Yarn Contract Job Trends

Yarn Package Manager
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Yarn skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 511 595
Rank change year-on-year -79 +84 +127
Contract jobs citing Yarn 7 15 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.048% 0.007%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.047% 0.13% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 3
10th Percentile £425 £475 £554
25th Percentile £525 £493 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £585 £800
Median % change year-on-year +36.75% -26.88% +23.08%
75th Percentile £878 £788 £850
90th Percentile £888 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £498 £510
% change year-on-year - -2.45% -

All Cloud Computing 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 14,840 11,586 14,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.91% 37.20% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,196 7,703 10,613
10th Percentile £306 £313 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 174 322
10th Percentile £14.43 £16.83 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.46 £16.26
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £24.83 £20.99
% change year-on-year +49.01% +18.32% +5.72%

Yarn
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Yarn relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Yarn job vacancy trend in the UK

Yarn
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Yarn.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Yarn

Yarn
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Yarn over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Yarn in the UK

Yarn
Top 3 Contract Job 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 5 February 2026. 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
Work from Home -12 5 £813 +4.84% 2
London -41 5 £813 +6.56% 2
England -74 5 £813 +8.33% 4

Yarn
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) npm
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) webpack
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Babel
3 1 (14.29%) Storybook
3 1 (14.29%) Vite
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) Front Office
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) GUI Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
3 3 (42.86%) React Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior React Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Front Office Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Java GUI Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior GUI Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (14.29%) Senior UI Developer
5 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) React
1 7 (100.00%) Redux
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) HTML
3 5 (71.43%) RxJS
4 2 (28.57%) Electron
4 2 (28.57%) Jest
4 2 (28.57%) Playwright
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) CSS3
5 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 1 (14.29%) HTML5
5 1 (14.29%) MobX
5 1 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (28.57%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
4 4 (57.14%) Electronic Trading
4 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 1 (14.29%) Analytics
7 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (14.29%) OWASP
7 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (14.29%) SDLC
7 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
7 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
7 1 (14.29%) User Experience
7 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
1 6 (85.71%) TypeScript
2 4 (57.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG
2 1 (14.29%) QA