YAML Contract Job Trends in the South West

YAML
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 122 126
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +52
Contract jobs citing YAML 12 16 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.56% 0.67% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.59% 3.72% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 17
10th Percentile - £553 £515
25th Percentile - £570 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £582 £613
Median % change year-on-year +20.27% -4.98% -2.00%
75th Percentile £775 £585 £675
90th Percentile £850 £599 £693
England median daily rate £501 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -14.32% -2.50% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £87.60
England median hourly rate £105.00 £58.75 £78.00
% change year-on-year +78.72% -24.68% +40.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 334 430 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.57% 18.07% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 245 402
10th Percentile £318 £389 £325
25th Percentile £413 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +7.32% -4.04%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £643
90th Percentile £695 £701 £715
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 29 48
10th Percentile £61.25 £64.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - £66.25 £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +34.11% -19.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

YAML job vacancy trend in the South West

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing YAML

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the South West over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the South West

YAML
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing YAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing YAML

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 November 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
Gloucestershire +7 10 £700 +14.29% 1
Bristol -1 1 £58 -
Somerset - 1 - - 2
YAML
England

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) CMake
3 1 (8.33%) GoogleTest
General
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 1 (8.33%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) CUDA
1 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Raspberry Pi
1 1 (8.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (91.67%) DevSecOps
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 10 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (83.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Generative AI
5 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 1 (8.33%) OO
5 1 (8.33%) OOD
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Sensor Fusion
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) C++
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (91.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (83.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) NVIDIA