YAML Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

YAML
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 38 44
Rank change year-on-year -45 +6 +16
Contract jobs citing YAML 9 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.15% 1.31% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.91% 9.52% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £487 £491 £411
25th Percentile £500 £549 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £599 £430
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% +39.24% -28.33%
75th Percentile £537 £623 -
90th Percentile £538 - £439
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £599 £430
% change year-on-year -12.32% +39.24% -18.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 230 42 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.37% 13.77% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 31 80
10th Percentile £356 £455 £390
25th Percentile £412 £500 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £588 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +23.68% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
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 - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £96.21 £24.64
% change year-on-year -41.27% +290.45% -64.80%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

YAML job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

YAML
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Sheffield -41 9 £525 -12.32% 10
YAML
Yorkshire

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Apigee
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) Kong
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) CentOS
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) RBAC
3 7 (77.78%) ITSM
4 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 4 (44.44%) Migration
5 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (22.22%) Use Case
8 1 (11.11%) Blue-Green Deployment
8 1 (11.11%) Canary Deployment
8 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
8 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 1 (11.11%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Perl
2 3 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Kibana
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) logstash
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk