YAML Contract Job Trends in South London

YAML
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 36 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing YAML 6 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.08% 0.48% 2.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.41% 1.96% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £492 - £385
25th Percentile £499 £493 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £495 £510
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% -2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £576 £498 £538
90th Percentile £581 - £553
London median daily rate £525 £550 £620
% change year-on-year -4.55% -11.29% -4.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 81 51 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 28.03% 24.29% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 37 43
10th Percentile £463 £380 £400
25th Percentile £500 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +2.23% -2.18%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £638
90th Percentile £596 £693 £660
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.08
Median hourly rate - - £38.16
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.66%
75th Percentile - - £39.23
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

YAML job vacancy trend in South London

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing YAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing YAML

YAML
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
Croydon -4 6 £541 +9.27% 2
YAML
London

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Service Fabric
1 6 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (100.00%) PaaS
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 6 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 6 (100.00%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) B2C
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 6 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft