YAML
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 366 554
Rank change year-on-year -72 +188 -73
Contract jobs citing YAML 160 397 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.66% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 2.85% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 276 221
10th Percentile £427 £458 £425
25th Percentile £499 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £652
90th Percentile £678 £800 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £71.25 £52.75
25th Percentile - £72.38 £53.13
Median hourly rate - £75.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.27% -
75th Percentile - £77.38 £56.88
90th Percentile - £77.75 £57.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +37.27% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

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 27 April 2024.

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
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 27 April 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
England -40 143 £600 +8.11% 33
Work from Home +66 74 £600 +9.09% 23
London -64 74 £625 +13.64% 13
UK excluding London +42 62 £525 -4.55% 17
North of England +39 26 £499 -16.88% 4
Yorkshire - 22 £452 - 2
South West +30 14 £525 -27.59% 1
South East +10 14 £475 -20.83% 6
North West +10 4 £514 +2.75%
Scotland +28 3 £575 +43.75%
West Midlands +27 3 £375 -19.35% 3
Midlands +17 3 £375 -20.21% 3
East of England +15 2 £625 +47.06% 3

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 9 (5.63%) Confluence
2 6 (3.75%) NServiceBus
3 5 (3.13%) nginx
4 4 (2.50%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.63%) IIS
6 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (56.88%) Azure
2 56 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (21.25%) AWS
4 33 (20.63%) GitHub
5 27 (16.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (9.38%) Azure API Management
6 15 (9.38%) Serverless
7 14 (8.75%) GCP
7 14 (8.75%) PaaS
8 13 (8.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (8.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (7.50%) NuGet
10 11 (6.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.63%) Apigee
13 8 (5.00%) Azure AKS
13 8 (5.00%) IaaS
14 7 (4.38%) OpenShift
15 6 (3.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.88%) DNS
1 19 (11.88%) Firewall
2 12 (7.50%) VPN
3 11 (6.88%) TCP/IP
4 10 (6.25%) HTTP
5 8 (5.00%) SNA
5 8 (5.00%) VSAN
6 5 (3.13%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.50%) IPsec
8 2 (1.25%) FTP
8 2 (1.25%) Internet
8 2 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.63%) LAN
9 1 (0.63%) Modbus
9 1 (0.63%) Network Security
9 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.63%) SNMP
9 1 (0.63%) SSL
9 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.75%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (4.38%) MySQL
6 6 (3.75%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.75%) Parquet
7 5 (3.13%) Couchbase
8 4 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.50%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.50%) Redis
9 3 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.25%) Big Data
10 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.25%) Power BI
11 1 (0.63%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.63%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 58 (36.25%) Git
2 32 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 22 (13.75%) GitLab
4 15 (9.38%) Artifactory
4 15 (9.38%) JIRA
5 10 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.38%) NUnit
7 6 (3.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (3.75%) CircleCI
7 6 (3.75%) SpecFlow
7 6 (3.75%) Travis CI
8 4 (2.50%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.50%) Selenium
8 4 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.88%) Gradle
9 3 (1.88%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.25%) Maven
10 2 (1.25%) Subversion
11 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.75%) Finance
3 16 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.25%) Legal
6 7 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.13%) Marketing
7 5 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.50%) Electronics
8 4 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.88%) Banking
9 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (26.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (16.25%) Azure Engineer
3 25 (15.63%) Developer
4 14 (8.75%) Lead
4 14 (8.75%) Senior
5 13 (8.13%) .NET Developer
5 13 (8.13%) Storage Manager
6 11 (6.88%) Azure Developer
6 11 (6.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (5.63%) Data Engineer
9 8 (5.00%) Architect
9 8 (5.00%) Security Engineer
10 7 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.13%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (26.25%) JSON
2 32 (20.00%) .NET
3 26 (16.25%) .NET Core
4 23 (14.38%) REST
5 14 (8.75%) XML
6 13 (8.13%) SOAP
7 12 (7.50%) GraphQL
8 11 (6.88%) Node.js
9 10 (6.25%) Swagger
10 8 (5.00%) ARM Templates
11 7 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (3.75%) ASP.NET
12 6 (3.75%) Razor View Engine
12 6 (3.75%) WebSockets
13 5 (3.13%) Entity Framework
14 4 (2.50%) Apache Avro
14 4 (2.50%) OAuth2
14 4 (2.50%) pytest
14 4 (2.50%) React
14 4 (2.50%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.38%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.75%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.88%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.63%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.63%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.75%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.88%) Wiki
9 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.25%) ASIC
9 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) FPGA
9 2 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.25%) Replication
9 2 (1.25%) Solar Panel
9 2 (1.25%) Verilog
10 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (28.13%) Linux
2 19 (11.88%) zOS
3 8 (5.00%) Windows
4 7 (4.38%) Unix
5 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.50%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (2.50%) CentOS
8 1 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (55.00%) CI/CD
1 88 (55.00%) DevOps
2 77 (48.13%) Agile
3 56 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (15.63%) Project Management
5 24 (15.00%) API Management
5 24 (15.00%) Scrum
5 24 (15.00%) SDLC
6 22 (13.75%) Software Engineering
7 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (12.50%) Microservices
8 20 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (11.88%) Storage Management
9 19 (11.88%) TDD
10 18 (11.25%) Problem Management
11 17 (10.63%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (10.63%) OO
12 14 (8.75%) Analytics
12 14 (8.75%) Containerisation
13 13 (8.13%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 79 (49.38%) Python
2 48 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 38 (23.75%) C#
4 35 (21.88%) SQL
5 19 (11.88%) Bash
5 19 (11.88%) Bicep
5 19 (11.88%) JCL
5 19 (11.88%) REXX
6 9 (5.63%) Java
7 8 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.50%) C
8 4 (2.50%) PHP
9 3 (1.88%) Go
9 3 (1.88%) Ruby
10 2 (1.25%) Assembly Language
10 2 (1.25%) C++
10 2 (1.25%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (1.25%) Tcl
11 1 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 35 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.75%) Degree
5 3 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) CCNP
7 1 (0.63%) CEH
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) GCIA
7 1 (0.63%) GCIH
7 1 (0.63%) GIAC
7 1 (0.63%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) Data Quality
1 12 (7.50%) QA
2 9 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.38%) GDPR
4 4 (2.50%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.50%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (20.00%) Docker
2 19 (11.88%) NFS
2 19 (11.88%) Time Sharing Option
3 14 (8.75%) Active Directory
4 13 (8.13%) VMware NSX
5 10 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.13%) vSphere
8 4 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (1.88%) vCloud
10 2 (1.25%) Ceph
10 2 (1.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 80 (50.00%) Terraform
2 60 (37.50%) Ansible
3 42 (26.25%) Kubernetes
4 18 (11.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 16 (10.00%) Grafana
6 12 (7.50%) Prometheus
7 11 (6.88%) Progress Chef
8 10 (6.25%) Puppet
9 8 (5.00%) vCenter Server
9 8 (5.00%) vRealize
10 6 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (3.75%) Kibana
10 6 (3.75%) logstash
11 5 (3.13%) Istio
12 3 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.88%) Autotask
13 2 (1.25%) Argo
13 2 (1.25%) Pacemaker
13 2 (1.25%) Podman
13 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.50%) Dell
3 19 (11.88%) Broadcom
3 19 (11.88%) Brocade
3 19 (11.88%) CA
3 19 (11.88%) IBM
4 17 (10.63%) VMware
5 10 (6.25%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.38%) Google
6 7 (4.38%) Oracle
6 7 (4.38%) Splunk
7 4 (2.50%) Black Duck
7 4 (2.50%) BMC
7 4 (2.50%) Remedy
7 4 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.50%) SAP
8 3 (1.88%) Arista
8 3 (1.88%) Databricks
8 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.88%) TOWER Software