YAML Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

YAML
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 114 129
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 +28
Contract jobs citing YAML 4 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.50% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 2.78% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 14
10th Percentile £405 - £432
25th Percentile £413 £588 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £623
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +0.40% +29.69%
75th Percentile £450 £663 £675
90th Percentile £465 £667 £684
South East median daily rate £435 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -30.40% +2.04% +6.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 354 360 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.02% 18.01% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 244 216
10th Percentile £363 £375 £310
25th Percentile £413 £419 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £558 £503
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +10.95% -8.64%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £639 £671 £675
South East median daily rate £481 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile - £32.14 £40.05
25th Percentile - £38.72 £53.42
Median hourly rate £81.00 £50.87 £63.03
Median % change year-on-year +59.22% -19.29% +41.24%
75th Percentile £81.25 £63.46 £90.25
90th Percentile £81.70 £70.31 -
South East median hourly rate £48.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% - -2.09%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

YAML job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing YAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing YAML

YAML
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 18 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
Berkshire -15 4 £425 -32.00% 1
YAML
South East

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DataOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (25.00%) Fastify
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) OpenID
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) DataOps
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) FinOps
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Blocking Code
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk