YAML Contracts in the South East

YAML
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 142 191 190
Rank change year-on-year +49 -1 +63
Contract jobs citing YAML 17 14 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.25% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.40% 1.92% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 21
10th Percentile £464 £338 £500
25th Percentile £500 £377 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -20.83% +2.13%
75th Percentile £669 £584 £750
90th Percentile £675 £610 -
England median daily rate £523 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -12.92% +7.14% +0.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 500 730 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 13.13% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 462 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £411 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £661 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in the South East.

Daily rate trend for YAML in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for YAML in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the South East 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
Thames Valley +41 8 £625 +38.89% 5
Berkshire +32 8 £625 +56.25% 3
Surrey +21 5 £425 -22.73% 2
Hampshire +27 2 £478 - 3
East Sussex - 2 £563 - 3
YAML
England

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
3 4 (23.53%) SaaS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure API Management
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Stack
5 2 (11.76%) IaaS
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.76%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) BGP
1 3 (17.65%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (11.76%) IPv6
2 2 (11.76%) OSPF
2 2 (11.76%) SAN
2 2 (11.76%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (11.76%) TACACS
2 2 (11.76%) VSAN
3 1 (5.88%) MPLS
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
1 3 (17.65%) SSDT
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) Cypress.io
2 4 (23.53%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (17.65%) GitLab
4 2 (11.76%) Moq
4 2 (11.76%) Selenium
4 2 (11.76%) SpecFlow
4 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Electronics
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
1 4 (23.53%) CSS
1 4 (23.53%) HTML
1 4 (23.53%) RESTful
2 3 (17.65%) JSON
2 3 (17.65%) OAuth
2 3 (17.65%) XML
3 2 (11.76%) .NET
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
3 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
3 2 (11.76%) Bootstrap
3 2 (11.76%) React
3 2 (11.76%) Vue
4 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
4 1 (5.88%) NETCONF
4 1 (5.88%) PySpark
4 1 (5.88%) RESTCONF
4 1 (5.88%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) CentOS
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) DevOps
2 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Scrum
4 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Insurtech
6 4 (23.53%) OO
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Product Backlog
6 4 (23.53%) Progressive Web App
6 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (23.53%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (23.53%) Technical Debt
6 4 (23.53%) User Experience
6 4 (23.53%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) C#
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Ceph
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (11.76%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Argo
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (11.76%) SCCM
5 1 (5.88%) Grafana
5 1 (5.88%) Packer
5 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) UiPath
3 2 (11.76%) Dell
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk