yum Contracts

Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring yum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited yum over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 686 840
Rank change year-on-year +115 +154 -120
Contract jobs citing yum 13 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.020% 0.009%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.24% 0.13% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £420 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% - -
75th Percentile £546 £675 -
90th Percentile £574 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

yum falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,313 8,682 13,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.17% 15.63% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,841 6,197 9,951
10th Percentile £290 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 193 179
10th Percentile £15.43 £17.83 £13.20
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%
75th Percentile £53.00 £73.75 £42.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.95 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for yum in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for yum in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing yum over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for yum in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing yum.

Hourly rate trend for yum in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing yum within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +90 13 £495 -23.85% 3
UK excluding London +35 12 £450 - 2
South East +15 6 £450 - 1
North of England - 6 £560 -
North East - 4 - -
Work from Home +114 2 £540 -16.92% 1
North West - 2 £560 -
London +80 1 £588 -9.62% 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub
1 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) 5G
1 4 (30.77%) Diameter Protocol
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) LTE
2 2 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (15.38%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Unix Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) JSON
2 4 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle Linux
4 3 (23.08%) CentOS
4 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 2 (15.38%) Mac OS
5 2 (15.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
2 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (30.77%) Security Hardening
3 2 (15.38%) Benchmarking
3 2 (15.38%) Budgeting
3 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Server Hardening
3 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
3 2 (15.38%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.69%) Open Source
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Shell Script
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
3 2 (15.38%) AWK
3 2 (15.38%) Bourne shell
3 2 (15.38%) Korn
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) RHCE
2 2 (15.38%) RHCSA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (46.15%) Ansible
3 4 (30.77%) Grafana
3 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
3 4 (30.77%) SELinux
3 4 (30.77%) Terraform
4 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle ZFS
4 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (15.38%) systemd
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) EMC
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) Veritas
3 1 (7.69%) Apple
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco