YAML Contracts in London

YAML
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for YAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited YAML over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 256 487
Rank change year-on-year -64 +231 -121
Contract jobs citing YAML 74 263 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.97% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 3.54% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 191 94
10th Percentile £510 £458 £450
25th Percentile £563 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £689
90th Percentile £704 £800 £750
England median daily rate £600 £555 £563
% change year-on-year +8.11% -1.33% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

YAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,425 7,424 12,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.99% 27.42% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 5,530 9,406
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £457 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £821 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £29.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.84 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -44.18% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.80 £76.63 £79.65
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in London

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in London.

Daily rate trend for YAML in London

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in London

YAML
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London +16 7 £600 +6.67% 1
South London +15 5 £538 +13.26% 1
YAML
England

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 47 (63.51%) Azure
2 35 (47.30%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (33.78%) Azure Service Bus
4 19 (25.68%) AWS
5 13 (17.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (17.57%) Azure API Management
6 11 (14.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 11 (14.86%) NuGet
6 11 (14.86%) Serverless
7 10 (13.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (10.81%) Azure AKS
8 8 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (10.81%) GitHub
9 7 (9.46%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (9.46%) PaaS
10 5 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (5.41%) IaaS
12 3 (4.05%) GCP
12 3 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) Firewall
2 5 (6.76%) DNS
2 5 (6.76%) SNA
2 5 (6.76%) VSAN
3 3 (4.05%) HTTP
4 2 (2.70%) VPN
5 1 (1.35%) FTP
5 1 (1.35%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.35%) Internet
5 1 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.35%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.35%) Network Security
5 1 (1.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.35%) SNMP
5 1 (1.35%) SSL
5 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.57%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (12.16%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.76%) Parquet
4 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.05%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.70%) Big Data
6 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.70%) MySQL
6 2 (2.70%) Power BI
7 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.35%) Bigtable
7 1 (1.35%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (45.95%) Git
2 8 (10.81%) GitLab
3 5 (6.76%) Artifactory
4 4 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.05%) Gradle
5 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.70%) JIRA
6 2 (2.70%) Maven
7 1 (1.35%) ERwin
7 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.35%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (29.73%) Finance
2 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.46%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.05%) Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Marketing
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Electronics
8 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (20.27%) Azure Engineer
2 15 (20.27%) Developer
3 10 (13.51%) Lead
4 9 (12.16%) Senior
5 8 (10.81%) Data Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Architect
6 7 (9.46%) Azure Developer
7 6 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) .NET Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Agile Development Manager
8 5 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Data Architect
8 5 (6.76%) Development Manager
8 5 (6.76%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Security Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.08%) .NET
2 18 (24.32%) .NET Core
3 17 (22.97%) JSON
4 15 (20.27%) REST
5 11 (14.86%) GraphQL
6 8 (10.81%) SOAP
7 6 (8.11%) Node.js
7 6 (8.11%) WebSockets
8 5 (6.76%) Swagger
9 4 (5.41%) Apache Avro
9 4 (5.41%) HTML
9 4 (5.41%) HTML5
9 4 (5.41%) JSON Schema
9 4 (5.41%) React
9 4 (5.41%) SignalR
10 3 (4.05%) .NET Framework
10 3 (4.05%) ADO
10 3 (4.05%) Spring
10 3 (4.05%) Spring Boot
10 3 (4.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.76%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.05%) Wiki
6 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.70%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) DataPower
7 1 (1.35%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.35%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Linux
2 6 (8.11%) Windows
3 5 (6.76%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (70.27%) DevOps
2 38 (51.35%) CI/CD
3 32 (43.24%) Agile
4 22 (29.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (27.03%) API Management
6 18 (24.32%) TDD
7 15 (20.27%) OO
8 14 (18.92%) SDLC
9 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
10 12 (16.22%) Analytics
10 12 (16.22%) Microservices
11 11 (14.86%) Scrum
12 9 (12.16%) Clean Code
13 8 (10.81%) Data Integration
13 8 (10.81%) Decision-Making
13 8 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
13 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (10.81%) Line Management
13 8 (10.81%) OOD
13 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.30%) Python
2 29 (39.19%) SQL
3 25 (33.78%) C#
3 25 (33.78%) PowerShell
4 16 (21.62%) Bicep
5 7 (9.46%) Java
6 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.76%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.41%) Bash
9 1 (1.35%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) Degree
3 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) CCNP
5 1 (1.35%) CEH
5 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.35%) CISSP
5 1 (1.35%) GCIA
5 1 (1.35%) GCIH
5 1 (1.35%) GIAC
5 1 (1.35%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.86%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Active Directory
1 10 (13.51%) Docker
2 5 (6.76%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (6.76%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (43.24%) Terraform
2 18 (24.32%) Kubernetes
3 12 (16.22%) Ansible
4 5 (6.76%) vCenter Server
4 5 (6.76%) vRealize
5 2 (2.70%) Grafana
6 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.35%) Argo
6 1 (1.35%) Istio
6 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.35%) Puppet
6 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.76%) Oracle
2 5 (6.76%) VMware
3 4 (5.41%) Black Duck
3 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.70%) Databricks
5 2 (2.70%) Google
5 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.70%) Talend
6 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.35%) BigPanda
6 1 (1.35%) Dell
6 1 (1.35%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.35%) Sage
6 1 (1.35%) SAP
6 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds