YAML Contracts in Scotland

YAML
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 126 155
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 +5
Contract jobs citing YAML 3 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.14% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 0.64% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £563 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +43.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £425
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £512 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.75% +9.09% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in Scotland

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in Scotland

YAML
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh - 3 £525 -
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Power Query
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) MSTest
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Ranorex
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
3 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (66.67%) Low-Code
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) ETRM
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft