YAML Contracts in the Thames Valley

YAML
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 120 165
Rank change year-on-year -10 +45 -46
Contract jobs citing YAML 10 26 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.37% 0.89% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.62% 5.24% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 3
10th Percentile £330 £463 -
25th Percentile £338 £500 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -2.13% +39.88%
75th Percentile £610 £717 £606
90th Percentile £622 £750 -
South East median daily rate £475 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -20.83% +2.13% +30.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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 382 496 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.14% 16.93% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 354 440
10th Percentile £325 £366 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.29% +14.06%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £588
90th Percentile £674 £693 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 5
10th Percentile £56.58 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +69.03%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +8.43%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for YAML in the Thames Valley

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Berkshire -31 7 £400 -30.43%
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £590 -
YAML
South East

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) NuGet
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SNA
1 3 (30.00%) VSAN
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) Artifactory
2 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (10.00%) Advertising
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Junior
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) GitOps
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) API Management
6 1 (10.00%) Change Advisory Board
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Log Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Open Source
6 1 (10.00%) RBAC
6 1 (10.00%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (30.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Grafana
2 4 (40.00%) Istio
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 3 (30.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (30.00%) vRealize
4 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) BMC
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow