YAML Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

YAML
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing YAML 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 3.13% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £418 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - -
75th Percentile £453 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £435 £570 £613
% change year-on-year -23.68% -6.94% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20 19 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 10.42% 14.07% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 21
10th Percentile £413 £353 -
25th Percentile £417 £394 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -9.52% +5.93%
75th Percentile £453 £589 £613
90th Percentile £522 £650 £706
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -10.79% +1.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 12
10th Percentile - £59.80 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +1.92% -
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £66.25 £61.25
% change year-on-year -28.30% +8.16% -5.77%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing YAML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

YAML job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing YAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing YAML

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
1 5 (83.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (83.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (83.33%) Kafka
1 5 (83.33%) Keycloak
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) ZeroMQ
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Immutable Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
2 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 5 (83.33%) Grafana
2 5 (83.33%) Packer
2 5 (83.33%) Prometheus
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (83.33%) Splunk