YAML Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

YAML
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring YAML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 18 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing YAML 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 11.36% 1.09% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 50.00% 14.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £563 - -
25th Percentile £597 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £700 £585 -
% change year-on-year +19.66% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 22.73% 7.61% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 5
10th Percentile £563 - -
25th Percentile £600 £425 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +12.50% -5.16%
75th Percentile £700 £506 £475
90th Percentile - £525 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -8.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.83%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in Worcestershire

YAML
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing YAML

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in Worcestershire

YAML
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Malvern -5 7 £700 -
Worcester - 7 £700 -
YAML
West Midlands

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 3 (30.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Datadog
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (30.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (30.00%) npm
2 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (30.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (30.00%) CircleCI
2 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (30.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Gradle
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) JUnit
2 3 (30.00%) Maven
2 3 (30.00%) Postman
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) Snyk
2 3 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (30.00%) webpack
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
1 3 (30.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 3 (30.00%) Software Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) Go
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 3 (30.00%) Podman
2 3 (30.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (30.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Splunk