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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 418 343
Rank change year-on-year -19 -75 +229
Contract jobs citing YAML 84 156 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.37% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 1.75% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 112 277
10th Percentile £350 £418 £458
25th Percentile £440 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £609 £650 £688
90th Percentile £675 £688 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.64% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £72.25 - £72.00
25th Percentile £79.38 - £74.25
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £93.75 - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £87.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +41.82%

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 6,593 8,903 13,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.59% 20.92% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,525 6,174 9,670
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £420 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 245 150
10th Percentile £29.20 £21.25 £29.58
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.36 £74.80 £81.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +28.36%

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 16 May 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 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 14 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 16 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
England -3 66 £501 -16.58% 62
London -5 39 £512 -18.16% 34
UK excluding London +17 31 £500 -4.76% 41
Work from Home -14 31 £495 -13.91% 42
South East +55 14 £563 +28.57% 25
Midlands +18 6 £475 +26.67% 1
West Midlands +14 5 £475 +26.67%
Scotland +9 4 £525 -8.70% 5
North of England -7 4 £425 -17.07% 7
South West +32 3 £638 +21.43% 1
North West +6 2 £488 -5.11% 4
Yorkshire -9 2 £358 -25.29% 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
Wales - 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 11 (13.10%) Apache
3 6 (7.14%) Jupyter
4 4 (4.76%) Confluence
5 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.38%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (72.62%) Azure
2 36 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 16 (19.05%) GitHub
5 15 (17.86%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (14.29%) Azure AKS
7 7 (8.33%) AWS
7 7 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (8.33%) OpenShift
8 6 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (7.14%) GCP
8 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (5.95%) Azure API Management
9 5 (5.95%) Azure Functions
9 5 (5.95%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (5.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.95%) Serverless
10 4 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.90%) DNS
2 7 (8.33%) HTTP
2 7 (8.33%) SSL
3 6 (7.14%) Firewall
3 6 (7.14%) SSH
4 5 (5.95%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.76%) SAN
6 3 (3.57%) BGP
6 3 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (3.57%) FTP
6 3 (3.57%) SMTP
6 3 (3.57%) VPN
7 2 (2.38%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.38%) DHCP
7 2 (2.38%) IPv6
7 2 (2.38%) OSPF
7 2 (2.38%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (2.38%) TACACS
7 2 (2.38%) VLAN
7 2 (2.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.86%) Power BI
2 14 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 11 (13.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (10.71%) Delta Lake
5 8 (9.52%) Apache Hive
6 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.76%) Big Data
7 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.76%) Redis
8 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.57%) MariaDB
8 3 (3.57%) MySQL
8 3 (3.57%) Power Query
8 3 (3.57%) SSDT
9 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.38%) Parquet
9 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (32.14%) Git
2 14 (16.67%) JIRA
3 11 (13.10%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.14%) RStudio
5 5 (5.95%) GitLab
6 4 (4.76%) Selenium
7 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.57%) Postman
7 3 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.38%) JUnit
8 2 (2.38%) Maven
8 2 (2.38%) Moq
8 2 (2.38%) MSTest
8 2 (2.38%) NUnit
8 2 (2.38%) Ranorex
8 2 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.19%) JMeter
General
1 25 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.67%) Finance
3 13 (15.48%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.57%) Banking
6 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Electronics
7 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.38%) Marketing
8 1 (1.19%) Arabic Language
8 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Developer
5 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Site Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Lead
7 4 (4.76%) Architect
7 4 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Senior
8 3 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Network Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) QA Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Quality Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (28.57%) JSON
2 14 (16.67%) .NET
3 11 (13.10%) PySpark
4 9 (10.71%) ARM Templates
5 8 (9.52%) pydantic
6 7 (8.33%) XML
7 6 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.76%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.76%) REST
8 4 (4.76%) RESTful
8 4 (4.76%) SOAP
9 3 (3.57%) ADO
9 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET
9 3 (3.57%) CSS
9 3 (3.57%) HTML
9 3 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (3.57%) Kafka
9 3 (3.57%) OAuth
9 3 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.71%) Data Structures
4 8 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (8.33%) Reference Data
6 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.76%) Public Cloud
8 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
8 3 (3.57%) Low-Code
8 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.19%) CMDB
10 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.19%) PMI
10 1 (1.19%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.76%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (3.57%) CentOS
3 3 (3.57%) Unix
4 2 (2.38%) Debian
4 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.38%) zOS
5 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (66.67%) DevOps
2 47 (55.95%) CI/CD
3 35 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (35.71%) Agile
5 21 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 21 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.81%) Scrum
7 12 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 11 (13.10%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (11.90%) Analytics
9 10 (11.90%) Observability
10 9 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (10.71%) Software Engineering
11 8 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (9.52%) Data Ingestion
11 8 (9.52%) Mentoring
11 8 (9.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 7 (8.33%) Data Security
12 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (51.19%) Python
2 25 (29.76%) PowerShell
2 25 (29.76%) SQL
3 22 (26.19%) Bash
4 17 (20.24%) C#
5 16 (19.05%) Bicep
6 8 (9.52%) Java
6 8 (9.52%) Scala
7 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.38%) JCL
10 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.38%) REXX
11 1 (1.19%) Go
11 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.76%) Degree
5 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) GDPR
2 4 (4.76%) QA
3 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) NCSC
4 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (19.05%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.38%) Ceph
3 2 (2.38%) NFS
3 2 (2.38%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.19%) Microcode
4 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (40.48%) Terraform
2 28 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 20 (23.81%) Ansible
4 11 (13.10%) Grafana
5 8 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.52%) Puppet
6 4 (4.76%) Argo
6 4 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.76%) Salt
7 3 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.38%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.38%) Nessus
8 2 (2.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.19%) Packer
9 1 (1.19%) Rancher
9 1 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Databricks
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.95%) Cisco
2 5 (5.95%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.76%) Dell
4 3 (3.57%) Google
4 3 (3.57%) UiPath
5 2 (2.38%) Broadcom
5 2 (2.38%) Brocade
5 2 (2.38%) IBM
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle
5 2 (2.38%) Planview
5 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.38%) SAP
5 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.38%) Sophos
5 2 (2.38%) Splunk
5 2 (2.38%) VMware
6 1 (1.19%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.19%) Sybase