YAML Contracts in London

YAML
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring YAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YAML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 316 255
Rank change year-on-year +6 -61 +223
Contract jobs citing YAML 43 75 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.42% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.31% 1.68% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 58 192
10th Percentile £351 £510 £458
25th Percentile £440 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.96% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £578 £675 £700
90th Percentile £641 £704 £800
England median daily rate £523 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -12.92% +7.14% +0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.25 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 - £75.50
% change year-on-year - - +37.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in London

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Central London +5 8 £640 +6.71% 1
West London - 3 £475 - 3
South London +3 1 £495 -7.99% 3
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 12 (27.91%) Apache Spark
2 9 (20.93%) Apache
3 6 (13.95%) Jupyter
4 5 (11.63%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (86.05%) Azure
2 18 (41.86%) Power Platform
3 17 (39.53%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (20.93%) Azure AKS
5 7 (16.28%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (16.28%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (16.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (16.28%) GitHub
6 6 (13.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (13.95%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (11.63%) Azure Functions
7 5 (11.63%) Copilot Studio
7 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (11.63%) PowerApps
7 5 (11.63%) Serverless
8 4 (9.30%) Azure Event Grid
8 4 (9.30%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (6.98%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (4.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) SSH
2 3 (6.98%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) FTP
2 3 (6.98%) HTTP
2 3 (6.98%) SMTP
2 3 (6.98%) SSL
2 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.65%) BGP
3 2 (4.65%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (4.65%) MPLS
3 2 (4.65%) Network Security
3 2 (4.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (41.86%) Power BI
2 9 (20.93%) Delta Lake
2 9 (20.93%) SQL Server
3 8 (18.60%) Apache Hive
3 8 (18.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Big Data
5 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.65%) Parquet
6 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.33%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Git
2 11 (25.58%) JIRA
3 6 (13.95%) RStudio
4 2 (4.65%) GitLab
4 2 (4.65%) Postman
4 2 (4.65%) Selenium
5 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.33%) JMeter
5 1 (2.33%) JUnit
5 1 (2.33%) Locust
5 1 (2.33%) MSTest
5 1 (2.33%) NUnit
5 1 (2.33%) Ranorex
5 1 (2.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.63%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (9.30%) Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Data Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Site Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Data Integration Architect
8 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Integration Consultant
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Developer
8 1 (2.33%) QA Leader
8 1 (2.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) JSON
2 11 (25.58%) .NET
3 9 (20.93%) PySpark
4 8 (18.60%) pydantic
5 5 (11.63%) ARM Templates
5 5 (11.63%) XML
6 4 (9.30%) .NET Framework
6 4 (9.30%) REST
6 4 (9.30%) SOAP
7 3 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (4.65%) Kafka
8 2 (4.65%) NETCONF
8 2 (4.65%) RESTCONF
8 2 (4.65%) YANG
9 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.33%) Bootstrap
9 1 (2.33%) pytest
9 1 (2.33%) React
9 1 (2.33%) Swagger
9 1 (2.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Data Structures
1 8 (18.60%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (16.28%) Reference Data
3 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (13.95%) Product Ownership
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.33%) Tandem
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.23%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) CentOS
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) DevOps
2 17 (39.53%) Agile
2 17 (39.53%) CI/CD
2 17 (39.53%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (34.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (30.23%) Scrum
5 10 (23.26%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (20.93%) Analytics
7 8 (18.60%) Data Ingestion
7 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
8 7 (16.28%) Data Security
8 7 (16.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
10 5 (11.63%) API Integration
10 5 (11.63%) Cloud Security
10 5 (11.63%) Critical Thinking
10 5 (11.63%) DevSecOps
10 5 (11.63%) Product Thinking
11 4 (9.30%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Python
2 22 (51.16%) SQL
3 17 (39.53%) PowerShell
4 12 (27.91%) Bash
4 12 (27.91%) C#
5 10 (23.26%) Bicep
6 8 (18.60%) Scala
7 4 (9.30%) Shell Script
8 3 (6.98%) Java
8 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
8 3 (6.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 13 (30.23%) Terraform
3 5 (11.63%) Ansible
4 4 (9.30%) Puppet
4 4 (9.30%) Salt
5 3 (6.98%) Grafana
6 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.33%) Argo
6 1 (2.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Databricks
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.63%) Cisco
4 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (6.98%) Planview
5 3 (6.98%) Sybase
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle
7 1 (2.33%) Darktrace
7 1 (2.33%) HP
7 1 (2.33%) IBM
7 1 (2.33%) Virgin Media