Yarn Contracts

Yarn Package Manager
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Yarn skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Yarn 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 500 587 696
Rank change year-on-year +87 +109 +121
Contract jobs citing Yarn 19 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.030% 0.028%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.092% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 11
10th Percentile £475 £463 -
25th Percentile £713 £534 £950
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £600 £1,025
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -41.46% +60.78%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £1,063
90th Percentile - £850 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 -
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Yarn falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Yarn
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Yarn in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Yarn in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Yarn in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Yarn 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 +66 16 £775 +29.17% 11
London +42 16 £775 +7.64% 6
Work from Home +54 6 £775 +20.39% 9
UK excluding London +52 2 £500 +5.26% 6
Scotland - 2 £500 - 1

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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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) npm
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (10.53%) CloudFront
2 2 (10.53%) Route 53
2 2 (10.53%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
1 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (10.53%) MySQL
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (100.00%) webpack
2 13 (68.42%) Git
3 5 (26.32%) Ant
3 5 (26.32%) Babel
4 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (89.47%) Finance
2 15 (78.95%) Banking
3 12 (63.16%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Developer
2 13 (68.42%) UI Developer
3 12 (63.16%) Senior
3 12 (63.16%) Senior Developer
3 12 (63.16%) Senior UI Developer
4 5 (26.32%) React Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Grid Developer
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Junior
6 1 (5.26%) Junior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.26%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (89.47%) CSS
1 17 (89.47%) React
2 8 (42.11%) Redux
3 6 (31.58%) RESTful
4 5 (26.32%) CSS3
4 5 (26.32%) RxJS
5 4 (21.05%) HTML
5 4 (21.05%) HTML5
6 3 (15.79%) .NET
6 3 (15.79%) Material-UI
6 3 (15.79%) Semantic UI
6 3 (15.79%) Web Services
6 3 (15.79%) WPF
7 2 (10.53%) JSON
7 2 (10.53%) JSON Schema
7 2 (10.53%) Node.js
7 2 (10.53%) OAuth
7 2 (10.53%) TypeORM
8 1 (5.26%) Jest
8 1 (5.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Derivative
2 11 (57.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
1 12 (63.16%) Customer Requirements
1 12 (63.16%) Electronic Trading
1 12 (63.16%) Event-Driven
1 12 (63.16%) Event-Driven Programming
2 11 (57.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (57.89%) Web Development
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Fintech
4 4 (21.05%) User Experience
4 4 (21.05%) Wireframes
5 3 (15.79%) Asynchronous Programming
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
5 3 (15.79%) Functional Programming
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) UX Design
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 16 (84.21%) JavaScript
3 12 (63.16%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Okta