YAML Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

YAML
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 274 272 337
Rank change year-on-year -2 +65 +109
Contract jobs citing YAML 30 73 141
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.48% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 1.99% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 53 110
10th Percentile £350 £452 £443
25th Percentile £374 £498 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £669
90th Percentile £663 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.75% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £69.88 - -
25th Percentile £73.44 - -
Median hourly rate £81.25 - -
75th Percentile £88.44 - -
90th Percentile £91.63 - -
UK median hourly rate £92.50 - £75.50
% change year-on-year - - +37.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

YAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

YAML trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

YAML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing YAML.

YAML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing YAML over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

YAML daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing YAML.

YAML hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing YAML over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

YAML hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) Azure
2 18 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (23.33%) GitHub
4 5 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 5 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (13.33%) AWS
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Event Grid
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.33%) Serverless
6 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (10.00%) GCP
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (6.67%) Datadog
7 2 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) DNS
1 4 (13.33%) HTTP
1 4 (13.33%) SSL
1 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.67%) FTP
2 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) SMTP
2 2 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (3.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Power BI
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Redis
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.33%) Parquet
3 1 (3.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (3.33%) RStudio
4 1 (3.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Electronics
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (3.33%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Migration Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Release Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) .NET
2 7 (23.33%) JSON
3 4 (13.33%) .NET Framework
4 3 (10.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.67%) ADO
5 2 (6.67%) boto
5 2 (6.67%) Flask
5 2 (6.67%) Kafka
5 2 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (6.67%) PySpark
6 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
6 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (3.33%) Keycloak
6 1 (3.33%) REST
6 1 (3.33%) SOAP
6 1 (3.33%) Swagger
6 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) PMI
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) zOS
3 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) DevOps
2 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (33.33%) Agile
5 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.00%) Observability
8 5 (16.67%) Scrum
8 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (13.33%) High Availability
9 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
9 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
10 3 (10.00%) Analytics
10 3 (10.00%) B2B
10 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 3 (10.00%) Microservices
10 3 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
3 9 (30.00%) Bicep
3 9 (30.00%) C#
4 8 (26.67%) Bash
5 6 (20.00%) SQL
6 3 (10.00%) Java
7 2 (6.67%) JCL
7 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (6.67%) REXX
8 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (3.33%) Go
8 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.33%) Ruby
8 1 (3.33%) Scala
8 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) NFS
2 2 (6.67%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (3.33%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Terraform
2 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (26.67%) Ansible
4 6 (20.00%) Grafana
5 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.33%) Packer
7 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Broadcom
1 2 (6.67%) Brocade
1 2 (6.67%) Dell
1 2 (6.67%) IBM
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.67%) SAP
1 2 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (3.33%) Darktrace
2 1 (3.33%) Databricks
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow