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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 309 309
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +193
Contract jobs citing YAML 52 70 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.42% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 1.56% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 44 121
10th Percentile £350 £493 £458
25th Percentile £419 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% +11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £675
90th Percentile £677 £689 £700
England median daily rate £478 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -20.42% +4.35% -

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 3,555 4,483 6,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.20% 27.16% 25.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,490 3,247 4,773
10th Percentile £375 £376 £405
25th Percentile £428 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 40
10th Percentile £31.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £43.94
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -43.18% +30.37%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.50 £71.80 £83.36
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £61.25
% change year-on-year -2.22% -8.16% +10.36%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -4 5 £660 +10.00% 3
West London -10 1 - -
South London - 1 £495 -
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 10 (19.23%) Apache
2 8 (15.38%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.69%) Jupyter
4 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (88.46%) Azure
2 26 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (28.85%) Azure Monitor
4 11 (21.15%) Azure AKS
4 11 (21.15%) Azure Service Bus
4 11 (21.15%) Power Platform
5 8 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (15.38%) Serverless
6 7 (13.46%) Azure API Management
6 7 (13.46%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (13.46%) GCP
7 6 (11.54%) AWS
7 6 (11.54%) Azure Functions
7 6 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (9.62%) Azure Event Grid
8 5 (9.62%) Azure Storage
8 5 (9.62%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) Network Security
2 5 (9.62%) DNS
3 4 (7.69%) HTTP
3 4 (7.69%) SSH
4 3 (5.77%) Firewall
4 3 (5.77%) FTP
4 3 (5.77%) SMTP
4 3 (5.77%) SSL
4 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.85%) DHCP
5 2 (3.85%) VPN
6 1 (1.92%) BGP
6 1 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.92%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) Power BI
2 9 (17.31%) Delta Lake
3 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 7 (13.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (11.54%) Apache Hive
6 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.85%) Big Data
7 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.85%) Redis
8 1 (1.92%) MySQL
8 1 (1.92%) Parquet
8 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Git
2 9 (17.31%) JIRA
3 4 (7.69%) RStudio
4 3 (5.77%) GitLab
5 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.85%) Postman
5 2 (3.85%) Selenium
6 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.92%) JMeter
6 1 (1.92%) JUnit
6 1 (1.92%) Locust
6 1 (1.92%) Mocha
6 1 (1.92%) MSTest
6 1 (1.92%) NUnit
6 1 (1.92%) Ranorex
6 1 (1.92%) Robot Framework
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.54%) Law
5 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Lead
6 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Site Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Consultant
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Security Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Software Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Specialist
8 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes Architect
8 1 (1.92%) Senior
8 1 (1.92%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.92%) JSON
2 11 (21.15%) ARM Templates
3 8 (15.38%) .NET
3 8 (15.38%) PySpark
4 6 (11.54%) ADO
4 6 (11.54%) pydantic
5 4 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 4 (7.69%) REST
6 3 (5.77%) Celery
6 3 (5.77%) OpenAPI
6 3 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (5.77%) SOAP
6 3 (5.77%) Swagger
6 3 (5.77%) XML
7 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.85%) Node.js
7 2 (3.85%) OAuth
7 2 (3.85%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.85%) OpenID
7 2 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Data Structures
1 6 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (9.62%) Reference Data
3 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.77%) Legacy Code
4 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) STIX
5 1 (1.92%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.85%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Unix
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) CentOS
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) DevOps
2 32 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 25 (48.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (28.85%) Agile
4 15 (28.85%) Analytics
5 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 11 (21.15%) DevSecOps
7 11 (21.15%) Log Analytics
8 9 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (15.38%) API Management
9 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (15.38%) Microservices
9 8 (15.38%) Observability
9 8 (15.38%) Scrum
10 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (11.54%) Data Ingestion
11 6 (11.54%) GitOps
11 6 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (67.31%) Python
2 18 (34.62%) Bash
2 18 (34.62%) PowerShell
3 15 (28.85%) Bicep
4 14 (26.92%) SQL
5 10 (19.23%) C#
6 6 (11.54%) Scala
7 5 (9.62%) JavaScript
8 4 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (3.85%) Java
10 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.92%) CISSP
3 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (1.92%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) GCFA
3 1 (1.92%) GCIA
3 1 (1.92%) GCIH
3 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
2 5 (9.62%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.92%) iptables
Systems Management
1 23 (44.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (28.85%) Terraform
3 12 (23.08%) Ansible
4 8 (15.38%) Grafana
5 7 (13.46%) Puppet
6 4 (7.69%) Progress Chef
6 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.69%) Salt
7 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.92%) Argo
7 1 (1.92%) Packer
7 1 (1.92%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) Databricks
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Splunk
4 2 (3.85%) Google
4 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco
5 1 (1.92%) Citrix
5 1 (1.92%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.92%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.92%) Virgin Media