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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 397 412
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -30
Contract jobs citing YAML 185 82 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.37% 1.48% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 53 112
10th Percentile £385 £440 £415
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £595
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.46% -0.83%
75th Percentile £550 £653 £658
90th Percentile £600 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile - £63.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £73.75 -
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 £92.50 -
% change year-on-year -48.65% - -

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 7,804 5,531 7,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.01% 22.63% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,246 3,764 5,391
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -0.83% -5.65%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 84 187
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.22 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.14 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -10 84 £525 +2.64% 14
North of England -31 46 £500 -14.16% 6
Yorkshire -37 27 £520 -10.73% 1
Midlands -47 26 £450 -37.93% 9
West Midlands -49 24 £450 -37.93% 6
North West - 19 £430 - 2
South East -61 17 £460 -26.40% 31
South West -21 8 £750 +22.45% 3
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 3
East of England - 1 - - 9
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 12 (6.49%) Confluence
2 6 (3.24%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.08%) Apache
4 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.08%) SAS
5 1 (0.54%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.54%) nginx
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (56.76%) Azure
2 55 (29.73%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (15.14%) GitHub
4 27 (14.59%) AWS
5 24 (12.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (9.73%) Entra ID
6 18 (9.73%) PaaS
6 18 (9.73%) Serverless
7 15 (8.11%) Power Platform
8 14 (7.57%) Datadog
9 12 (6.49%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (6.49%) GCP
10 11 (5.95%) Azure Service Fabric
10 11 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.41%) IaaS
11 10 (5.41%) OpenShift
11 10 (5.41%) SaaS
12 9 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.32%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (4.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.78%) Firewall
2 6 (3.24%) VPN
3 3 (1.62%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.08%) DNS
4 2 (1.08%) HTTP
4 2 (1.08%) LAN
4 2 (1.08%) WAN
5 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.54%) SSL
5 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.19%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.57%) Power BI
4 12 (6.49%) Metadata
5 10 (5.41%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.24%) Delta Lake
7 6 (3.24%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.24%) Redis
7 6 (3.24%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.70%) Big Data
9 4 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.16%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 35 (18.92%) Git
3 29 (15.68%) GitLab
4 21 (11.35%) SonarQube
5 17 (9.19%) JIRA
6 8 (4.32%) JUnit
7 7 (3.78%) Maven
8 6 (3.24%) Mockito
8 6 (3.24%) Postman
9 4 (2.16%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.62%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.62%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.62%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (1.08%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.08%) Gradle
11 2 (1.08%) Selenium
11 2 (1.08%) Snyk
11 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 24 (12.97%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (9.73%) Finance
3 13 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.32%) Banking
6 3 (1.62%) Publishing
7 1 (0.54%) Law
7 1 (0.54%) Retail
7 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (27.57%) Developer
2 33 (17.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (16.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 27 (14.59%) Data Engineer
5 21 (11.35%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (9.19%) Senior
7 11 (5.95%) Lead
8 10 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Architect
9 9 (4.86%) Azure Data Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.78%) Administrator
12 6 (3.24%) Salesforce Developer
12 6 (3.24%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 5 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.70%) React Developer
13 5 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (2.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (21.62%) Node.js
2 26 (14.05%) JSON
3 20 (10.81%) .NET
4 19 (10.27%) RESTful
5 17 (9.19%) Django
6 16 (8.65%) ARM Templates
6 16 (8.65%) Flask
6 16 (8.65%) GraphQL
6 16 (8.65%) Playwright
6 16 (8.65%) Vitest
7 15 (8.11%) Entity Framework
7 15 (8.11%) React
8 14 (7.57%) XML
9 12 (6.49%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (5.95%) PySpark
10 11 (5.95%) REST
11 9 (4.86%) Swagger
12 8 (4.32%) Kafka
13 7 (3.78%) .NET Core
13 7 (3.78%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.05%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.78%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.62%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.62%) Wiki
6 2 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.08%) NHS
6 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.08%) PACS
6 2 (1.08%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.08%) STIX
6 2 (1.08%) YARA
7 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.22%) Linux
2 9 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (4.86%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.32%) CentOS
4 6 (3.24%) Windows
5 2 (1.08%) Unix
5 2 (1.08%) VMS
5 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (78.92%) CI/CD
2 134 (72.43%) DevOps
3 66 (35.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (32.97%) Agile
5 41 (22.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 33 (17.84%) Mentoring
7 32 (17.30%) Containerisation
8 31 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (14.59%) Test Automation
10 26 (14.05%) Software Engineering
11 25 (13.51%) Data Engineering
12 24 (12.97%) RBAC
13 22 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (10.81%) Data Integration
15 19 (10.27%) DevSecOps
16 18 (9.73%) API Design
16 18 (9.73%) Data Pipeline
17 17 (9.19%) Deployment Automation
17 17 (9.19%) ITSM
17 17 (9.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 81 (43.78%) Python
2 73 (39.46%) SQL
3 24 (12.97%) Java
3 24 (12.97%) PowerShell
4 23 (12.43%) C#
5 22 (11.89%) JavaScript
6 20 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.11%) Bash
8 14 (7.57%) Bicep
9 9 (4.86%) Ruby
10 8 (4.32%) Perl
11 7 (3.78%) T-SQL
12 6 (3.24%) Groovy
13 5 (2.70%) Apex Code
13 5 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (2.70%) R
13 5 (2.70%) Scala
14 4 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (2.16%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (22.70%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.86%) RHCE
4 7 (3.78%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.62%) Degree
6 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.08%) CISSP
7 2 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.08%) GCFA
7 2 (1.08%) GCIA
7 2 (1.08%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.41%) QA
2 4 (2.16%) GDPR
2 4 (2.16%) NCSC
3 3 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.08%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.08%) NIST
4 2 (1.08%) WCAG
5 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 58 (31.35%) Docker
2 13 (7.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.08%) HDFS
4 2 (1.08%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (27.57%) Terraform
2 42 (22.70%) Kubernetes
3 32 (17.30%) Ansible
4 18 (9.73%) Grafana
5 17 (9.19%) Prometheus
6 12 (6.49%) Puppet
7 7 (3.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (3.78%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.62%) Podman
10 2 (1.08%) Packer
11 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.54%) Istio
11 1 (0.54%) Kibana
11 1 (0.54%) logstash
11 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (16.22%) Red Hat
2 29 (15.68%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.73%) Databricks
4 11 (5.95%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.32%) Veracode
6 6 (3.24%) Splunk
7 5 (2.70%) Sonatype
8 4 (2.16%) NEC
9 3 (1.62%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.62%) Oracle
10 2 (1.08%) F5
11 1 (0.54%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.54%) Google
11 1 (0.54%) IBM
11 1 (0.54%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.54%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.54%) Talend