YAML Contract Job Trends in the North West

YAML
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring YAML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 116 137
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 +35
Contract jobs citing YAML 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.084% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.83% 0.54% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £404 £406 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -41.07% +33.33%
75th Percentile £494 £419 £725
90th Percentile £520 - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £576
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.17% -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 480 368 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.98% 15.39% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 244 439
10th Percentile £316 £330 £363
25th Percentile £375 £398 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £528 £576 £625
90th Percentile £649 £796 £675
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 28
10th Percentile £27.60 £40.07 £45.88
25th Percentile £30.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £88.75 £71.50 £53.44
90th Percentile £93.85 £73.30 £67.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the North West

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing YAML

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the North West over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the North West

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Manchester +3 2 £442 -
Cheshire - 1 - - 3
Merseyside - 1 £450 -
YAML
England

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Integration Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Control-M
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle