26 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £525 -
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 11 (6.01%) Confluence
2 6 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.73%) Apache
3 5 (2.73%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.19%) nginx
5 3 (1.64%) IIS
5 3 (1.64%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.55%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.55%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.55%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (56.28%) Azure
2 59 (32.24%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (19.67%) GitHub
4 34 (18.58%) AWS
5 27 (14.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (10.93%) Entra ID
7 18 (9.84%) Power Platform
8 17 (9.29%) Azure AKS
8 17 (9.29%) GCP
9 16 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (8.74%) PaaS
10 14 (7.65%) Serverless
11 12 (6.56%) Azure Service Fabric
11 12 (6.56%) OpenShift
12 11 (6.01%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (5.46%) Amazon S3
13 10 (5.46%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (4.37%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (4.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.92%) Firewall
2 5 (2.73%) DNS
3 4 (2.19%) VPN
4 3 (1.64%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.64%) NAS
4 3 (1.64%) SAN
5 2 (1.09%) HTTP
5 2 (1.09%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) DHCP
6 1 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.55%) LAN
6 1 (0.55%) SSL
6 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (7.65%) Metadata
2 14 (7.65%) Power BI
3 9 (4.92%) Data Lake
3 9 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.73%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.73%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.19%) MySQL
7 4 (2.19%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.64%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (20.77%) Git
2 32 (17.49%) Jenkins
3 29 (15.85%) GitLab
4 18 (9.84%) SonarQube
5 17 (9.29%) JIRA
6 9 (4.92%) Maven
7 8 (4.37%) JUnit
8 7 (3.83%) Mockito
9 6 (3.28%) Postman
10 4 (2.19%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.19%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.64%) NUnit
12 2 (1.09%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.09%) ER Studio
12 2 (1.09%) ERwin
12 2 (1.09%) PowerDesigner
13 1 (0.55%) Gradle
13 1 (0.55%) Serilog
13 1 (0.55%) Snyk
13 1 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (19.13%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.30%) Finance
3 18 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.65%) Banking
5 10 (5.46%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.37%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.73%) Publishing
8 1 (0.55%) Electronics
8 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (22.40%) Developer
2 39 (21.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (13.66%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (12.02%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (11.48%) Data Engineer
6 16 (8.74%) Senior
7 15 (8.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 14 (7.65%) Architect
9 11 (6.01%) Lead
10 8 (4.37%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.28%) Salesforce Developer
12 6 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.73%) Python Engineer
13 5 (2.73%) React Developer
13 5 (2.73%) Support Engineer
14 4 (2.19%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.03%) JSON
2 28 (15.30%) Node.js
3 20 (10.93%) RESTful
4 19 (10.38%) .NET
4 19 (10.38%) ARM Templates
5 17 (9.29%) Django
5 17 (9.29%) Entity Framework
6 16 (8.74%) Flask
7 15 (8.20%) XML
8 13 (7.10%) React
9 10 (5.46%) REST
10 9 (4.92%) Swagger
11 8 (4.37%) Kafka
11 8 (4.37%) SLSA
12 7 (3.83%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.83%) OpenAPI
12 7 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (3.83%) SailPoint
13 6 (3.28%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.28%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.02%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.19%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.64%) Wiki
5 2 (1.09%) Clustering
5 2 (1.09%) CMDB
5 2 (1.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.09%) STIX
5 2 (1.09%) YARA
6 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) FPGA
6 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.49%) Linux
2 12 (6.56%) Ubuntu
3 11 (6.01%) CentOS
4 10 (5.46%) Windows
5 9 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.09%) zOS
8 1 (0.55%) Unix
8 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (74.86%) CI/CD
2 126 (68.85%) DevOps
3 57 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (26.78%) Agile
5 33 (18.03%) Containerisation
6 31 (16.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (13.11%) RBAC
8 23 (12.57%) Mentoring
8 23 (12.57%) Test Automation
9 20 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (10.93%) Migration
9 20 (10.93%) Software Engineering
9 20 (10.93%) Workflow
10 19 (10.38%) Data Integration
10 19 (10.38%) Data Modelling
11 17 (9.29%) ITSM
11 17 (9.29%) Observability
11 17 (9.29%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (53.01%) Python
2 63 (34.43%) SQL
3 39 (21.31%) PowerShell
4 25 (13.66%) Java
5 24 (13.11%) Bash
5 24 (13.11%) C#
6 20 (10.93%) Bicep
7 17 (9.29%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.92%) Groovy
8 9 (4.92%) Perl
8 9 (4.92%) Ruby
9 8 (4.37%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.83%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.28%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.73%) Apex Code
12 5 (2.73%) PL/SQL
13 4 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (1.09%) C++
15 2 (1.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.92%) RHCE
4 6 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.19%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.09%) CISSP
7 2 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.09%) GCFA
7 2 (1.09%) GCIA
7 2 (1.09%) GCIH
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.92%) Data Quality
1 9 (4.92%) QA
2 5 (2.73%) GDPR
3 3 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.09%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.09%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (24.59%) Docker
2 17 (9.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.64%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.64%) Postfix
6 2 (1.09%) NFS
6 2 (1.09%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.55%) Firmware
7 1 (0.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (34.43%) Terraform
2 46 (25.14%) Ansible
3 35 (19.13%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.20%) Puppet
5 12 (6.56%) Grafana
6 11 (6.01%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (3.83%) Progress Chef
9 6 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.19%) Data Guard
10 4 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.19%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.64%) HAProxy
12 2 (1.09%) Podman
12 2 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.55%) Istio
13 1 (0.55%) logstash
13 1 (0.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (17.49%) Microsoft
1 32 (17.49%) Red Hat
2 19 (10.38%) Databricks
3 11 (6.01%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.37%) Sonatype
4 8 (4.37%) Veracode
5 6 (3.28%) F5
6 5 (2.73%) Google
6 5 (2.73%) Splunk
7 4 (2.19%) NEC
7 4 (2.19%) Oracle
8 3 (1.64%) Cisco
8 3 (1.64%) IBM
8 3 (1.64%) Juniper
9 2 (1.09%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.09%) Brocade
9 2 (1.09%) Dell
9 2 (1.09%) OpenText
9 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.09%) VMware