YAML Contracts in Reading

YAML
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 87 65
Rank change year-on-year +28 -22 +28
Contract jobs citing YAML 3 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.55% 0.68% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 3.92% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 12
10th Percentile - £401 £614
25th Percentile £625 £438 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% +19.15%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £750
90th Percentile - £644 -
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £450 £638
% change year-on-year +44.44% -29.41% +8.51%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 123 204 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.53% 17.35% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 138 157
10th Percentile £350 £325 £400
25th Percentile £409 £431 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £54.75 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year -11.12% -21.78% +28.05%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in Reading

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in Reading.

Daily rate trend for YAML in Reading

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SSDT
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) B2B
1 3 (100.00%) B2C
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Release Management
1 3 (100.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) UiPath