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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 420 392
Rank change year-on-year -1 -28 -57
Contract jobs citing YAML 179 63 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.23% 1.17% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 53 113
10th Percentile £403 £345 £419
25th Percentile £431 £425 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £582
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.09% +1.22%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £645
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +3.50% -13.04% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 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 8,012 5,403 7,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.18% 22.52% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,737 5,386
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £536
% change year-on-year +0.86% -2.85% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 106 239
10th Percentile £31.03 £31.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.00 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 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 4 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 -32 77 £550 +10.55% 11
North of England -25 52 £500 +17.65% 5
Yorkshire -26 36 £520 +45.45% 1
Midlands -45 23 £425 -10.53% 2
West Midlands -43 21 £407 -14.32% 1
South East -55 18 £525 -4.55% 12
North West -15 16 £431 -11.59%
East Midlands -25 2 £525 +7.69% 1
South West -33 1 - - 1
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 (6.15%) Confluence
2 6 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.79%) Apache
3 5 (2.79%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.23%) nginx
5 3 (1.68%) IIS
5 3 (1.68%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.56%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (56.42%) Azure
2 59 (32.96%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (20.67%) GitHub
4 33 (18.44%) AWS
5 25 (13.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (11.17%) Entra ID
7 17 (9.50%) Azure AKS
7 17 (9.50%) GCP
7 17 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (9.50%) Power Platform
8 16 (8.94%) PaaS
9 14 (7.82%) Serverless
10 12 (6.70%) Azure Service Fabric
10 12 (6.70%) OpenShift
11 10 (5.59%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.59%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (5.03%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (4.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (4.47%) IaaS
14 7 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.03%) Firewall
2 5 (2.79%) DNS
3 4 (2.23%) VPN
4 3 (1.68%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.68%) NAS
4 3 (1.68%) SAN
5 2 (1.12%) HTTP
5 2 (1.12%) Internet
6 1 (0.56%) DHCP
6 1 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.56%) LAN
6 1 (0.56%) SSL
6 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.82%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (7.26%) Metadata
3 13 (7.26%) Power BI
4 9 (5.03%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.35%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.79%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.79%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.23%) MySQL
8 4 (2.23%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.68%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (20.67%) Git
2 30 (16.76%) Jenkins
3 29 (16.20%) GitLab
4 18 (10.06%) SonarQube
5 17 (9.50%) JIRA
6 9 (5.03%) Maven
7 8 (4.47%) JUnit
8 7 (3.91%) Mockito
9 5 (2.79%) Postman
10 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.23%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.68%) NUnit
12 2 (1.12%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.12%) ER Studio
12 2 (1.12%) ERwin
12 2 (1.12%) PowerDesigner
13 1 (0.56%) Serilog
13 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.56%) Travis CI
13 1 (0.56%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 36 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.20%) Finance
3 18 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.82%) Banking
5 10 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.79%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (22.35%) Developer
2 37 (20.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (13.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (11.17%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (10.61%) Data Engineer
6 15 (8.38%) Senior
7 14 (7.82%) Architect
7 14 (7.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Lead
9 8 (4.47%) .NET Developer
10 7 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Salesforce Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) React Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (2.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 4 (2.23%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.88%) JSON
2 27 (15.08%) Node.js
3 20 (11.17%) RESTful
4 19 (10.61%) .NET
4 19 (10.61%) ARM Templates
5 17 (9.50%) Django
5 17 (9.50%) Entity Framework
6 16 (8.94%) Flask
7 14 (7.82%) XML
8 13 (7.26%) React
9 10 (5.59%) REST
10 9 (5.03%) Swagger
11 8 (4.47%) Kafka
11 8 (4.47%) SLSA
12 7 (3.91%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.91%) OpenAPI
12 7 (3.91%) SailPoint
13 6 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (3.35%) React Native
13 6 (3.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.23%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.68%) Wiki
5 2 (1.12%) Clustering
5 2 (1.12%) CMDB
5 2 (1.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.12%) STIX
5 2 (1.12%) YARA
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.32%) Linux
2 11 (6.15%) CentOS
2 11 (6.15%) Ubuntu
3 10 (5.59%) Windows
4 9 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.12%) zOS
7 1 (0.56%) Unix
7 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (74.86%) CI/CD
2 122 (68.16%) DevOps
3 57 (31.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (26.82%) Agile
5 33 (18.44%) Containerisation
6 31 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (13.41%) RBAC
9 23 (12.85%) Test Automation
10 22 (12.29%) Mentoring
11 21 (11.73%) Migration
12 20 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.17%) Workflow
13 19 (10.61%) Data Integration
14 18 (10.06%) Data Modelling
14 18 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (10.06%) Software Engineering
14 18 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (9.50%) ITSM
16 16 (8.94%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (53.07%) Python
2 61 (34.08%) SQL
3 39 (21.79%) PowerShell
4 25 (13.97%) Java
5 24 (13.41%) Bash
5 24 (13.41%) C#
6 21 (11.73%) Bicep
7 17 (9.50%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.03%) Groovy
8 9 (5.03%) Perl
8 9 (5.03%) Ruby
9 7 (3.91%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.35%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.79%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.79%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.79%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.12%) C++
13 2 (1.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.03%) RHCE
4 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.23%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.12%) CISSP
7 2 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.12%) GCFA
7 2 (1.12%) GCIA
7 2 (1.12%) GCIH
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.03%) QA
2 8 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.79%) GDPR
4 3 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.12%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (24.02%) Docker
2 17 (9.50%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.68%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.68%) Postfix
6 2 (1.12%) NFS
6 2 (1.12%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.56%) Firmware
7 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (35.20%) Terraform
2 46 (25.70%) Ansible
3 33 (18.44%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.38%) Puppet
5 11 (6.15%) Grafana
6 10 (5.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 10 (5.59%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.91%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.23%) Data Guard
9 4 (2.23%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.68%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.56%) Istio
12 1 (0.56%) Kibana
12 1 (0.56%) logstash
12 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (17.32%) Microsoft
1 31 (17.32%) Red Hat
2 17 (9.50%) Databricks
3 11 (6.15%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.47%) Sonatype
4 8 (4.47%) Veracode
5 6 (3.35%) F5
6 5 (2.79%) Google
6 5 (2.79%) Splunk
7 4 (2.23%) NEC
7 4 (2.23%) Oracle
8 3 (1.68%) Cisco
8 3 (1.68%) IBM
8 3 (1.68%) Juniper
9 2 (1.12%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.12%) Brocade
9 2 (1.12%) Dell
9 2 (1.12%) OpenText
9 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.12%) VMware