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 23 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 354 565
Rank change year-on-year -61 +211 -87
Contract jobs citing YAML 172 387 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.70% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.87% 3.04% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 262 197
10th Percentile £460 £458 £450
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £663
90th Percentile £675 £800 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £607 £525
% change year-on-year -11.83% +15.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £90.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +41.82% +4.76%

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 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -58 154 £585 +1.74% 39
London -53 78 £600 +9.09% 17
UK excluding London -9 70 £535 -11.83% 20
Work from Home +38 66 £585 +1.74% 34
South East -3 24 £535 -17.69% 6
South West +10 21 £525 -14.29% 1
North of England +18 20 £622 -11.14% 4
Yorkshire - 17 £624 - 3
West Midlands +28 13 £582 - 2
Midlands +26 13 £582 +5.82% 5
Scotland +42 4 £575 -
East of England +5 4 £625 +47.06% 5
North West +9 3 £513 +20.59% 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 12 (6.98%) Confluence
2 4 (2.33%) Apache Solr
2 4 (2.33%) nginx
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 89 (51.74%) Azure
2 46 (26.74%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (19.19%) AWS
4 30 (17.44%) GitHub
5 22 (12.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (9.88%) Azure API Management
6 17 (9.88%) GCP
7 14 (8.14%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (7.56%) Azure AKS
9 12 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (6.40%) Serverless
11 10 (5.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (5.81%) Entra ID
11 10 (5.81%) NuGet
11 10 (5.81%) PaaS
12 9 (5.23%) Apigee
12 9 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.23%) Kong
13 8 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (4.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.79%) DNS
2 21 (12.21%) Firewall
3 15 (8.72%) VPN
4 14 (8.14%) TCP/IP
5 13 (7.56%) HTTP
6 5 (2.91%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.33%) IPsec
7 4 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (2.33%) SSL
8 3 (1.74%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (1.74%) SNA
8 3 (1.74%) VSAN
9 2 (1.16%) Internet
9 2 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.16%) Modbus
10 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.58%) LAN
10 1 (0.58%) SNMP
10 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.30%) NoSQL
1 16 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.07%) MySQL
6 6 (3.49%) SSDT
7 5 (2.91%) Couchbase
7 5 (2.91%) Parquet
8 4 (2.33%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.33%) Redis
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.16%) Big Data
9 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.16%) Power BI
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.58%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 72 (41.86%) Git
2 25 (14.53%) GitLab
3 24 (13.95%) Jenkins
4 21 (12.21%) JIRA
5 15 (8.72%) Artifactory
6 10 (5.81%) SonarQube
7 9 (5.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (5.23%) CircleCI
7 9 (5.23%) Travis CI
8 4 (2.33%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.33%) Selenium
8 4 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.74%) Gradle
9 3 (1.74%) Subversion
10 2 (1.16%) CMake
10 2 (1.16%) Maven
10 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.58%) ERwin
11 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.95%) Finance
3 15 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.81%) Legal
5 8 (4.65%) Banking
6 7 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.49%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (26.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (18.60%) Developer
3 24 (13.95%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (7.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 13 (7.56%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (7.56%) Senior
5 11 (6.40%) .NET Developer
6 8 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (4.65%) C++ Developer
6 8 (4.65%) Data Engineer
6 8 (4.65%) React Developer
7 7 (4.07%) Architect
7 7 (4.07%) Lead
8 6 (3.49%) Azure Developer
8 6 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (3.49%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 6 (3.49%) Storage Manager
9 5 (2.91%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 5 (2.91%) Environment And Release Manager
9 5 (2.91%) IBM Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (29.65%) JSON
2 30 (17.44%) .NET
3 26 (15.12%) REST
3 26 (15.12%) XML
4 17 (9.88%) .NET Core
5 14 (8.14%) HTML
5 14 (8.14%) Swagger
6 11 (6.40%) Node.js
6 11 (6.40%) React
6 11 (6.40%) SOAP
7 10 (5.81%) CSS
7 10 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (4.65%) GraphQL
9 6 (3.49%) WebSockets
10 5 (2.91%) OAuth
10 5 (2.91%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.33%) HTML5
11 4 (2.33%) LEMP Stack
11 4 (2.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.63%) Data Structures
2 12 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.98%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.23%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.91%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.91%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (2.33%) ASIC
5 4 (2.33%) FPGA
5 4 (2.33%) State Machine
5 4 (2.33%) Verilog
6 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Replication
6 2 (1.16%) Solar Panel
6 2 (1.16%) Wiki
7 1 (0.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (33.14%) Linux
2 21 (12.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (11.05%) Windows
4 11 (6.40%) zOS
5 9 (5.23%) Unix
6 4 (2.33%) Alpine Linux
6 4 (2.33%) CentOS
7 2 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (55.81%) DevOps
2 89 (51.74%) CI/CD
3 81 (47.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (41.28%) Agile
5 43 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (14.53%) Configuration Management
7 23 (13.37%) Infrastructure Automation
7 23 (13.37%) OO
8 22 (12.79%) Scrum
9 21 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (12.21%) Microservices
9 21 (12.21%) Project Management
9 21 (12.21%) SDLC
10 20 (11.63%) Containerisation
10 20 (11.63%) Software Engineering
11 19 (11.05%) API Management
11 19 (11.05%) Validation
12 18 (10.47%) TDD
12 18 (10.47%) Unit Testing
13 16 (9.30%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 64 (37.21%) Python
2 63 (36.63%) PowerShell
3 32 (18.60%) C#
4 30 (17.44%) SQL
5 27 (15.70%) Bash
6 20 (11.63%) Bicep
7 18 (10.47%) JavaScript
8 11 (6.40%) C++
8 11 (6.40%) JCL
8 11 (6.40%) REXX
9 9 (5.23%) Shell Script
10 8 (4.65%) Java
10 8 (4.65%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.91%) C
11 5 (2.91%) Go
12 4 (2.33%) PHP
12 4 (2.33%) SystemVerilog
12 4 (2.33%) Tcl
13 3 (1.74%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.74%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 41 (23.84%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.49%) Degree
5 3 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CCNP
7 1 (0.58%) CEH
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CISSP
7 1 (0.58%) GCIA
7 1 (0.58%) GCIH
7 1 (0.58%) GIAC
7 1 (0.58%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.05%) QA
2 10 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.07%) GDPR
4 5 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.33%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.33%) NIST
6 2 (1.16%) WCAG
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (23.26%) Docker
2 25 (14.53%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (6.40%) NFS
4 11 (6.40%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (5.81%) Active Directory
6 8 (4.65%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.91%) vSphere
8 3 (1.74%) vCloud
8 3 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.16%) Ceph
9 2 (1.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.58%) Firmware
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 97 (56.40%) Terraform
2 65 (37.79%) Ansible
3 39 (22.67%) Kubernetes
4 27 (15.70%) Progress Chef
4 27 (15.70%) Puppet
5 19 (11.05%) Grafana
6 15 (8.72%) Prometheus
7 14 (8.14%) Salt
8 10 (5.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 9 (5.23%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (5.23%) Kibana
9 9 (5.23%) logstash
10 5 (2.91%) Istio
11 3 (1.74%) Autotask
11 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.74%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.74%) vRealize
12 2 (1.16%) Argo
12 2 (1.16%) Pacemaker
12 2 (1.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (16.86%) VMware
2 22 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.79%) Red Hat
3 13 (7.56%) SaltStack
4 11 (6.40%) Broadcom
4 11 (6.40%) Brocade
4 11 (6.40%) CA
4 11 (6.40%) Dell
4 11 (6.40%) IBM
5 10 (5.81%) Splunk
6 7 (4.07%) Google
6 7 (4.07%) Oracle
7 4 (2.33%) Black Duck
7 4 (2.33%) BMC
7 4 (2.33%) Remedy
8 3 (1.74%) Arista
8 3 (1.74%) Databricks
8 3 (1.74%) F5
8 3 (1.74%) Synopsys
8 3 (1.74%) TOWER Software