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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 392 401
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing YAML 167 97 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.37% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.29% 1.63% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 57 120
10th Percentile £381 £475 £430
25th Percentile £430 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £590
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.81% -5.60%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £652
90th Percentile £700 £704 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £579 £575
% change year-on-year -11.45% +0.65% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile - £56.63 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £57.19 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £76.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.70% -2.24% +40.86%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £73.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £76.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year -37.70% -2.24% +40.86%

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 7,296 5,937 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.09% 22.34% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,887 3,773 5,640
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 77 183
10th Percentile £34.60 £26.25 £25.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.80 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 30 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 January 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 -3 83 £525 -4.55% 17
North of England -24 42 £500 -16.49% 10
Yorkshire -34 24 £525 -12.32% 4
West Midlands -25 22 £659 -9.10% 4
Midlands -39 22 £659 -9.10% 7
North West -5 17 £420 - 6
South West -7 14 £700 +14.29% 3
South East -34 10 £425 -32.54% 10
East of England - 1 - -
North East - 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 (8.98%) Confluence
2 9 (5.39%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.20%) SAS
5 2 (1.20%) Traefik
6 1 (0.60%) CMS
6 1 (0.60%) IIS
6 1 (0.60%) nginx
6 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (49.10%) Azure
2 39 (23.35%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (21.56%) GitHub
4 29 (17.37%) AWS
5 19 (11.38%) Entra ID
6 16 (9.58%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.58%) PaaS
6 16 (9.58%) SaaS
7 15 (8.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (8.38%) Datadog
8 14 (8.38%) GCP
9 13 (7.78%) IaaS
9 13 (7.78%) OpenShift
10 12 (7.19%) Serverless
11 11 (6.59%) Azure Service Fabric
12 10 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (5.99%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (5.99%) Power Platform
13 9 (5.39%) Azure AKS
14 8 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.19%) Firewall
2 6 (3.59%) VPN
3 5 (2.99%) DNS
4 3 (1.80%) DHCP
4 3 (1.80%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.20%) Calico
5 2 (1.20%) HTTP
5 2 (1.20%) LAN
5 2 (1.20%) WAN
6 1 (0.60%) BGP
6 1 (0.60%) IPsec
6 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.60%) VLAN
6 1 (0.60%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (6.59%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.99%) Metadata
3 10 (5.99%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.39%) Power BI
5 7 (4.19%) Delta Lake
5 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.19%) Redis
6 6 (3.59%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.99%) Big Data
7 5 (2.99%) Spark SQL
7 5 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.80%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.80%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (22.16%) Jenkins
2 29 (17.37%) SonarQube
3 28 (16.77%) GitLab
4 24 (14.37%) Git
5 20 (11.98%) JIRA
6 9 (5.39%) JUnit
7 8 (4.79%) Cypress.io
7 8 (4.79%) Maven
8 7 (4.19%) Postman
9 6 (3.59%) CircleCI
9 6 (3.59%) Selenium
10 5 (2.99%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.99%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.99%) Gradle
10 5 (2.99%) Snyk
10 5 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.99%) webpack
11 4 (2.40%) Mockito
12 3 (1.80%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (15.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.78%) Finance
4 11 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.59%) Banking
7 1 (0.60%) Law
7 1 (0.60%) Publishing
7 1 (0.60%) Retail
7 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (22.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (17.96%) Developer
3 21 (12.57%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (10.78%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.98%) Senior
6 13 (7.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (7.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 11 (6.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Lead
11 8 (4.79%) Architect
11 8 (4.79%) Cloud Specialist
12 7 (4.19%) Azure Data Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) Administrator
13 6 (3.59%) Salesforce Developer
14 5 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
14 5 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
14 5 (2.99%) Support Engineer
15 4 (2.40%) Platform Engineer
15 4 (2.40%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (19.16%) Node.js
2 25 (14.97%) JSON
3 19 (11.38%) GraphQL
3 19 (11.38%) Playwright
3 19 (11.38%) Vitest
4 16 (9.58%) RESTful
5 15 (8.98%) ARM Templates
6 14 (8.38%) .NET
7 13 (7.78%) Entity Framework
8 11 (6.59%) PySpark
8 11 (6.59%) XML
9 10 (5.99%) REST
10 9 (5.39%) Kafka
10 9 (5.39%) Swagger
11 8 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.79%) OpenAPI
11 8 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (4.19%) SailPoint
13 6 (3.59%) Jest
13 6 (3.59%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.39%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.99%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.40%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.20%) NHS
6 2 (1.20%) PACS
6 2 (1.20%) STIX
6 2 (1.20%) YARA
7 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.60%) Replication
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.36%) Linux
2 9 (5.39%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.79%) CentOS
3 8 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.79%) Windows
4 4 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.80%) VMS
6 2 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (82.04%) CI/CD
2 125 (74.85%) DevOps
3 72 (43.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (38.32%) Agile
5 45 (26.95%) Containerisation
6 36 (21.56%) Mentoring
7 34 (20.36%) Test Automation
8 33 (19.76%) Software Engineering
9 28 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (15.57%) DevSecOps
12 23 (13.77%) RBAC
13 22 (13.17%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (11.38%) Coaching
15 19 (11.38%) Data Engineering
16 17 (10.18%) API Design
16 17 (10.18%) ITSM
17 16 (9.58%) E-Commerce
18 15 (8.98%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (37.13%) Python
2 50 (29.94%) SQL
3 23 (13.77%) TypeScript
4 22 (13.17%) Java
5 17 (10.18%) PowerShell
6 13 (7.78%) Bash
7 12 (7.19%) C#
8 11 (6.59%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.79%) Bicep
9 8 (4.79%) Perl
9 8 (4.79%) Ruby
10 5 (2.99%) R
10 5 (2.99%) Scala
11 4 (2.40%) Apex Code
11 4 (2.40%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.40%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.80%) Groovy
12 3 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.80%) PHP
12 3 (1.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (31.74%) Security Cleared
2 43 (25.75%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.98%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.79%) RHCE
5 6 (3.59%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.59%) Degree
6 2 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.20%) CISSP
6 2 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) GCFA
6 2 (1.20%) GCIA
6 2 (1.20%) GCIH
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) NCSC
2 9 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.59%) QA
4 3 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (1.80%) GDPR
5 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.20%) NIST
5 2 (1.20%) WCAG
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 68 (40.72%) Docker
2 16 (9.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) HDFS
3 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.20%) Xen
4 1 (0.60%) etcd
4 1 (0.60%) KVM
4 1 (0.60%) Squid
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (31.74%) Kubernetes
2 50 (29.94%) Terraform
3 38 (22.75%) Ansible
4 22 (13.17%) Grafana
5 18 (10.78%) Prometheus
6 14 (8.38%) Puppet
7 8 (4.79%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.79%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (3.59%) Podman
10 5 (2.99%) Packer
11 2 (1.20%) Argo
11 2 (1.20%) Istio
12 1 (0.60%) Control-M
12 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.60%) Kibana
12 1 (0.60%) logstash
12 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (16.77%) Red Hat
2 24 (14.37%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.98%) Databricks
4 13 (7.78%) Salesforce
5 11 (6.59%) Splunk
6 8 (4.79%) Veracode
7 5 (2.99%) Oracle
8 3 (1.80%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.80%) Sonatype
9 2 (1.20%) Google
9 2 (1.20%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.60%) AlgoSec
10 1 (0.60%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.60%) Juniper
10 1 (0.60%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.60%) NetApp
10 1 (0.60%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.60%) Talend
10 1 (0.60%) VMware