YAML Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

YAML
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 52 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -
Contract jobs citing YAML 10 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 2.75% 0.25% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.49% 1.12% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £594 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.08% -
75th Percentile £813 £631 -
90th Percentile £850 - -
South West median daily rate £700 £582 £613
% change year-on-year +20.27% -4.98% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £87.60
South West median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 69 89 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.96% 22.25% 22.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 44 65
10th Percentile £406 £491 £345
25th Percentile £463 £533 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £619 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +12.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £691 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £734 £760
South West median daily rate £545 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -0.91% +7.32% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +43.68% -48.72%
75th Percentile £68.50 - £62.50
90th Percentile £69.40 - £78.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -7.14% +34.11% -19.70%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing YAML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

YAML job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing YAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing YAML

YAML
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing YAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing YAML

YAML
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 10 November 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
Gloucester - 10 £700 -
YAML
South West

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform