YAML Contract Job Trends in Leeds

YAML
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing YAML 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.74% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £700 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 278 194 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 25.67% 33.05% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 119 187
10th Percentile £400 £375 £381
25th Percentile £426 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £587
90th Percentile £629 £675 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £13.87
75th Percentile - - £15.52
90th Percentile - - £16.50
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - £13.87
% change year-on-year - - -48.21%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Leeds

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing YAML

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
3 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (62.50%) GitHub
4 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (62.50%) Power Automate
4 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (62.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
5 1 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (12.50%) OCI
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) AI
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (62.50%) Agile
4 5 (62.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (62.50%) Observability
4 5 (62.50%) Zero Trust
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) High Availability
6 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
6 1 (12.50%) Information Security
6 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Java
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Jamf Pro
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Google
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype