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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 394 410
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing YAML 170 86 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.28% 1.47% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 51 118
10th Percentile £381 £453 £437
25th Percentile £430 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £667 £668
90th Percentile £685 £704 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.58% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile - £56.63 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £57.19 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £76.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.70% -2.24% +40.86%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £73.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £76.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year -37.70% -2.24% +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 7,450 5,860 7,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.87% 22.55% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,002 3,799 5,574
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £534
% change year-on-year -4.21% +0.19% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 74 181
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.56 £45.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.80% +13.64% -15.38%

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 15 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 15 February 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 +12 81 £525 -4.55% 17
North of England -24 44 £500 -14.16% 3
Yorkshire -43 26 £525 -9.87%
West Midlands -32 21 £600 -17.24% 8
Midlands -41 21 £600 -17.24% 10
North West - 17 £420 - 3
South West -13 12 £700 +14.29%
South East -39 12 £435 -30.95% 18
East of England - 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
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 15 (8.82%) Confluence
2 8 (4.71%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.18%) SAS
5 2 (1.18%) Traefik
6 1 (0.59%) CMS
6 1 (0.59%) IIS
6 1 (0.59%) nginx
6 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.59%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (50.00%) Azure
2 41 (24.12%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (20.00%) GitHub
4 28 (16.47%) AWS
5 19 (11.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (10.59%) Entra ID
7 17 (10.00%) PaaS
7 17 (10.00%) SaaS
8 16 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (8.82%) Power Platform
10 14 (8.24%) Serverless
11 13 (7.65%) Datadog
11 13 (7.65%) OpenShift
12 12 (7.06%) GCP
13 11 (6.47%) Azure Service Fabric
13 11 (6.47%) IaaS
14 10 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (5.29%) Azure AKS
16 8 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.53%) VPN
2 5 (2.94%) Firewall
3 3 (1.76%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.18%) Calico
4 2 (1.18%) DNS
4 2 (1.18%) HTTP
4 2 (1.18%) LAN
4 2 (1.18%) WAN
5 1 (0.59%) BGP
5 1 (0.59%) IPsec
5 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.59%) VLAN
5 1 (0.59%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.41%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (8.24%) Power BI
4 13 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (6.47%) Metadata
5 11 (6.47%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.88%) Data Lake
7 9 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (5.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (4.71%) Redis
9 7 (4.12%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.53%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.94%) Big Data
11 5 (2.94%) Spark SQL
12 4 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (2.35%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (22.35%) Jenkins
2 29 (17.06%) Git
3 28 (16.47%) GitLab
4 27 (15.88%) SonarQube
5 20 (11.76%) JIRA
6 8 (4.71%) JUnit
6 8 (4.71%) Maven
7 6 (3.53%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.53%) Postman
8 5 (2.94%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.94%) Selenium
9 4 (2.35%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.35%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.35%) Gradle
9 4 (2.35%) Mockito
9 4 (2.35%) Snyk
9 4 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.35%) webpack
10 3 (1.76%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (17.06%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.41%) Finance
4 12 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.53%) Banking
8 2 (1.18%) Publishing
9 1 (0.59%) Law
9 1 (0.59%) Retail
9 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (21.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (18.24%) Developer
3 23 (13.53%) Data Engineer
4 18 (10.59%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (8.82%) Senior
6 14 (8.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 10 (5.88%) Lead
7 10 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Architect
8 9 (5.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.71%) Cloud Specialist
10 7 (4.12%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Salesforce Developer
11 6 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) .NET Developer
12 5 (2.94%) Administrator
12 5 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) React Developer
12 5 (2.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.82%) Node.js
2 29 (17.06%) JSON
3 19 (11.18%) GraphQL
3 19 (11.18%) Playwright
3 19 (11.18%) Vitest
4 17 (10.00%) .NET
4 17 (10.00%) RESTful
5 16 (9.41%) ARM Templates
6 15 (8.82%) XML
7 13 (7.65%) Entity Framework
8 11 (6.47%) PySpark
9 10 (5.88%) REST
10 9 (5.29%) Kafka
10 9 (5.29%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (5.29%) Swagger
11 7 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.12%) Jest
11 7 (4.12%) OpenAPI
11 7 (4.12%) SailPoint
12 6 (3.53%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.06%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.35%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.35%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.76%) Wiki
5 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.18%) NHS
5 2 (1.18%) PACS
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (0.59%) Replication
6 1 (0.59%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.82%) Linux
2 9 (5.29%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.71%) CentOS
3 8 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.35%) Windows
5 3 (1.76%) VMS
6 2 (1.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (81.18%) CI/CD
2 124 (72.94%) DevOps
3 73 (42.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (38.82%) Agile
5 43 (25.29%) Containerisation
6 36 (21.18%) Mentoring
7 32 (18.82%) Software Engineering
7 32 (18.82%) Test Automation
8 30 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (17.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (14.71%) DevSecOps
11 24 (14.12%) Data Engineering
12 23 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (13.53%) RBAC
13 19 (11.18%) Coaching
13 19 (11.18%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (10.59%) API Design
15 17 (10.00%) ITSM
16 16 (9.41%) Data Pipeline
16 16 (9.41%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 65 (38.24%) Python
2 56 (32.94%) SQL
3 24 (14.12%) TypeScript
4 22 (12.94%) Java
5 20 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 18 (10.59%) C#
7 13 (7.65%) Bash
8 12 (7.06%) Bicep
8 12 (7.06%) JavaScript
9 9 (5.29%) Ruby
10 8 (4.71%) Perl
11 7 (4.12%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (2.94%) R
12 5 (2.94%) Scala
12 5 (2.94%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.35%) Apex Code
13 4 (2.35%) Groovy
13 4 (2.35%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 41 (24.12%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.06%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.71%) RHCE
5 7 (4.12%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.94%) Degree
7 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.59%) CISSP
9 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.59%) GCFA
9 1 (0.59%) GCIA
9 1 (0.59%) GCIH
9 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.29%) NCSC
2 9 (5.29%) QA
3 4 (2.35%) GDPR
4 3 (1.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.18%) WCAG
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (39.41%) Docker
2 12 (7.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) HDFS
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.18%) Xen
4 1 (0.59%) etcd
4 1 (0.59%) KVM
4 1 (0.59%) Squid
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 51 (30.00%) Terraform
2 36 (21.18%) Ansible
3 22 (12.94%) Grafana
4 18 (10.59%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.65%) Puppet
6 8 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (3.53%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.94%) Podman
10 2 (1.18%) Argo
10 2 (1.18%) Istio
10 2 (1.18%) Packer
11 1 (0.59%) Control-M
11 1 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.59%) Kibana
11 1 (0.59%) logstash
11 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (17.06%) Red Hat
2 28 (16.47%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.82%) Databricks
4 12 (7.06%) Salesforce
5 10 (5.88%) Splunk
6 8 (4.71%) Veracode
7 5 (2.94%) Oracle
8 4 (2.35%) Sonatype
9 3 (1.76%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.59%) Google
10 1 (0.59%) Juniper
10 1 (0.59%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.59%) NEC
10 1 (0.59%) NetApp
10 1 (0.59%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.59%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.59%) Talend
10 1 (0.59%) VMware