YAML Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

YAML
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 74 91
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 +25
Contract jobs citing YAML 9 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.67% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.16% 1.09% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £601
25th Percentile £418 - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £570 £613
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% -6.94% +2.08%
75th Percentile £453 - £628
90th Percentile - - £634
South East median daily rate £435 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -30.40% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 146 92 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 10.87% 10.26% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 52 79
10th Percentile £363 £387 £436
25th Percentile £414 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +0.09% -
75th Percentile £603 £628 £613
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 17
10th Percentile £40.63 £58.04 £53.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.81 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £49.88 £65.63 £73.20
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% -

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Hampshire

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing YAML

YAML
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing YAML

YAML
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Portsmouth - 9 £435 - 2
YAML
South East

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 6 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) JSON
1 6 (66.67%) XML
2 3 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) Keycloak
3 1 (11.11%) ZeroMQ
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Immutable Infrastructure
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Observability
3 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) Packer
2 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk