YAML Contract Job Trends in Scotland

YAML
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 116 110
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 +36
Contract jobs citing YAML 8 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.35% 0.13% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.65% 0.44% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £606 - £503
90th Percentile £678 - £519
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £579
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.57% +3.30%

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 486 452 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.22% 28.34% 20.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 272 259
10th Percentile £320 £358 £360
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% +3.89% -1.04%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £567
90th Percentile £638 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £36.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Scotland

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing YAML

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 September 2026. 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
Glasgow - 5 £700 - 3
Edinburgh -2 3 £463 -7.50% 2
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Collibra
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Algolia
4 1 (12.50%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) ChatGPT
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Power Query
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modeller
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) FastAPI
2 3 (37.50%) pydantic
2 3 (37.50%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) Laravel
4 1 (12.50%) Open Graph
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) AI
2 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Information Management
4 2 (25.00%) Metadata Management
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) MiFID
2 1 (12.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) WooCommerce