YAML Contract Job Trends in Wales

YAML
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 45 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing YAML 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.43% 1.07% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 5.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% - -
75th Percentile £438 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -12.02% +1.30% -4.17%

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 69 68 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 14.94% 18.23% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 39 74
10th Percentile £281 £196 £208
25th Percentile £370 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £388
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +34.19% -26.16%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £475
90th Percentile £653 £588 £550
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 0
10th Percentile £48.15 £18.64 -
25th Percentile £75.00 £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £25.58 -
90th Percentile £86.50 £35.80 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Wales

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing YAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing YAML

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 31 January 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
South Wales -4 2 £425 -26.09% 2
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Product Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle