yum Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring yum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing yum 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.046% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £540
% change year-on-year +12.50% -25.93% -16.92%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

yum falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 291 229 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.31% 13.56% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 156 171
10th Percentile £250 £200 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £491 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +9.06% -7.69%
75th Percentile £571 £550 £539
90th Percentile £650 £589 £634
UK median daily rate £515 £510 £515
% change year-on-year +0.98% -0.97% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile £13.50 £52.50 £17.37
Median hourly rate £24.25 £55.00 £20.08
Median % change year-on-year -55.91% +173.97% -49.29%
75th Percentile £35.00 £57.50 £22.35
90th Percentile - - £23.45
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% -7.69% -43.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

yum job vacancy trend in Scotland

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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 yum within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 July 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
Edinburgh - 1 £450 - 3
yum
UK

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat