YAML Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

YAML
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring YAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing YAML 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.58% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £400 £625
% change year-on-year +28.58% -36.00% +13.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 340 226 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 24.53% 30.62% 29.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 137 191
10th Percentile £392 £381 £381
25th Percentile £426 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £587 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £655
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.38% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £13.87
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.21%
75th Percentile £25.00 - £15.52
90th Percentile - - £16.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £45.00 - £16.19
% change year-on-year - - -39.54%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

YAML job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing YAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing YAML

YAML
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Leeds - 8 £700 - 3
YAML
Yorkshire

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
3 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (62.50%) GitHub
4 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (62.50%) Power Automate
4 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (62.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
5 1 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (12.50%) OCI
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) AI
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (62.50%) Agile
4 5 (62.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (62.50%) Observability
4 5 (62.50%) Zero Trust
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) High Availability
6 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
6 1 (12.50%) Information Security
6 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Java
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Jamf Pro
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Google
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype