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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 415 373
Rank change year-on-year -81 -42 +42
Contract jobs citing YAML 143 106 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.38% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.45% 1.48% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 73 96
10th Percentile £400 £361 £475
25th Percentile £475 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £503 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.96% -16.25% +1.27%
75th Percentile £658 £641 £639
90th Percentile £706 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £503 £582
% change year-on-year +4.48% -13.66% +1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.25 £100.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £92.50 £105.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +75.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £93.75 £110.00 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £87.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.71% +45.83% -23.08%

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 9,885 7,166 8,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.60% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,507 4,847 5,303
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 172 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.53 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -70 71 £600 +22.76% 66
North of England -55 24 £513 +22.20% 18
Yorkshire -16 18 £515 +28.66% 6
Midlands -54 18 £450 -35.71% 15
South East -62 16 £525 +10.53% 18
West Midlands -43 14 £413 -41.07% 10
South West -38 6 £674 -3.79% 7
East Midlands -12 4 £475 -2.56% 5
North East -39 4 £513 - 3
North West -53 2 £500 +14.94% 9
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 8 (5.59%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.90%) Apache
2 7 (4.90%) Confluence
3 5 (3.50%) IIS
3 5 (3.50%) nginx
4 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.10%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.55%) Azure
2 66 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (38.46%) AWS
4 47 (32.87%) GitHub
5 27 (18.88%) GCP
6 23 (16.08%) Azure AKS
7 18 (12.59%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (10.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (10.49%) Entra ID
8 15 (10.49%) Power Platform
9 12 (8.39%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (7.69%) Serverless
11 10 (6.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (6.29%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (5.59%) OCI
13 8 (5.59%) OpenShift
14 7 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (4.90%) PaaS
14 7 (4.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.49%) BGP
1 15 (10.49%) Firewall
2 13 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
2 13 (9.09%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.39%) DNS
3 12 (8.39%) NX-OS
4 9 (6.29%) TACACS
5 5 (3.50%) BIG-IP
5 5 (3.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (3.50%) NAS
5 5 (3.50%) Network Security
6 4 (2.80%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (2.80%) DHCP
6 4 (2.80%) VPN
7 3 (2.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (2.10%) OSPF
7 3 (2.10%) SAN
7 3 (2.10%) SSL
8 2 (1.40%) Internet
8 2 (1.40%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.49%) Metadata
2 12 (8.39%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 8 (5.59%) Power BI
5 6 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.50%) Data Hub
6 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.50%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.10%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.10%) MySQL
8 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.40%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.40%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.40%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (35.66%) Git
2 33 (23.08%) GitLab
3 22 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 10 (6.99%) JIRA
5 10 (6.99%) Maven
6 7 (4.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (4.20%) MLflow
8 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.10%) JUnit
9 3 (2.10%) Postman
9 3 (2.10%) Selenium
9 3 (2.10%) Snyk
9 3 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.40%) ER Studio
10 2 (1.40%) ERwin
10 2 (1.40%) Mockito
10 2 (1.40%) NUnit
10 2 (1.40%) PowerDesigner
General
1 32 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.28%) Finance
3 12 (8.39%) Banking
4 8 (5.59%) Publishing
5 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.80%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.10%) Law
8 3 (2.10%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 46 (32.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (20.28%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (14.69%) Architect
3 21 (14.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 14 (9.79%) Senior
5 10 (6.99%) Consultant
6 9 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.59%) Network Engineer
7 8 (5.59%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (5.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.90%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.90%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.90%) Network Architect
8 7 (4.90%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) Analyst
9 6 (4.20%) Automation Architect
9 6 (4.20%) Developer
9 6 (4.20%) DevOps Consultant
10 5 (3.50%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (55.24%) Terraform
2 44 (30.77%) JSON
3 22 (15.38%) REST
4 15 (10.49%) ARM Templates
5 12 (8.39%) Kafka
6 11 (7.69%) Node.js
7 9 (6.29%) .NET
8 8 (5.59%) SLSA
9 5 (3.50%) Flask
9 5 (3.50%) React
10 4 (2.80%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.80%) RESTful
10 4 (2.80%) Spring
10 4 (2.80%) Spring Boot
11 3 (2.10%) .NET Framework
11 3 (2.10%) Django
11 3 (2.10%) LAMP
11 3 (2.10%) LEMP Stack
11 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (2.10%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.59%) Cloud Native
1 18 (12.59%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.99%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (4.20%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.40%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.40%) Clustering
6 2 (1.40%) CMDB
6 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.40%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.40%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.40%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.28%) Linux
2 18 (12.59%) Windows
3 7 (4.90%) Ubuntu
3 7 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.20%) VMS
5 4 (2.80%) CentOS
5 4 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.10%) Unix
7 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.40%) zOS
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (73.43%) CI/CD
2 94 (65.73%) DevOps
3 67 (46.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (25.87%) Agile
5 32 (22.38%) Containerisation
6 31 (21.68%) Migration
7 28 (19.58%) Test Automation
8 27 (18.88%) DevSecOps
9 25 (17.48%) AI
9 25 (17.48%) Analytics
9 25 (17.48%) GitOps
9 25 (17.48%) Observability
10 24 (16.78%) Infrastructure Automation
11 22 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
11 22 (15.38%) Validation
12 21 (14.69%) Data Modelling
13 20 (13.99%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (12.59%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 92 (64.34%) Python
2 53 (37.06%) PowerShell
3 39 (27.27%) Bash
4 34 (23.78%) SQL
5 23 (16.08%) Bicep
6 17 (11.89%) Java
7 8 (5.59%) Groovy
8 7 (4.90%) C#
8 7 (4.90%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.90%) Scala
9 6 (4.20%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.10%) Perl
10 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.10%) R
11 2 (1.40%) Cypher
11 2 (1.40%) JCL
11 2 (1.40%) REXX
11 2 (1.40%) SHACL
11 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 33 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.20%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.10%) CCIE
5 3 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.10%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.40%) CISSP
6 2 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CCNP
7 1 (0.70%) CISM
7 1 (0.70%) CRISC
7 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) QA
2 5 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.10%) NIST
4 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (30.77%) Docker
2 13 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.59%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.10%) Dovecot
7 3 (2.10%) Postfix
8 2 (1.40%) NFS
8 2 (1.40%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 60 (41.96%) Kubernetes
2 44 (30.77%) Ansible
3 14 (9.79%) Grafana
4 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (4.90%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.50%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (2.80%) HAProxy
7 4 (2.80%) Puppet
8 3 (2.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.10%) Data Guard
8 3 (2.10%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.40%) Argo
9 2 (1.40%) Control-M
9 2 (1.40%) Podman
9 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.70%) systemd
Vendors
1 33 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.69%) Cisco
3 20 (13.99%) Google
4 17 (11.89%) Red Hat
5 16 (11.19%) Databricks
6 15 (10.49%) ServiceNow
6 15 (10.49%) VMware
7 9 (6.29%) F5
7 9 (6.29%) Sonatype
8 8 (5.59%) Infoblox
9 5 (3.50%) Juniper
9 5 (3.50%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.50%) Splunk
10 4 (2.80%) Oracle
11 3 (2.10%) Citrix
11 3 (2.10%) Informatica
11 3 (2.10%) NEC
12 2 (1.40%) Brocade
12 2 (1.40%) OpenText
12 2 (1.40%) SolarWinds