YAML Contracts in the South East

YAML
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 173 245
Rank change year-on-year -10 +72 -48
Contract jobs citing YAML 10 33 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.59% 0.092%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 3.31% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 6
10th Percentile £326 £500 £436
25th Percentile £338 £556 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £607 £581
Median % change year-on-year -27.89% +4.39% +29.17%
75th Percentile £493 £750 £605
90th Percentile £518 - £606
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East 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 697 998 1,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.81% 17.86% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 715 992
10th Percentile £313 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £608
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 35 37
10th Percentile £36.40 £50.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.65 £56.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +100.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £79.83 £65.22
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in the South East.

Daily rate trend for YAML in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for YAML in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Thames Valley -24 7 £400 -38.46% 3
Berkshire -36 7 £400 -38.46% 1
West Sussex - 2 £475 -
Hampshire -6 1 - - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) NuGet
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Junior
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) GitOps
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) RBAC
4 2 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Runbook
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (20.00%) Ceph
3 2 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (20.00%) vSphere
4 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Grafana
2 4 (40.00%) Istio
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (20.00%) Pacemaker
4 2 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Sun
4 1 (10.00%) BMC
4 1 (10.00%) Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) Remedy
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow