YAML Contracts in England

YAML
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring YAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YAML over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 403 360
Rank change year-on-year -20 -43 +227
Contract jobs citing YAML 75 153 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.41% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.28% 1.92% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 99 224
10th Percentile £349 £455 £458
25th Percentile £418 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £688
90th Percentile £669 £675 £796
UK median daily rate £498 £575 £569
% change year-on-year -13.48% +1.10% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £73.50
25th Percentile £91.25 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £93.75 - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.25 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +41.82%

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 5,868 7,952 10,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.48% 21.28% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,045 5,540 7,925
10th Percentile £355 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 264 138
10th Percentile £30.50 £23.80 £30.53
25th Percentile £43.44 £43.00 £50.31
Median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.48 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in England.

Daily rate trend for YAML in England

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 2025. 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 +16 42 £488 -19.59% 57
South East +33 17 £500 -9.50% 18
Midlands +8 9 £488 -15.36% 12
West Midlands 0 7 £547 -5.12% 12
North of England -10 4 £425 -31.67% 20
South West +9 2 £719 +31.28% 2
North West +8 2 £488 -4.88% 13
Yorkshire -13 2 £358 -42.66% 6
East Midlands - 2 £488 -
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (16.00%) Apache
2 9 (12.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.33%) IIS
3 4 (5.33%) Jupyter
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (4.00%) Confluence
5 1 (1.33%) nginx
5 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 52 (69.33%) Azure
2 31 (41.33%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (21.33%) GitHub
4 15 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (14.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (14.67%) OpenShift
5 11 (14.67%) Power Platform
6 9 (12.00%) Azure API Management
6 9 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (10.67%) Azure AKS
8 7 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (9.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (9.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (8.00%) Azure Storage
9 6 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (6.67%) AWS
10 5 (6.67%) Azure Functions
10 5 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (6.67%) Serverless
11 4 (5.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.33%) DNS
2 8 (10.67%) Network Security
3 7 (9.33%) SMTP
4 6 (8.00%) Firewall
5 5 (6.67%) HTTP
5 5 (6.67%) SSL
6 4 (5.33%) BGP
6 4 (5.33%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (5.33%) SAN
6 4 (5.33%) SSH
7 3 (4.00%) DHCP
7 3 (4.00%) FTP
7 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.00%) VPN
8 2 (2.67%) IPv6
8 2 (2.67%) MPLS
8 2 (2.67%) OSPF
8 2 (2.67%) Spanning Tree
8 2 (2.67%) TACACS
8 2 (2.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) Power BI
2 9 (12.00%) Delta Lake
2 9 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.00%) Apache Hive
3 6 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.67%) Redis
5 3 (4.00%) Big Data
5 3 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.00%) Parquet
6 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.33%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 20 (26.67%) Git
2 12 (16.00%) JIRA
3 4 (5.33%) GitLab
3 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.33%) RStudio
4 3 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.67%) Maven
5 2 (2.67%) Moq
5 2 (2.67%) Postman
5 2 (2.67%) Selenium
5 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.33%) JMeter
6 1 (1.33%) JUnit
6 1 (1.33%) MSTest
6 1 (1.33%) NUnit
6 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.33%) Finance
3 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Law
6 3 (4.00%) Banking
7 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (22.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (14.67%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Developer
5 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Lead
7 4 (5.33%) Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior
7 4 (5.33%) Site Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.67%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Network Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.00%) JSON
2 12 (16.00%) .NET
3 11 (14.67%) ARM Templates
3 11 (14.67%) PySpark
4 10 (13.33%) ADO
5 7 (9.33%) XML
6 6 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (8.00%) Kafka
6 6 (8.00%) pydantic
7 5 (6.67%) Keycloak
7 5 (6.67%) REST
8 4 (5.33%) .NET Framework
8 4 (5.33%) SOAP
9 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.67%) .NET Core
10 2 (2.67%) NETCONF
10 2 (2.67%) RESTCONF
10 2 (2.67%) RESTful
10 2 (2.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.67%) Reference Data
4 4 (5.33%) PKI
5 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.00%) Legacy Code
5 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) CMDB
7 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.67%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) CentOS
3 3 (4.00%) Windows
4 2 (2.67%) Debian
4 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (72.00%) DevOps
2 44 (58.67%) CI/CD
3 35 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (44.00%) Agile
5 26 (34.67%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (29.33%) Containerisation
7 19 (25.33%) Scrum
8 13 (17.33%) Analytics
8 13 (17.33%) DevSecOps
9 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (14.67%) Observability
10 10 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (13.33%) Log Analytics
10 10 (13.33%) Test Automation
11 9 (12.00%) API Management
11 9 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (10.67%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (8.00%) GitOps
13 6 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (49.33%) Python
2 25 (33.33%) Bash
3 22 (29.33%) PowerShell
4 16 (21.33%) Bicep
4 16 (21.33%) SQL
5 12 (16.00%) C#
6 6 (8.00%) Scala
7 4 (5.33%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.00%) Java
8 3 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.33%) Degree
6 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (2.67%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (17.33%) Docker
2 6 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.67%) Ceph
5 1 (1.33%) iptables
5 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (38.67%) Kubernetes
2 27 (36.00%) Terraform
3 18 (24.00%) Ansible
4 9 (12.00%) Grafana
5 7 (9.33%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.33%) Puppet
6 5 (6.67%) Packer
7 4 (5.33%) Argo
7 4 (5.33%) Salt
8 2 (2.67%) Nessus
9 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.33%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.33%) Podman
9 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) Databricks
2 10 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.00%) VMware
5 5 (6.67%) Cisco
5 5 (6.67%) Splunk
6 2 (2.67%) Dell
6 2 (2.67%) Sophos
7 1 (1.33%) Citrix
7 1 (1.33%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.33%) Google
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle
7 1 (1.33%) Planview
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.33%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.33%) UiPath
7 1 (1.33%) Virgin Media