YAML Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

YAML
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring YAML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 115 146
Rank change year-on-year -18 +31 +53
Contract jobs citing YAML 18 23 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.67% 0.85% 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.38% 4.78% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 0
10th Percentile £481 £570 -
25th Percentile £547 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £585 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.65% - -
75th Percentile £700 £612 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 533 481 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.82% 17.72% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 302 365
10th Percentile £308 £325 £313
25th Percentile £380 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £562 £612 £570
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 5
10th Percentile £27.88 £22.40 £17.28
25th Percentile £33.91 £34.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% +116.12%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £56.00
90th Percentile - £71.00 £61.40
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £58.59
% change year-on-year -13.19% +8.13% -9.86%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the Midlands

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing YAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing YAML

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the Midlands

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
West Midlands -21 16 £700 +19.66% 1
East Midlands - 2 £488 -
YAML
England

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) GitHub
2 15 (83.33%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) AWS
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
6 3 (16.67%) Datadog
6 3 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (16.67%) npm
6 3 (16.67%) Pulumi
7 2 (11.11%) IaaS
7 2 (11.11%) PaaS
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
8 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) SonarQube
2 5 (27.78%) Git
3 3 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 3 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 3 (16.67%) CircleCI
3 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 3 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (16.67%) Gradle
3 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) JUnit
3 3 (16.67%) Maven
3 3 (16.67%) Postman
3 3 (16.67%) Selenium
3 3 (16.67%) Snyk
3 3 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (16.67%) webpack
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.56%) Finance
1 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (16.67%) JSON
1 3 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) ADO
3 1 (5.56%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) DevOps
1 16 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 14 (77.78%) Containerisation
4 12 (66.67%) DevSecOps
5 11 (61.11%) Test Automation
6 9 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (44.44%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (33.33%) Agile
9 4 (22.22%) SDLC
9 4 (22.22%) Task Automation
10 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
10 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (16.67%) Software Delivery
10 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (11.11%) RBAC
11 2 (11.11%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bash
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) Go
2 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (94.44%) Terraform
2 15 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (27.78%) Ansible
4 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 3 (16.67%) Grafana
5 3 (16.67%) Podman
5 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
5 3 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow