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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 400 404
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -16
Contract jobs citing YAML 178 83 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.29% 1.46% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 51 110
10th Percentile £381 £440 £416
25th Percentile £420 £490 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £569 £663 £666
90th Percentile £618 £690 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -11.11% -6.25% -
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 7,781 5,693 7,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.64% 22.62% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,229 3,761 5,411
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £431 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.52% -7.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 78 206
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.92 £21.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.55
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £78.25 £81.34 £76.53
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 4 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 4 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 -12 80 £525 -4.55% 16
North of England -18 47 £500 -14.16% 4
Yorkshire -40 26 £525 -9.87% 1
Midlands -47 24 £573 -20.97% 5
West Midlands -42 23 £571 -21.24% 4
North West - 20 £425 - 2
South East -35 15 £493 -21.83% 18
South West -20 10 £700 +14.29%
East of England - 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £600 - 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 15 (8.43%) Confluence
2 7 (3.93%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.12%) SAS
4 2 (1.12%) Traefik
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (52.81%) Azure
2 48 (26.97%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (17.42%) GitHub
4 27 (15.17%) AWS
5 21 (11.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (10.11%) Entra ID
7 16 (8.99%) PaaS
7 16 (8.99%) Serverless
8 15 (8.43%) Power Platform
9 14 (7.87%) Datadog
9 14 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.74%) OpenShift
11 11 (6.18%) Azure Service Fabric
11 11 (6.18%) SaaS
12 10 (5.62%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (5.62%) GCP
13 9 (5.06%) IaaS
14 8 (4.49%) Amazon S3
14 8 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (4.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.37%) Firewall
1 6 (3.37%) VPN
2 3 (1.69%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.12%) Calico
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
3 2 (1.12%) HTTP
3 2 (1.12%) LAN
3 2 (1.12%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.87%) Power BI
4 12 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (6.18%) Metadata
5 11 (6.18%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.62%) Data Lake
7 9 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (3.93%) Redis
9 6 (3.37%) Delta Lake
9 6 (3.37%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.37%) Spark SQL
10 5 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.81%) Big Data
11 4 (2.25%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (20.22%) Jenkins
2 31 (17.42%) Git
3 28 (15.73%) GitLab
4 23 (12.92%) SonarQube
5 21 (11.80%) JIRA
6 8 (4.49%) JUnit
7 7 (3.93%) Maven
8 6 (3.37%) Postman
9 5 (2.81%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.81%) Mockito
10 4 (2.25%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.69%) Gradle
11 3 (1.69%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.69%) Selenium
11 3 (1.69%) Snyk
11 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.69%) webpack
12 2 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (15.17%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.99%) Finance
4 12 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (6.18%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.93%) Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (24.72%) Developer
2 33 (18.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (13.48%) Data Engineer
3 24 (13.48%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (10.11%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (10.11%) Senior
5 11 (6.18%) Lead
6 10 (5.62%) Software Engineer
7 9 (5.06%) Architect
8 8 (4.49%) .NET Developer
8 8 (4.49%) Azure Data Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Administrator
10 6 (3.37%) Cloud Specialist
10 6 (3.37%) Salesforce Developer
11 5 (2.81%) React Developer
11 5 (2.81%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (2.81%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.81%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (20.79%) Node.js
2 25 (14.04%) JSON
3 20 (11.24%) .NET
4 19 (10.67%) RESTful
5 17 (9.55%) GraphQL
5 17 (9.55%) Playwright
5 17 (9.55%) Vitest
6 16 (8.99%) ARM Templates
7 15 (8.43%) Entity Framework
8 14 (7.87%) XML
9 13 (7.30%) React
10 12 (6.74%) PySpark
10 12 (6.74%) REST
11 11 (6.18%) Django
11 11 (6.18%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (5.62%) Flask
13 9 (5.06%) Swagger
14 8 (4.49%) Kafka
15 7 (3.93%) Jest
15 7 (3.93%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.73%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.69%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.69%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.69%) Wiki
6 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.12%) NHS
6 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.12%) PACS
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.56%) STIX
7 1 (0.56%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.98%) Linux
2 9 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (5.06%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.49%) CentOS
4 4 (2.25%) Windows
5 3 (1.69%) VMS
6 2 (1.12%) Unix
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (80.90%) CI/CD
2 128 (71.91%) DevOps
3 67 (37.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (35.96%) Agile
5 36 (20.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 35 (19.66%) Containerisation
7 34 (19.10%) Mentoring
8 30 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (16.85%) Test Automation
9 29 (16.29%) Software Engineering
10 25 (14.04%) Data Engineering
11 24 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (12.92%) RBAC
13 22 (12.36%) DevSecOps
14 18 (10.11%) API Design
14 18 (10.11%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (9.55%) Coaching
15 17 (9.55%) Data Modelling
15 17 (9.55%) ETL
15 17 (9.55%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 72 (40.45%) Python
2 66 (37.08%) SQL
3 23 (12.92%) Java
4 22 (12.36%) C#
4 22 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 20 (11.24%) PowerShell
6 19 (10.67%) JavaScript
7 15 (8.43%) Bash
8 13 (7.30%) Bicep
9 9 (5.06%) Ruby
10 8 (4.49%) Perl
11 7 (3.93%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.81%) Apex Code
12 5 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (2.81%) R
12 5 (2.81%) Scala
13 4 (2.25%) Groovy
13 4 (2.25%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.69%) PHP
14 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.91%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.06%) DV Cleared
3 9 (5.06%) RHCE
4 7 (3.93%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.25%) Degree
6 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CISSP
7 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) GCFA
7 1 (0.56%) GCIA
7 1 (0.56%) GCIH
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.62%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.62%) QA
2 6 (3.37%) NCSC
3 4 (2.25%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.12%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.12%) WCAG
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (34.83%) Docker
2 12 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) HDFS
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.12%) Xen
4 1 (0.56%) etcd
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (27.53%) Terraform
2 45 (25.28%) Kubernetes
3 33 (18.54%) Ansible
4 22 (12.36%) Grafana
5 18 (10.11%) Prometheus
6 12 (6.74%) Puppet
7 8 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.25%) Podman
9 4 (2.25%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.12%) Argo
10 2 (1.12%) Istio
10 2 (1.12%) Packer
11 1 (0.56%) Control-M
11 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.56%) Kibana
11 1 (0.56%) logstash
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (16.85%) Red Hat
2 28 (15.73%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.55%) Databricks
4 11 (6.18%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.49%) Splunk
5 8 (4.49%) Veracode
6 4 (2.25%) NEC
6 4 (2.25%) Oracle
6 4 (2.25%) Sonatype
7 3 (1.69%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.12%) F5
9 1 (0.56%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.56%) IBM
9 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.56%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.56%) Talend
9 1 (0.56%) VMware