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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 414 383
Rank change year-on-year -7 -31 -41
Contract jobs citing YAML 175 69 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.14% 1.25% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 58 110
10th Percentile £403 £348 £424
25th Percentile £431 £419 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £582
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.09% +1.22%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £645
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £573
% change year-on-year +3.50% -12.66% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 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 8,182 5,520 7,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.56% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,392 3,835 5,486
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £744 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 109 248
10th Percentile £30.98 £31.90 £22.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -36 76 £550 +11.11% 11
North of England -27 54 £500 +17.65% 6
Yorkshire -16 38 £515 +44.00% 3
Midlands -52 21 £407 -16.51% 1
West Midlands -46 19 £407 -25.53% 1
South East -58 17 £525 -12.50% 8
North West -29 16 £431 -11.59%
East Midlands -27 2 £525 +7.69%
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 (6.29%) Confluence
2 7 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.86%) Apache
4 4 (2.29%) nginx
4 4 (2.29%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.71%) IIS
5 3 (1.71%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.57%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (54.86%) Azure
2 57 (32.57%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (19.43%) GitHub
4 31 (17.71%) AWS
5 25 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (11.43%) Entra ID
7 18 (10.29%) Power Platform
8 16 (9.14%) Azure AKS
8 16 (9.14%) GCP
8 16 (9.14%) PaaS
9 15 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.86%) Azure Service Fabric
10 12 (6.86%) Serverless
11 11 (6.29%) OpenShift
12 10 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (5.14%) Amazon S3
13 9 (5.14%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (4.57%) IaaS
15 7 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.00%) Firewall
2 4 (2.29%) DNS
3 3 (1.71%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.71%) NAS
3 3 (1.71%) SAN
4 2 (1.14%) Internet
5 1 (0.57%) DHCP
5 1 (0.57%) DSL
5 1 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.57%) SSL
5 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.86%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.57%) Metadata
3 14 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (7.43%) Power BI
5 9 (5.14%) Data Lake
6 8 (4.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.86%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.29%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.29%) MySQL
9 4 (2.29%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.71%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (20.57%) Git
2 28 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 27 (15.43%) GitLab
4 19 (10.86%) SonarQube
5 16 (9.14%) JIRA
6 10 (5.71%) Maven
7 7 (4.00%) JUnit
7 7 (4.00%) Mockito
8 4 (2.29%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.29%) Postman
9 3 (1.71%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.71%) NUnit
10 2 (1.14%) ER Studio
10 2 (1.14%) ERwin
10 2 (1.14%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.57%) git-flow
11 1 (0.57%) Serilog
11 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.57%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.71%) Finance
3 17 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.00%) Banking
5 10 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.00%) Publishing
8 1 (0.57%) Electronics
8 1 (0.57%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (22.29%) Developer
2 36 (20.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (13.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (10.86%) Data Engineer
6 16 (9.14%) Architect
7 14 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.00%) Senior
8 11 (6.29%) Lead
9 8 (4.57%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.43%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.43%) Salesforce Developer
11 5 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 5 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Python Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) React Developer
11 5 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.14%) JSON
2 26 (14.86%) Node.js
3 20 (11.43%) RESTful
4 19 (10.86%) ARM Templates
5 17 (9.71%) .NET
5 17 (9.71%) Django
5 17 (9.71%) Entity Framework
6 16 (9.14%) Flask
7 13 (7.43%) React
8 12 (6.86%) XML
9 10 (5.71%) SLSA
10 9 (5.14%) REST
10 9 (5.14%) Swagger
11 8 (4.57%) Kafka
12 7 (4.00%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.00%) OpenAPI
12 7 (4.00%) SailPoint
13 6 (3.43%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (3.43%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (3.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.71%) Wiki
5 2 (1.14%) Clustering
5 2 (1.14%) CMDB
5 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.57%) STIX
6 1 (0.57%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.00%) Linux
2 11 (6.29%) CentOS
2 11 (6.29%) Ubuntu
3 9 (5.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (5.14%) Windows
4 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.14%) zOS
6 1 (0.57%) Unix
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (74.86%) CI/CD
2 118 (67.43%) DevOps
3 53 (30.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (25.71%) Agile
5 30 (17.14%) Containerisation
6 29 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 25 (14.29%) RBAC
9 21 (12.00%) Mentoring
9 21 (12.00%) Migration
9 21 (12.00%) Test Automation
10 19 (10.86%) Data Integration
11 18 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (10.29%) Data Modelling
11 18 (10.29%) Observability
11 18 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (10.29%) Workflow
12 17 (9.71%) ITSM
12 17 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (9.14%) AI
Programming Languages
1 94 (53.71%) Python
2 60 (34.29%) SQL
3 38 (21.71%) PowerShell
4 26 (14.86%) Java
5 23 (13.14%) Bash
6 22 (12.57%) C#
7 21 (12.00%) Bicep
8 17 (9.71%) JavaScript
9 11 (6.29%) Groovy
10 9 (5.14%) Perl
10 9 (5.14%) Ruby
11 7 (4.00%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.43%) Shell Script
13 5 (2.86%) Apex Code
13 5 (2.86%) PL/SQL
14 4 (2.29%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (1.14%) C++
16 2 (1.14%) Go
16 2 (1.14%) JCL
Qualifications
1 37 (21.14%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.14%) RHCE
4 6 (3.43%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.57%) GCFA
8 1 (0.57%) GCIA
8 1 (0.57%) GCIH
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.57%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.00%) QA
3 5 (2.86%) GDPR
4 3 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.14%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (21.71%) Docker
2 17 (9.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.71%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.71%) Postfix
6 2 (1.14%) NFS
6 2 (1.14%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (34.86%) Terraform
2 44 (25.14%) Ansible
3 30 (17.14%) Kubernetes
4 13 (7.43%) Puppet
5 10 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (4.57%) Grafana
7 7 (4.00%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.86%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.29%) Data Guard
10 4 (2.29%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.71%) HAProxy
12 2 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 1 (0.57%) Argo
13 1 (0.57%) Istio
13 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 30 (17.14%) Red Hat
3 17 (9.71%) Databricks
4 11 (6.29%) Salesforce
5 10 (5.71%) Sonatype
6 8 (4.57%) Veracode
7 6 (3.43%) F5
7 6 (3.43%) Google
8 4 (2.29%) NEC
8 4 (2.29%) Oracle
9 3 (1.71%) Cisco
9 3 (1.71%) IBM
9 3 (1.71%) Juniper
9 3 (1.71%) Splunk
10 2 (1.14%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.14%) Brocade
10 2 (1.14%) Dell
10 2 (1.14%) OpenText
10 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.14%) VMware