YAML Contracts in the UK excluding London

YAML
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 367 445
Rank change year-on-year +39 +78 -81
Contract jobs citing YAML 63 90 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.38% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 2.06% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 55 58
10th Percentile £393 £435 £425
25th Percentile £430 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +11.70%
75th Percentile £616 £744 £588
90th Percentile £644 £843 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £72.00 £52.75
25th Percentile - £74.25 £53.13
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.82% -
75th Percentile - £84.00 £56.88
90th Percentile - £87.60 £57.25
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +41.82% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,252 4,364 6,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 18.26% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 3,267 4,414
10th Percentile £324 £359 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 91 147
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the UK excluding London

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for YAML in the UK excluding London

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the UK excluding London

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for YAML in the UK excluding London

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
North of England +32 26 £499 -16.88% 6
Yorkshire - 22 £452 - 5
South East +3 14 £475 -20.83% 8
South West +27 13 £525 -27.59%
Scotland +36 4 £575 +43.75%
North West +13 4 £514 +2.75%
Midlands +24 3 £375 -21.05% 3
West Midlands +22 3 £375 -19.35% 3
East of England +9 3 £625 +47.06% 3
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (11.11%) Confluence
2 4 (6.35%) Apache Solr
2 4 (6.35%) nginx
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.59%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.03%) Azure
2 21 (33.33%) GitHub
3 15 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (22.22%) AWS
5 10 (15.87%) GCP
6 6 (9.52%) Apigee
6 6 (9.52%) Kong
7 4 (6.35%) OpenShift
7 4 (6.35%) PaaS
8 3 (4.76%) IaaS
9 2 (3.17%) Azure Storage
9 2 (3.17%) Serverless
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (1.59%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (1.59%) AWS CodeCommit
10 1 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (22.22%) DNS
2 12 (19.05%) Firewall
3 10 (15.87%) TCP/IP
4 9 (14.29%) VPN
5 6 (9.52%) HTTP
6 4 (6.35%) HTTPS
6 4 (6.35%) IPsec
7 3 (4.76%) SNA
7 3 (4.76%) VSAN
8 2 (3.17%) Modbus
9 1 (1.59%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.94%) MySQL
3 4 (6.35%) Couchbase
3 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.17%) Redis
4 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.59%) Parquet
5 1 (1.59%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 22 (34.92%) Jenkins
2 18 (28.57%) Git
3 12 (19.05%) JIRA
4 10 (15.87%) Artifactory
5 8 (12.70%) GitLab
6 6 (9.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (9.52%) CircleCI
6 6 (9.52%) SonarQube
6 6 (9.52%) Travis CI
7 4 (6.35%) Bitbucket
8 3 (4.76%) Subversion
9 2 (3.17%) CMake
9 2 (3.17%) Selenium
9 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.59%) NUnit
10 1 (1.59%) Postman
10 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Legal
3 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Finance
5 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Advertising
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.59%) Law
6 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (20.63%) Storage Manager
3 7 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Lead
6 3 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Verification Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.17%) Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Junior
7 2 (3.17%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (33.33%) JSON
2 7 (11.11%) XML
3 6 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.35%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.35%) REST
4 4 (6.35%) Swagger
5 3 (4.76%) .NET
6 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.17%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.17%) pytest
6 2 (3.17%) Yocto
7 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.59%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.59%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.59%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (1.59%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (1.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.76%) ASIC
5 3 (4.76%) FPGA
5 3 (4.76%) Verilog
6 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (46.03%) Linux
2 15 (23.81%) zOS
3 4 (6.35%) CentOS
4 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.76%) Unix
5 2 (3.17%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (3.17%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (55.56%) Agile
2 33 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 27 (42.86%) DevOps
4 24 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (31.75%) Project Management
6 17 (26.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (23.81%) Storage Management
8 14 (22.22%) Problem Management
8 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (20.63%) Software Testing
10 11 (17.46%) Scrum
11 10 (15.87%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (15.87%) Cost Management
11 10 (15.87%) Software Delivery
11 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
12 8 (12.70%) Containerisation
12 8 (12.70%) DevSecOps
13 7 (11.11%) API Development
13 7 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (52.38%) Python
2 21 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 15 (23.81%) Bash
3 15 (23.81%) JCL
3 15 (23.81%) REXX
4 6 (9.52%) C#
5 5 (7.94%) C
6 4 (6.35%) PHP
6 4 (6.35%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.76%) Assembly Language
7 3 (4.76%) C++
7 3 (4.76%) SystemVerilog
7 3 (4.76%) Tcl
8 2 (3.17%) Bicep
8 2 (3.17%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.59%) Java
9 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) QA
2 4 (6.35%) GDPR
2 4 (6.35%) HIPAA
2 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.35%) NIST
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (26.98%) Docker
2 15 (23.81%) NFS
2 15 (23.81%) Time Sharing Option
3 5 (7.94%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (7.94%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.17%) Ceph
5 2 (3.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.17%) vSphere
6 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.59%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (1.59%) Firmware
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (60.32%) Ansible
2 33 (52.38%) Terraform
3 16 (25.40%) Kubernetes
4 15 (23.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 12 (19.05%) Grafana
6 8 (12.70%) Prometheus
7 6 (9.52%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (9.52%) Kibana
7 6 (9.52%) logstash
7 6 (9.52%) Progress Chef
7 6 (9.52%) Puppet
8 4 (6.35%) Istio
9 3 (4.76%) vCenter Server
9 3 (4.76%) vRealize
10 2 (3.17%) Pacemaker
10 2 (3.17%) Podman
11 1 (1.59%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (23.81%) Broadcom
1 15 (23.81%) Brocade
1 15 (23.81%) CA
1 15 (23.81%) Dell
1 15 (23.81%) IBM
2 9 (14.29%) VMware
3 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.11%) Splunk
4 6 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.35%) Google
6 3 (4.76%) Cadence
6 3 (4.76%) Synopsys
6 3 (4.76%) Xilinx
7 2 (3.17%) Oracle
7 2 (3.17%) Sun
8 1 (1.59%) BMC
8 1 (1.59%) Remedy
8 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.59%) SAP
8 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow