YAML Contracts with Work from Home Options

YAML
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for YAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited YAML over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 318 445
Rank change year-on-year +41 +127 -97
Contract jobs citing YAML 67 146 175
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.60% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.85% 2.37% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 107 136
10th Percentile £450 £458 £431
25th Percentile £488 £481 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £656
90th Percentile £691 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £560 £550
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £84.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +52.73% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

YAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,628 6,173 13,074
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.78% 25.23% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,557 4,598 9,675
10th Percentile £343 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -1.36% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 122
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.10
25th Percentile - £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.47
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.76
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

YAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

YAML trend for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing YAML over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

YAML daily 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 4 (5.97%) Apache Solr
1 4 (5.97%) nginx
2 3 (4.48%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.76%) Azure
2 20 (29.85%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (23.88%) GitHub
4 11 (16.42%) Azure Service Bus
5 10 (14.93%) AWS
5 10 (14.93%) Azure API Management
5 10 (14.93%) GCP
6 9 (13.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (11.94%) NuGet
8 6 (8.96%) Azure AKS
9 5 (7.46%) Apigee
9 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (7.46%) PaaS
10 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (5.97%) IaaS
10 4 (5.97%) Serverless
11 3 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (4.48%) Kong
11 3 (4.48%) OpenShift
11 3 (4.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) DNS
2 9 (13.43%) Firewall
3 7 (10.45%) TCP/IP
4 6 (8.96%) HTTP
4 6 (8.96%) VPN
5 4 (5.97%) HTTPS
5 4 (5.97%) IPsec
6 2 (2.99%) Internet
6 2 (2.99%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.49%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.49%) LAN
7 1 (1.49%) Modbus
7 1 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (10.45%) NoSQL
1 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.46%) MySQL
3 4 (5.97%) Couchbase
4 3 (4.48%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.99%) Redis
6 1 (1.49%) Big Data
6 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.49%) Parquet
6 1 (1.49%) SSDT
6 1 (1.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (28.36%) Jenkins
2 17 (25.37%) Git
3 13 (19.40%) GitLab
4 7 (10.45%) JIRA
5 3 (4.48%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (4.48%) CircleCI
5 3 (4.48%) Gradle
5 3 (4.48%) Travis CI
6 2 (2.99%) Selenium
6 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.49%) CMake
7 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (47.76%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Finance
5 4 (5.97%) Legal
6 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (20.90%) Developer
3 11 (16.42%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) .NET Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
5 7 (10.45%) Storage Manager
6 6 (8.96%) Azure Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Security Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) IBM Storage Specialist
8 4 (5.97%) Integration Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Storage Specialist
9 3 (4.48%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Full Stack .NET Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 3 (4.48%) React Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.84%) JSON
2 17 (25.37%) REST
3 15 (22.39%) .NET
4 9 (13.43%) SOAP
4 9 (13.43%) XML
5 7 (10.45%) GraphQL
5 7 (10.45%) Node.js
5 7 (10.45%) Swagger
6 6 (8.96%) .NET Core
7 5 (7.46%) ARM Templates
7 5 (7.46%) OAuth
7 5 (7.46%) OAuth2
8 4 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.97%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (5.97%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.97%) React
9 3 (4.48%) OpenAPI
9 3 (4.48%) OpenID
9 3 (4.48%) RESTful
9 3 (4.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.45%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (8.96%) Management Information System
5 5 (7.46%) Data Structures
5 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.49%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (43.28%) Linux
2 12 (17.91%) zOS
3 4 (5.97%) CentOS
3 4 (5.97%) Windows
4 3 (4.48%) Unix
4 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.99%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.49%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (61.19%) DevOps
2 38 (56.72%) Agile
3 34 (50.75%) CI/CD
4 26 (38.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (22.39%) Microservices
5 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (19.40%) API Management
7 12 (17.91%) Problem Management
7 12 (17.91%) Storage Management
8 11 (16.42%) High Availability
8 11 (16.42%) Project Management
9 10 (14.93%) SDLC
9 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
9 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (13.43%) Configuration Management
10 9 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (11.94%) Scrum
11 8 (11.94%) Test Automation
11 8 (11.94%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (52.24%) Python
2 17 (25.37%) C#
3 15 (22.39%) PowerShell
3 15 (22.39%) SQL
4 12 (17.91%) JCL
4 12 (17.91%) REXX
5 9 (13.43%) Bicep
6 5 (7.46%) Bash
6 5 (7.46%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.46%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.97%) Java
7 4 (5.97%) PHP
8 3 (4.48%) Go
8 3 (4.48%) Ruby
8 3 (4.48%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.49%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.49%) C
9 1 (1.49%) C++
9 1 (1.49%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.97%) Degree
3 3 (4.48%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) QA
2 7 (10.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.97%) GDPR
3 4 (5.97%) HIPAA
3 4 (5.97%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (22.39%) Docker
2 12 (17.91%) NFS
2 12 (17.91%) Time Sharing Option
3 5 (7.46%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (7.46%) VMware NSX
3 5 (7.46%) vSphere
4 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.48%) vCloud
5 2 (2.99%) Ceph
5 2 (2.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (44.78%) Terraform
2 25 (37.31%) Ansible
3 21 (31.34%) Kubernetes
4 11 (16.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (10.45%) Progress Chef
6 6 (8.96%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.96%) Puppet
7 5 (7.46%) Grafana
8 3 (4.48%) Autotask
8 3 (4.48%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (4.48%) Kibana
8 3 (4.48%) logstash
9 2 (2.99%) Pacemaker
9 2 (2.99%) Podman
10 1 (1.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Broadcom
1 12 (17.91%) Brocade
1 12 (17.91%) CA
1 12 (17.91%) Dell
1 12 (17.91%) IBM
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.45%) Google
4 5 (7.46%) VMware
5 4 (5.97%) BMC
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle
5 4 (5.97%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.97%) Remedy
6 3 (4.48%) Arista
6 3 (4.48%) Splunk
6 3 (4.48%) TOWER Software
7 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.99%) Sun
8 1 (1.49%) F5
8 1 (1.49%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow