YAML Contracts in the UK excluding London

YAML
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring YAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YAML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 338 376
Rank change year-on-year +34 +38 +55
Contract jobs citing YAML 32 61 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 1.85% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 42 51
10th Percentile £418 £392 £425
25th Percentile £473 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £610 £738
90th Percentile £675 £644 £836
UK median daily rate £512 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.75% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.25
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £77.38
90th Percentile - - £77.75
UK median hourly rate £92.50 - £75.50
% change year-on-year - - +37.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
South East +49 17 £625 +31.58% 19
Midlands +25 6 £475 +26.67% 5
West Midlands +16 5 £475 +26.67% 2
South West +37 4 £625 +19.05% 3
Scotland +13 3 £525 -8.70% 2
North of England -5 2 £420 -15.79% 7
North West +14 1 £525 +2.19% 4
Yorkshire -13 1 £315 -30.35%
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 3
Wales - 1 - - 1
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 3 (9.38%) Apache
1 3 (9.38%) Apache Spark
1 3 (9.38%) Confluence
1 3 (9.38%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 15 (46.88%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (25.00%) GitHub
4 7 (21.88%) OpenShift
5 5 (15.63%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (15.63%) SaaS
6 3 (9.38%) AWS
6 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
6 3 (9.38%) Azure API Management
6 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (9.38%) IaaS
6 3 (9.38%) PaaS
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Stack
7 2 (6.25%) GCP
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
7 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
1 4 (12.50%) SAN
2 3 (9.38%) BGP
2 3 (9.38%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (6.25%) DHCP
3 2 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) HTTP
3 2 (6.25%) IPv6
3 2 (6.25%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (6.25%) OSPF
3 2 (6.25%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (6.25%) SSL
3 2 (6.25%) TACACS
3 2 (6.25%) VLAN
3 2 (6.25%) VSAN
4 1 (3.13%) MPLS
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Big Data
1 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (9.38%) Hadoop
1 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (9.38%) Redis
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
1 3 (9.38%) SSDT
2 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.25%) MariaDB
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) Power Query
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.63%) JIRA
3 4 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 4 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (9.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (9.38%) GitLab
4 3 (9.38%) Selenium
5 2 (6.25%) Maven
5 2 (6.25%) Moq
5 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (6.25%) SpecFlow
5 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.13%) JUnit
6 1 (3.13%) MSTest
6 1 (3.13%) NUnit
6 1 (3.13%) Postman
6 1 (3.13%) Snyk
6 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Electronics
4 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Site Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Data Integration Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) JSON
2 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 4 (12.50%) CSS
2 4 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (12.50%) HTML
2 4 (12.50%) RESTful
2 4 (12.50%) XML
3 3 (9.38%) .NET
3 3 (9.38%) ADO
3 3 (9.38%) OAuth
4 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.25%) Bootstrap
4 2 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (6.25%) LDAP
4 2 (6.25%) PySpark
4 2 (6.25%) React
4 2 (6.25%) REST
4 2 (6.25%) SOAP
4 2 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) CentOS
3 2 (6.25%) Debian
3 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.25%) Windows
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) DevOps
2 24 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 11 (34.38%) Agile
6 8 (25.00%) Scrum
6 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (18.75%) Design Patterns
7 6 (18.75%) ETL
8 5 (15.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
9 4 (12.50%) Insurtech
9 4 (12.50%) Observability
9 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (12.50%) Product Backlog
9 4 (12.50%) Progressive Web App
9 4 (12.50%) SOLID
9 4 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
9 4 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
9 4 (12.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 9 (28.13%) PowerShell
3 5 (15.63%) Bash
3 5 (15.63%) C#
3 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.50%) Bicep
4 4 (12.50%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Degree
3 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) NCSC
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Ceph
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (50.00%) Terraform
2 13 (40.63%) Kubernetes
3 8 (25.00%) Ansible
4 6 (18.75%) Grafana
4 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.38%) Argo
5 3 (9.38%) HAProxy
5 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (6.25%) Nessus
6 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 2 (6.25%) Puppet
6 2 (6.25%) SCCM
7 1 (3.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Red Hat
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco
3 3 (9.38%) UiPath
4 2 (6.25%) Dell
4 2 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) Sophos
4 2 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) Databricks
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk