YAML Contracts in the North of England

YAML
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 192 209
Rank change year-on-year +35 +17 -32
Contract jobs citing YAML 29 21 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.62% 0.38% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.19% 1.93% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 30
10th Percentile £415 £353 £457
25th Percentile £430 £481 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £623 £848 £538
90th Percentile £645 £850 £540
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with 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 910 1,088 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.58% 19.45% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 845 1,222
10th Percentile £363 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £440 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 38
10th Percentile £14.56 £37.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +10.62% +76.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £78.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the North of England

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for YAML in the North of England

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the North of England

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire - 25 £479 - 4
North West +10 4 £514 +2.75% 3
YAML
England

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (34.48%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (82.76%) GitHub
2 12 (41.38%) Azure
3 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 9 (31.03%) GCP
3 9 (31.03%) Kong
4 6 (20.69%) Apigee
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) DNS
1 9 (31.03%) Firewall
1 9 (31.03%) HTTP
1 9 (31.03%) TCP/IP
1 9 (31.03%) VPN
2 3 (10.34%) BIG-IP
2 3 (10.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (10.34%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (10.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.90%) Redis
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 25 (86.21%) Jenkins
2 11 (37.93%) GitLab
3 10 (34.48%) Git
3 10 (34.48%) JIRA
4 9 (31.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (31.03%) CircleCI
4 9 (31.03%) Travis CI
5 2 (6.90%) Selenium
5 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.45%) Postman
6 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Storage Manager
2 8 (27.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.45%) IBM Storage Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) JSON
2 9 (31.03%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (31.03%) XML
3 2 (6.90%) pytest
3 2 (6.90%) REST
3 2 (6.90%) Swagger
4 1 (3.45%) OLE
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Data Centre
2 9 (31.03%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) Linux
2 15 (51.72%) zOS
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) Agile
2 20 (68.97%) Project Management
3 19 (65.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (51.72%) Storage Management
5 14 (48.28%) Problem Management
6 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
7 11 (37.93%) DevOps
7 11 (37.93%) DevSecOps
7 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (37.93%) Scrum
8 10 (34.48%) API Integration
8 10 (34.48%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (34.48%) Cost Management
8 10 (34.48%) Software Testing
9 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
9 9 (31.03%) Continuous Deployment
9 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (31.03%) Secure Coding
9 9 (31.03%) Task Automation
9 9 (31.03%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (51.72%) JCL
2 15 (51.72%) REXX
3 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 9 (31.03%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.34%) ActionScript
5 2 (6.90%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) QA
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) NFS
1 15 (51.72%) Time Sharing Option
2 10 (34.48%) Docker
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (86.21%) Ansible
2 15 (51.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 12 (41.38%) Kubernetes
4 11 (37.93%) Grafana
4 11 (37.93%) Prometheus
4 11 (37.93%) Terraform
5 9 (31.03%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (31.03%) Kibana
5 9 (31.03%) logstash
5 9 (31.03%) Progress Chef
5 9 (31.03%) Puppet
6 1 (3.45%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Broadcom
1 15 (51.72%) Brocade
1 15 (51.72%) CA
1 15 (51.72%) Dell
1 15 (51.72%) IBM
2 10 (34.48%) Splunk
3 3 (10.34%) F5
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle