yum Contracts in the UK excluding London

Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring yum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited yum over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 393 440
Rank change year-on-year +64 +47 -
Contract jobs citing yum 10 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.029% 0.029%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.53% 0.25% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £326 - -
25th Percentile £335 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £400 £475 -
90th Percentile £438 - -
UK median daily rate £381 £450 £650
% change year-on-year -15.28% -30.77% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

yum falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,890 2,355 3,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.77% 11.35% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,705 2,653
10th Percentile £235 £211 £275
25th Percentile £393 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £660 £652 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 136
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.17
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -9.41% +112.50%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for yum in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for yum in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing yum in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for yum in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for yum in the UK excluding London

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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 yum within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +53 9 £400 -11.11%
Midlands - 1 £330 -
West Midlands - 1 £330 -
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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 (70.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DHCP
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
1 7 (70.00%) FTP
1 7 (70.00%) SMTP
1 7 (70.00%) Telnet
2 3 (30.00%) tcpdump
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (30.00%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Server Migrations
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
5 1 (10.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) Server Management
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) NFS
1 7 (70.00%) Samba
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) HP