YAML Contracts in the South East

YAML
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for YAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited YAML over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 185 243
Rank change year-on-year 0 +58 -60
Contract jobs citing YAML 13 34 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.60% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.86% 3.31% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 6
10th Percentile £338 £500 £436
25th Percentile £364 £523 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £601 £581
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +3.31% +29.17%
75th Percentile £556 £750 £605
90th Percentile £610 - £606
England median daily rate £600 £569 £550
% change year-on-year +5.49% +3.41% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +41.82% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

YAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 700 1,026 1,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.68% 18.09% 19.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 730 1,002
10th Percentile £313 £363 £357
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £612
90th Percentile £653 £707 £675
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 38 38
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.25 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.50 £53.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.50 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +64.51% -12.87%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.75 £79.51 £65.51
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +12.22%

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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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 -19 9 £438 -27.20% 3
Berkshire -33 7 £400 -33.44% 1
West Sussex - 2 £475 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £618 - 1
Surrey +13 1 £550 -9.28%
Hampshire +1 1 - - 5
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England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) NuGet
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) SNA
2 2 (15.38%) VSAN
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Artifactory
1 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Advertising
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Junior
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Swagger
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) GitOps
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) High Availability
4 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (15.38%) RBAC
5 2 (15.38%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
1 4 (30.77%) VMware NSX
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (15.38%) Ceph
3 2 (15.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
3 4 (30.77%) Grafana
3 4 (30.77%) Istio
4 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
5 2 (15.38%) Pacemaker
5 2 (15.38%) Podman
5 2 (15.38%) vCenter Server
5 2 (15.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) Sun
5 1 (7.69%) BMC
5 1 (7.69%) Databricks
5 1 (7.69%) Remedy
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow