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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 382 403
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 -37
Contract jobs citing YAML 190 82 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.41% 1.50% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 57 108
10th Percentile £391 £400 £412
25th Percentile £413 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -7.56% +0.85%
75th Percentile £550 £663 £658
90th Percentile £613 £683 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +4.89%
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 7,884 5,476 7,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.93% 22.60% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,272 3,775 5,394
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.92% -5.65%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 88 173
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.38 £20.78
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.19 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £48.72
% change year-on-year +2.77% +29.82% -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 27 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 27 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 -25 87 £525 +5.00% 14
North of England -26 47 £500 -14.16% 5
Yorkshire -30 29 £515 -11.59% 1
Midlands -49 25 £450 -37.93% 7
West Midlands -43 23 £450 -37.93% 5
South East -52 18 £493 -21.20% 22
North West - 18 £431 - 1
South West -19 7 £800 +28.00% 1
East of England - 2 £525 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 2
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 (6.32%) Confluence
2 6 (3.16%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.05%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.05%) SAS
5 1 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) IIS
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (56.84%) Azure
2 60 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (16.32%) GitHub
4 29 (15.26%) AWS
5 28 (14.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 18 (9.47%) PaaS
7 18 (9.47%) Serverless
8 15 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (7.89%) Power Platform
9 14 (7.37%) Datadog
9 14 (7.37%) GCP
10 13 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (6.32%) Azure AKS
12 11 (5.79%) Azure Service Fabric
13 10 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (5.26%) IaaS
13 10 (5.26%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.26%) SaaS
14 9 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.68%) Firewall
2 6 (3.16%) VPN
3 3 (1.58%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.05%) DNS
4 2 (1.05%) HTTP
4 2 (1.05%) LAN
4 2 (1.05%) WAN
5 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.53%) SSL
5 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.95%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.37%) Metadata
3 14 (7.37%) Power BI
4 10 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.16%) Delta Lake
6 6 (3.16%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.16%) Spark SQL
7 5 (2.63%) Big Data
7 5 (2.63%) Redis
8 4 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.11%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 43 (22.63%) Jenkins
2 36 (18.95%) Git
3 32 (16.84%) GitLab
4 22 (11.58%) SonarQube
5 17 (8.95%) JIRA
6 9 (4.74%) Maven
7 8 (4.21%) JUnit
8 6 (3.16%) Mockito
8 6 (3.16%) Postman
9 3 (1.58%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.58%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.58%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.58%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.05%) Gradle
10 2 (1.05%) Selenium
10 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 27 (14.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.05%) Finance
3 18 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.74%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.21%) Banking
8 5 (2.63%) Publishing
9 1 (0.53%) Electronics
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (26.84%) Developer
2 39 (20.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 27 (14.21%) Data Engineer
5 23 (12.11%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (9.47%) Senior
7 12 (6.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.79%) Lead
9 9 (4.74%) Azure Data Engineer
9 9 (4.74%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.21%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.21%) Architect
11 7 (3.68%) Administrator
12 6 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.16%) Salesforce Developer
12 6 (3.16%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.63%) Cloud Specialist
13 5 (2.63%) React Developer
13 5 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (2.63%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.58%) Node.js
2 28 (14.74%) JSON
3 21 (11.05%) .NET
4 20 (10.53%) ARM Templates
5 19 (10.00%) RESTful
6 17 (8.95%) Django
7 16 (8.42%) Flask
7 16 (8.42%) GraphQL
7 16 (8.42%) Playwright
7 16 (8.42%) Vitest
8 15 (7.89%) Entity Framework
8 15 (7.89%) React
9 14 (7.37%) XML
10 12 (6.32%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (5.26%) PySpark
11 10 (5.26%) REST
12 9 (4.74%) Swagger
13 8 (4.21%) Kafka
14 7 (3.68%) .NET Core
14 7 (3.68%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.68%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.58%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.58%) Wiki
6 2 (1.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.05%) NHS
6 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.05%) PACS
6 2 (1.05%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) STIX
6 2 (1.05%) YARA
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.79%) Linux
2 9 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (4.74%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.21%) CentOS
4 6 (3.16%) Windows
5 2 (1.05%) Unix
5 2 (1.05%) VMS
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 140 (73.68%) DevOps
3 69 (36.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (32.11%) Agile
5 40 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 35 (18.42%) Containerisation
7 33 (17.37%) Mentoring
7 33 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (14.74%) Test Automation
9 26 (13.68%) Software Engineering
10 24 (12.63%) Data Engineering
10 24 (12.63%) RBAC
11 22 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.53%) Data Integration
12 20 (10.53%) DevSecOps
13 18 (9.47%) API Design
13 18 (9.47%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (9.47%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (8.95%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (8.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 88 (46.32%) Python
2 72 (37.89%) SQL
3 28 (14.74%) PowerShell
4 25 (13.16%) Java
5 24 (12.63%) C#
6 22 (11.58%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.53%) TypeScript
8 19 (10.00%) Bash
9 18 (9.47%) Bicep
10 9 (4.74%) Ruby
11 8 (4.21%) Groovy
11 8 (4.21%) Perl
12 7 (3.68%) T-SQL
13 5 (2.63%) Apex Code
13 5 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (2.63%) R
13 5 (2.63%) Scala
14 4 (2.11%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.58%) PHP
15 3 (1.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.79%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.74%) RHCE
5 5 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.58%) Degree
6 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.05%) CISSP
7 2 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.05%) GCFA
7 2 (1.05%) GCIA
7 2 (1.05%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (2.11%) GDPR
3 3 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (1.58%) NCSC
4 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.05%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.05%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (31.58%) Docker
2 13 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.05%) HDFS
4 2 (1.05%) Xen
5 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (30.00%) Terraform
2 46 (24.21%) Kubernetes
3 36 (18.95%) Ansible
4 19 (10.00%) Grafana
5 18 (9.47%) Prometheus
6 16 (8.42%) Puppet
7 8 (4.21%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.58%) Podman
10 2 (1.05%) Packer
11 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.53%) Istio
11 1 (0.53%) Kibana
11 1 (0.53%) logstash
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 29 (15.26%) Microsoft
3 22 (11.58%) Databricks
4 11 (5.79%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.21%) Veracode
6 7 (3.68%) Sonatype
6 7 (3.68%) Splunk
7 4 (2.11%) NEC
8 3 (1.58%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.58%) Oracle
9 2 (1.05%) F5
10 1 (0.53%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.53%) Google
10 1 (0.53%) IBM
10 1 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.53%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.53%) Talend