YAML Contracts in England

YAML
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring YAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YAML over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 433 509
Rank change year-on-year +62 +76 +15
Contract jobs citing YAML 143 157 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.10% 1.76% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 122 172
10th Percentile £475 £451 £450
25th Percentile £500 £513 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £617
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.79% +10.97%
75th Percentile £641 £679 £713
90th Percentile £700 £715 £773
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £56.38 £76.25 £39.08
25th Percentile £56.56 £76.69 £45.19
Median hourly rate £58.75 £78.00 £55.38
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +40.86% +5.48%
75th Percentile £61.56 £87.19 £65.56
90th Percentile £62.13 £90.00 £71.68
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £78.00 £55.38
% change year-on-year -24.68% +40.86% +5.48%

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 6,804 8,899 17,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.84% 22.17% 26.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,335 6,545 13,070
10th Percentile £356 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 179 204
10th Percentile £26.90 £37.71 £22.75
25th Percentile £46.18 £46.18 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +32.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £78.00 £76.37
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.56 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.99% -14.52% +32.65%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in England.

Daily rate trend for YAML in England

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in England.

Hourly rate trend for YAML in England

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 31 October 2024. 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 +46 76 £550 -4.51% 15
Midlands +29 26 £593 -8.85% 6
West Midlands +28 26 £593 - 5
South East +32 23 £585 -10.00% 3
South West +16 15 £582 -5.94%
North of England +37 12 £615 +23.00% 1
Yorkshire +26 10 £615 +11.82% 1
North West +24 2 £413 -8.33%
East of England +16 1 £550 +13.40%
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (11.89%) Confluence
2 4 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.70%) Luigi
4 1 (0.70%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 75 (52.45%) Azure
2 51 (35.66%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (21.68%) GitHub
4 25 (17.48%) Azure AKS
5 22 (15.38%) AWS
6 19 (13.29%) Azure Key Vault
6 19 (13.29%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (11.89%) Serverless
8 14 (9.79%) Azure Functions
8 14 (9.79%) GCP
8 14 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (9.09%) Entra ID
10 10 (6.99%) Azure API Management
10 10 (6.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (6.99%) IaaS
10 10 (6.99%) Power Platform
11 9 (6.29%) PaaS
12 8 (5.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (5.59%) SaaS
13 7 (4.90%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.79%) Firewall
2 12 (8.39%) DNS
2 12 (8.39%) TCP/IP
3 10 (6.99%) SSL
4 5 (3.50%) FTP
4 5 (3.50%) HTTP
4 5 (3.50%) VPN
5 4 (2.80%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (2.10%) BIG-IP
6 3 (2.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (2.10%) NAS
7 2 (1.40%) BGP
7 2 (1.40%) DHCP
7 2 (1.40%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.40%) MPLS
7 2 (1.40%) Network Security
7 2 (1.40%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (1.40%) SAN
7 2 (1.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.99%) Power BI
3 9 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (4.90%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.50%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.50%) SSDT
7 4 (2.80%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.40%) Metadata
8 2 (1.40%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (1.40%) Redis
9 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.70%) Big Data
9 1 (0.70%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.70%) MySQL
9 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 63 (44.06%) Git
2 22 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 18 (12.59%) JIRA
4 12 (8.39%) GitLab
5 10 (6.99%) SonarQube
6 8 (5.59%) CircleCI
7 6 (4.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.50%) Postman
9 4 (2.80%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.80%) Newman
9 4 (2.80%) Selenium
9 4 (2.80%) Vagrant
10 3 (2.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (2.10%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.10%) Travis CI
10 3 (2.10%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.40%) Maven
12 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.70%) Snyk
General
1 23 (16.08%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.89%) Finance
3 15 (10.49%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.09%) Banking
5 11 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.29%) Marketing
7 7 (4.90%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.50%) Electronics
8 5 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (25.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (21.68%) Developer
3 21 (14.69%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (10.49%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) Senior
6 10 (6.99%) C++ Developer
7 9 (6.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) .NET Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Azure Developer
9 7 (4.90%) Architect
9 7 (4.90%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.20%) Azure Architect
10 6 (4.20%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (3.50%) Environment And Release Manager
11 5 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.17%) JSON
2 19 (13.29%) XML
3 18 (12.59%) Swagger
4 17 (11.89%) CSS
5 16 (11.19%) REST
6 15 (10.49%) .NET
6 15 (10.49%) HTML
7 9 (6.29%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.90%) .NET Framework
8 7 (4.90%) ARM Templates
9 5 (3.50%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.50%) ADO
9 5 (3.50%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.50%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.50%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.80%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.80%) Node.js
10 4 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.80%) Web Services
11 3 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.19%) Data Structures
2 12 (8.39%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.90%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.90%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.10%) IoT
6 3 (2.10%) State Machine
7 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.40%) Tandem
7 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.40%) Wiki
8 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.70%) ASIC
8 1 (0.70%) FPGA
8 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.70%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 53 (37.06%) Linux
2 30 (20.98%) Windows
3 25 (17.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.20%) Unix
5 5 (3.50%) VMS
6 4 (2.80%) CentOS
7 3 (2.10%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (1.40%) Debian
8 2 (1.40%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (58.74%) DevOps
2 73 (51.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 40 (27.97%) Agile
5 35 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (20.98%) Infrastructure Automation
7 23 (16.08%) Test Automation
8 21 (14.69%) Configuration Management
9 19 (13.29%) Containerisation
9 19 (13.29%) DevSecOps
9 19 (13.29%) Task Automation
9 19 (13.29%) Validation
10 18 (12.59%) Scrum
11 17 (11.89%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (11.89%) Unit Testing
11 17 (11.89%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 16 (11.19%) Analytics
13 15 (10.49%) Secrets Management
14 14 (9.79%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (9.79%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (44.06%) PowerShell
2 55 (38.46%) Python
3 41 (28.67%) Bash
4 29 (20.28%) SQL
5 14 (9.79%) Bicep
5 14 (9.79%) C#
5 14 (9.79%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.79%) Shell Script
6 10 (6.99%) C++
6 10 (6.99%) Ruby
7 8 (5.59%) PHP
8 6 (4.20%) Java
9 5 (3.50%) Groovy
9 5 (3.50%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.80%) Go
10 4 (2.80%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.80%) Rust
11 3 (2.10%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.70%) REXX
12 1 (0.70%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 34 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.98%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) Degree
4 8 (5.59%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.40%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.70%) OCP
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) QA
2 4 (2.80%) GDPR
2 4 (2.80%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.40%) WCAG
4 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (29.37%) Docker
2 27 (18.88%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (17.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.59%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.80%) NFS
5 4 (2.80%) VirtualBox
6 3 (2.10%) Lustre
7 1 (0.70%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 87 (60.84%) Terraform
2 52 (36.36%) Ansible
3 42 (29.37%) Kubernetes
4 31 (21.68%) Puppet
5 21 (14.69%) Progress Chef
6 16 (11.19%) Salt
7 6 (4.20%) Grafana
8 5 (3.50%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.80%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (2.10%) Kibana
10 3 (2.10%) logstash
11 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.40%) Nessus
11 2 (1.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 1 (0.70%) Argo
12 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 31 (21.68%) VMware
2 21 (14.69%) Red Hat
3 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
4 14 (9.79%) SaltStack
5 8 (5.59%) Google
6 7 (4.90%) Splunk
7 6 (4.20%) SAP
8 5 (3.50%) Oracle
9 4 (2.80%) Dell
10 3 (2.10%) Cisco
10 3 (2.10%) F5
10 3 (2.10%) IBM
10 3 (2.10%) Isilon
10 3 (2.10%) NetApp
10 3 (2.10%) Planview
10 3 (2.10%) Sybase
11 2 (1.40%) HP
11 2 (1.40%) SendGrid
11 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.40%) Snow