YAML Contracts

YAML
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 440 360
Rank change year-on-year +11 -80 +190
Contract jobs citing YAML 90 161 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.37% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 1.80% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 119 277
10th Percentile £350 £427 £458
25th Percentile £440 £499 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £634 £650 £694
90th Percentile £675 £678 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £72.25 - £71.25
25th Percentile £79.38 - £72.38
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £75.50
75th Percentile £93.75 - £77.38
90th Percentile - - £77.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.50
% change year-on-year - - +37.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML.

Hourly rate trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing YAML over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -8 73 £525 -12.50% 52
London +4 44 £500 -19.96% 20
UK excluding London +25 33 £613 +16.67% 35
Work from Home +7 31 £498 -17.08% 33
South East +46 17 £625 +31.58% 9
Midlands +27 6 £600 +60.00% 6
West Midlands +19 6 £600 +60.00% 2
South West +35 4 £625 +19.05% 4
Scotland +9 3 £525 -8.70% 2
North of England +5 3 £525 +5.26% 5
Yorkshire -5 2 £465 +2.82%
North West +8 1 £525 +2.19% 3
Wales - 1 - - 1

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 12 (13.33%) Apache
3 6 (6.67%) Jupyter
3 6 (6.67%) SharePoint
4 5 (5.56%) Confluence
5 3 (3.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 65 (72.22%) Azure
2 37 (41.11%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (23.33%) Power Platform
4 20 (22.22%) GitHub
5 14 (15.56%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (13.33%) Azure AKS
7 8 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (7.78%) AWS
8 7 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (7.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (7.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (7.78%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.78%) PowerApps
9 6 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
9 6 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.67%) SaaS
10 5 (5.56%) Azure Functions
10 5 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.00%) DNS
2 7 (7.78%) Firewall
2 7 (7.78%) HTTP
2 7 (7.78%) SSL
3 6 (6.67%) SSH
4 5 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.44%) BGP
5 4 (4.44%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (4.44%) SAN
5 4 (4.44%) VPN
6 3 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (3.33%) FTP
6 3 (3.33%) SMTP
7 2 (2.22%) DHCP
7 2 (2.22%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.22%) IPv6
7 2 (2.22%) MPLS
7 2 (2.22%) Network Security
7 2 (2.22%) OSPF
7 2 (2.22%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.11%) Power BI
2 13 (14.44%) SQL Server
3 10 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 8 (8.89%) Apache Hive
6 5 (5.56%) Big Data
6 5 (5.56%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.33%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.33%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.33%) Redis
7 3 (3.33%) SSDT
8 2 (2.22%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.22%) MySQL
8 2 (2.22%) Parquet
8 2 (2.22%) Power Query
8 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.11%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (32.22%) Git
2 16 (17.78%) JIRA
3 13 (14.44%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.67%) GitLab
4 6 (6.67%) RStudio
5 5 (5.56%) Selenium
6 4 (4.44%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.44%) Postman
6 4 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.22%) JUnit
8 2 (2.22%) Maven
8 2 (2.22%) Moq
8 2 (2.22%) MSTest
8 2 (2.22%) NUnit
8 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.22%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.33%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.44%) Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Electronics
7 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.22%) Marketing
8 1 (1.11%) Arabic Language
8 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (28.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (17.78%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Developer
5 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Senior
7 6 (6.67%) Site Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Lead
8 4 (4.44%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Network Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Test Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (2.22%) Technical Developer
10 2 (2.22%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.67%) JSON
2 14 (15.56%) .NET
3 11 (12.22%) PySpark
4 8 (8.89%) ARM Templates
4 8 (8.89%) pydantic
4 8 (8.89%) XML
5 7 (7.78%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.56%) REST
6 5 (5.56%) RESTful
6 5 (5.56%) SOAP
7 4 (4.44%) .NET Framework
7 4 (4.44%) CSS
7 4 (4.44%) HTML
8 3 (3.33%) ADO
8 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.33%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.33%) Kafka
8 3 (3.33%) OAuth
8 3 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (12.22%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 8 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (7.78%) Cloud Native
5 7 (7.78%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.11%) CMDB
8 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.11%) PMI
8 1 (1.11%) Tandem
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (30.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.44%) CentOS
2 4 (4.44%) Unix
2 4 (4.44%) Windows
3 2 (2.22%) Debian
3 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.22%) VMS
3 2 (2.22%) zOS
4 1 (1.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (64.44%) DevOps
2 49 (54.44%) CI/CD
3 37 (41.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (34.44%) Agile
5 23 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (24.44%) Containerisation
7 21 (23.33%) Scrum
8 16 (17.78%) Test Automation
9 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (12.22%) Analytics
10 11 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (11.11%) Observability
11 10 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (11.11%) Software Engineering
12 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.89%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (8.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 7 (7.78%) Data Security
13 7 (7.78%) High Availability
13 7 (7.78%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (55.56%) Python
2 31 (34.44%) PowerShell
3 29 (32.22%) SQL
4 22 (24.44%) Bash
5 18 (20.00%) C#
6 16 (17.78%) Bicep
7 8 (8.89%) Java
7 8 (8.89%) JavaScript
7 8 (8.89%) Scala
7 8 (8.89%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (3.33%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.22%) JCL
10 2 (2.22%) REXX
11 1 (1.11%) Go
11 1 (1.11%) PHP
11 1 (1.11%) Ruby
11 1 (1.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.56%) Degree
5 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) GDPR
2 4 (4.44%) QA
3 3 (3.33%) NCSC
4 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.22%) Ceph
3 2 (2.22%) NFS
3 2 (2.22%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.11%) Microcode
4 1 (1.11%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (41.11%) Terraform
2 33 (36.67%) Kubernetes
3 22 (24.44%) Ansible
4 11 (12.22%) Grafana
5 9 (10.00%) Puppet
6 8 (8.89%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.44%) Argo
7 4 (4.44%) Salt
8 3 (3.33%) HAProxy
8 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (3.33%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.22%) Nessus
9 2 (2.22%) SCCM
9 2 (2.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.11%) Packer
10 1 (1.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.22%) Databricks
3 7 (7.78%) Cisco
4 5 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.44%) Dell
5 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.33%) IBM
6 3 (3.33%) Oracle
6 3 (3.33%) Planview
6 3 (3.33%) Splunk
6 3 (3.33%) Sybase
6 3 (3.33%) UiPath
6 3 (3.33%) VMware
7 2 (2.22%) Broadcom
7 2 (2.22%) Brocade
7 2 (2.22%) Google
7 2 (2.22%) SAP
7 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.22%) Sophos
8 1 (1.11%) HP