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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 397 409
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing YAML 161 103 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.25% 1.73% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 64 112
10th Percentile £381 £475 £430
25th Percentile £449 £500 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £606 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +1.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £672 £658
90th Percentile £700 £703 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £579 £576
% change year-on-year -9.29% +0.48% -4.00%
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 7,155 5,950 7,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.10% 22.18% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,797 3,808 5,592
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £658 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £757
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £545
% change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 78 176
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £27.31
25th Percentile £46.13 £44.17 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £66.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -2 83 £519 -5.68% 13
North of England -31 35 £500 -14.16% 13
Yorkshire -32 23 £525 -12.32% 3
West Midlands -31 22 £659 -1.42% 3
Midlands -36 22 £659 -1.42% 5
South West 0 14 £700 +14.29% 1
North West -19 11 £402 -2.55% 10
South East -40 10 £435 -30.95% 8
East of England - 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 9 (5.59%) Confluence
2 6 (3.73%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.24%) SAS
5 2 (1.24%) Traefik
6 1 (0.62%) CMS
6 1 (0.62%) IIS
6 1 (0.62%) nginx
6 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.62%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 83 (51.55%) Azure
2 42 (26.09%) GitHub
3 41 (25.47%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (21.12%) AWS
5 19 (11.80%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (10.56%) Entra ID
7 16 (9.94%) GCP
7 16 (9.94%) SaaS
8 15 (9.32%) Datadog
9 14 (8.70%) PaaS
9 14 (8.70%) Serverless
10 13 (8.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (8.07%) OpenShift
11 12 (7.45%) IaaS
12 11 (6.83%) Azure AKS
13 10 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (6.21%) Power Platform
14 9 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (5.59%) Azure Service Fabric
15 8 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.35%) Firewall
2 6 (3.73%) VPN
3 5 (3.11%) DNS
4 3 (1.86%) DHCP
4 3 (1.86%) HTTP
4 3 (1.86%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.24%) Calico
5 2 (1.24%) LAN
5 2 (1.24%) WAN
6 1 (0.62%) BGP
6 1 (0.62%) IPsec
6 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.62%) VLAN
6 1 (0.62%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (6.21%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.59%) Metadata
3 9 (5.59%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.59%) Power BI
3 9 (5.59%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.97%) Redis
5 7 (4.35%) Delta Lake
5 7 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.11%) Big Data
7 5 (3.11%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.11%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.86%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.86%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (22.36%) Jenkins
2 25 (15.53%) Git
3 22 (13.66%) GitLab
4 21 (13.04%) SonarQube
5 15 (9.32%) JIRA
6 10 (6.21%) Cypress.io
7 8 (4.97%) JUnit
8 7 (4.35%) Maven
8 7 (4.35%) Postman
9 6 (3.73%) CircleCI
9 6 (3.73%) Selenium
10 5 (3.11%) Artifactory
10 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
10 5 (3.11%) Gradle
10 5 (3.11%) Snyk
10 5 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (3.11%) webpack
11 3 (1.86%) Mockito
11 3 (1.86%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (8.07%) Finance
3 11 (6.83%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.11%) Banking
7 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.62%) Law
8 1 (0.62%) Publishing
8 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (22.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (16.15%) Developer
3 21 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
4 17 (10.56%) Data Engineer
5 16 (9.94%) Senior
6 12 (7.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (6.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) Lead
10 8 (4.97%) Architect
10 8 (4.97%) Cloud Specialist
11 7 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
12 6 (3.73%) Administrator
13 5 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (3.11%) Senior Data Engineer
14 4 (2.48%) Consultant
14 4 (2.48%) Project Manager
14 4 (2.48%) Support Engineer
14 4 (2.48%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.50%) Node.js
2 24 (14.91%) JSON
3 20 (12.42%) GraphQL
4 19 (11.80%) Playwright
4 19 (11.80%) Vitest
5 16 (9.94%) .NET
6 12 (7.45%) ARM Templates
7 11 (6.83%) Entity Framework
7 11 (6.83%) PySpark
8 10 (6.21%) RESTful
8 10 (6.21%) XML
9 9 (5.59%) Kafka
9 9 (5.59%) REST
10 8 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (4.97%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.35%) Jest
12 6 (3.73%) OAuth
12 6 (3.73%) SailPoint
12 6 (3.73%) Swagger
13 5 (3.11%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.88%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.59%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.11%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.48%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.24%) NHS
6 2 (1.24%) PACS
6 2 (1.24%) STIX
6 2 (1.24%) YARA
7 1 (0.62%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.62%) Replication
7 1 (0.62%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.12%) Linux
2 9 (5.59%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.97%) CentOS
3 8 (4.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.97%) Windows
4 4 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.86%) VMS
6 2 (1.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (81.99%) CI/CD
2 128 (79.50%) DevOps
3 75 (46.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (38.51%) Agile
5 48 (29.81%) Containerisation
6 37 (22.98%) Mentoring
7 33 (20.50%) Software Engineering
7 33 (20.50%) Test Automation
8 27 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (16.15%) DevSecOps
10 25 (15.53%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (14.29%) RBAC
12 22 (13.66%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (11.80%) Coaching
14 17 (10.56%) Data Engineering
14 17 (10.56%) ITSM
14 17 (10.56%) Microservices
14 17 (10.56%) Migration
14 17 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.75%) Python
2 49 (30.43%) SQL
3 23 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 16 (9.94%) PowerShell
5 15 (9.32%) C#
6 13 (8.07%) Java
6 13 (8.07%) JavaScript
7 12 (7.45%) Bash
8 9 (5.59%) Bicep
9 8 (4.97%) Perl
9 8 (4.97%) Ruby
10 5 (3.11%) R
10 5 (3.11%) Scala
11 4 (2.48%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.48%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.86%) Go
12 3 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.86%) PHP
12 3 (1.86%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 50 (31.06%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.47%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.32%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.97%) RHCE
5 6 (3.73%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.73%) Degree
6 2 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.24%) CISSP
6 2 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.24%) GCFA
6 2 (1.24%) GCIA
6 2 (1.24%) GCIH
6 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.83%) NCSC
2 9 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.97%) QA
4 2 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.24%) GDPR
4 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.24%) NIST
4 2 (1.24%) WCAG
5 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 71 (44.10%) Docker
2 15 (9.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.24%) HDFS
3 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.24%) Xen
4 1 (0.62%) etcd
4 1 (0.62%) KVM
4 1 (0.62%) Squid
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (35.40%) Kubernetes
2 54 (33.54%) Terraform
3 42 (26.09%) Ansible
4 23 (14.29%) Grafana
5 18 (11.18%) Prometheus
6 16 (9.94%) Puppet
7 10 (6.21%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (3.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (3.73%) Podman
10 5 (3.11%) Packer
11 2 (1.24%) Argo
11 2 (1.24%) Istio
12 1 (0.62%) Control-M
12 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.62%) Kibana
12 1 (0.62%) logstash
12 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (17.39%) Red Hat
2 23 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.70%) Databricks
4 13 (8.07%) Splunk
5 9 (5.59%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.11%) Oracle
7 4 (2.48%) Google
8 3 (1.86%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.86%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.24%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.24%) Sonatype
9 2 (1.24%) Veracode
10 1 (0.62%) AlgoSec
10 1 (0.62%) Juniper
10 1 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.62%) NetApp
10 1 (0.62%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.62%) Talend
10 1 (0.62%) VMware