YAML Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

YAML
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -55 - -
Contract jobs citing YAML 1 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.14% 2.24% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 14.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £599 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate - £599 £430
% change year-on-year - +39.24% -28.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 200 49 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 28.37% 15.71% 27.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 35 77
10th Percentile £358 £461 £389
25th Percentile £411 £517 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +17.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £600
90th Percentile £675 £714 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £588 £485
% change year-on-year -18.30% +21.13% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Sheffield

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing YAML

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk