YAML Contracts in Wales

YAML
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing YAML 1 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.34% - 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.08% - 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £506
25th Percentile - - £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £569
UK median daily rate £512 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.75% +9.09% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 48 88 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 16.38% 22.28% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 72 135
10th Percentile £234 £290 £313
25th Percentile £327 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £547 £531 £586
90th Percentile £596 £594 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £20.68 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £21.53 £15.66 -
Median hourly rate £25.63 £18.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.26% - -
75th Percentile £36.31 £21.29 -
90th Percentile £49.03 £22.77 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in Wales

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in Wales

YAML
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales - 1 - -
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google