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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 389 410
Rank change year-on-year -8 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing YAML 149 107 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.39% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.13% 1.79% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 68 116
10th Percentile £381 £475 £430
25th Percentile £430 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +2.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £665 £670
90th Percentile £700 £701 £714
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £576
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile - £56.50 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -23.08% +40.86%
75th Percentile £48.75 £78.13 -
90th Percentile £73.25 £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% -23.08% +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 7,000 5,987 7,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.25% 21.79% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,678 3,822 5,641
10th Percentile £356 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £635 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £784 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 68 162
10th Percentile £32.86 £26.25 £31.33
25th Percentile £45.00 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +19.74% -19.70%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +16.82% -17.69%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +7 83 £500 -16.67% 14
North of England -33 22 £513 -12.02% 5
West Midlands -35 20 £700 +14.38% 5
Midlands -35 20 £700 +14.38% 6
Yorkshire -33 16 £525 -12.32% 4
South West +5 15 £700 +14.29%
South East -24 11 £435 -30.40% 8
North West -18 5 £420 +1.82% 1
East of England - 2 - -
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 7 (4.70%) Confluence
2 5 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.36%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
3 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.34%) SAS
4 2 (1.34%) Traefik
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 85 (57.05%) Azure
2 46 (30.87%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (26.85%) GitHub
4 30 (20.13%) AWS
5 19 (12.75%) Entra ID
5 19 (12.75%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (10.74%) GCP
6 16 (10.74%) SaaS
7 15 (10.07%) Datadog
8 14 (9.40%) PaaS
9 13 (8.72%) IaaS
9 13 (8.72%) Serverless
10 12 (8.05%) Azure AKS
10 12 (8.05%) OpenShift
11 11 (7.38%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (6.71%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (6.04%) Azure Service Fabric
14 8 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (5.37%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.37%) Firewall
2 6 (4.03%) DNS
2 6 (4.03%) VPN
3 4 (2.68%) DHCP
4 3 (2.01%) HTTP
4 3 (2.01%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.34%) Calico
5 2 (1.34%) LAN
5 2 (1.34%) WAN
6 1 (0.67%) BGP
6 1 (0.67%) IPsec
6 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.67%) VLAN
6 1 (0.67%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.04%) Redis
3 7 (4.70%) Delta Lake
3 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.03%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.03%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.36%) Big Data
5 5 (3.36%) Metadata
5 5 (3.36%) Power BI
6 4 (2.68%) Spark SQL
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.01%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (2.01%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (22.15%) Jenkins
2 25 (16.78%) Git
3 17 (11.41%) SonarQube
4 15 (10.07%) GitLab
5 13 (8.72%) JIRA
6 10 (6.71%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.03%) CircleCI
7 6 (4.03%) Postman
7 6 (4.03%) Selenium
8 5 (3.36%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.36%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.36%) Gradle
8 5 (3.36%) JUnit
8 5 (3.36%) Maven
8 5 (3.36%) Snyk
8 5 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.36%) webpack
9 3 (2.01%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.67%) Mocha
General
1 25 (16.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.71%) Finance
3 9 (6.04%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.70%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.01%) Banking
7 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (25.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (14.09%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (13.42%) Developer
4 15 (10.07%) Senior
5 14 (9.40%) Data Engineer
6 12 (8.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 12 (8.05%) Software Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.37%) Cloud Specialist
9 7 (4.70%) Administrator
9 7 (4.70%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Architect
10 6 (4.03%) Lead
11 5 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.68%) Consultant
12 4 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (2.68%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.13%) Node.js
2 21 (14.09%) JSON
3 20 (13.42%) GraphQL
4 19 (12.75%) Playwright
4 19 (12.75%) Vitest
5 15 (10.07%) .NET
6 12 (8.05%) ARM Templates
7 11 (7.38%) Entity Framework
8 10 (6.71%) PySpark
9 8 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (5.37%) Kafka
9 8 (5.37%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (5.37%) XML
10 7 (4.70%) REST
11 6 (4.03%) Jest
11 6 (4.03%) OAuth
11 6 (4.03%) SailPoint
12 5 (3.36%) Keycloak
13 4 (2.68%) .NET Core
13 4 (2.68%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (20.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.68%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.01%) STIX
5 3 (2.01%) YARA
6 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.34%) NHS
6 2 (1.34%) PACS
7 1 (0.67%) CUDA
7 1 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.67%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.67%) Replication
7 1 (0.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.82%) Linux
2 11 (7.38%) Windows
3 7 (4.70%) Ubuntu
4 6 (4.03%) CentOS
4 6 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.36%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.01%) VMS
7 2 (1.34%) Unix
8 1 (0.67%) Android
8 1 (0.67%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (85.91%) DevOps
2 121 (81.21%) CI/CD
3 76 (51.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (38.93%) Agile
5 48 (32.21%) Containerisation
6 34 (22.82%) Mentoring
7 33 (22.15%) Software Engineering
8 29 (19.46%) Test Automation
9 24 (16.11%) DevSecOps
10 23 (15.44%) Platform Engineering
11 22 (14.77%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (12.75%) Coaching
13 19 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (12.08%) RBAC
15 17 (11.41%) Microservices
16 16 (10.74%) E-Commerce
17 15 (10.07%) End-to-End Testing
17 15 (10.07%) Migration
18 13 (8.72%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 60 (40.27%) Python
2 42 (28.19%) SQL
3 22 (14.77%) TypeScript
4 20 (13.42%) PowerShell
5 13 (8.72%) Bash
5 13 (8.72%) C#
6 12 (8.05%) Bicep
7 10 (6.71%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.03%) Perl
8 6 (4.03%) Ruby
9 4 (2.68%) Java
9 4 (2.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.68%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.68%) R
9 4 (2.68%) Scala
10 3 (2.01%) Go
10 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.01%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (31.54%) Security Cleared
2 40 (26.85%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.07%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.03%) Degree
4 6 (4.03%) RHCE
5 5 (3.36%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.01%) CISSP
6 3 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.01%) GCFA
6 3 (2.01%) GCIA
6 3 (2.01%) GCIH
7 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.38%) NCSC
2 7 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.03%) QA
4 3 (2.01%) NIST
5 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.34%) WCAG
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 71 (47.65%) Docker
2 18 (12.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.34%) HDFS
3 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.34%) Xen
4 1 (0.67%) etcd
4 1 (0.67%) KVM
4 1 (0.67%) Squid
4 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (39.60%) Kubernetes
2 54 (36.24%) Terraform
3 38 (25.50%) Ansible
4 27 (18.12%) Grafana
5 22 (14.77%) Prometheus
6 14 (9.40%) Puppet
7 10 (6.71%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.70%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (4.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (4.03%) Packer
9 6 (4.03%) Podman
10 2 (1.34%) Argo
10 2 (1.34%) Istio
11 1 (0.67%) Control-M
11 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.67%) Kibana
11 1 (0.67%) logstash
11 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.44%) Red Hat
3 15 (10.07%) Databricks
4 14 (9.40%) Splunk
5 5 (3.36%) Google
5 5 (3.36%) Oracle
5 5 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.01%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.01%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.34%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.67%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.67%) Juniper
8 1 (0.67%) NetApp
8 1 (0.67%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.67%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.67%) VMware