YAML Contracts in the Thames Valley

YAML
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 109 167
Rank change year-on-year -16 +58 -40
Contract jobs citing YAML 12 38 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.45% 1.32% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.16% 7.92% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 4
10th Percentile £334 £500 £398
25th Percentile £351 £600 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +10.64% +39.88%
75th Percentile £613 £728 £606
90th Percentile £639 £750 -
South East median daily rate £535 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -17.69% +13.04% +27.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 380 480 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.17% 16.68% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 347 446
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -1.77% -0.62% +15.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 6
10th Percentile £56.61 £46.30 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.65 £55.00 £41.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.50 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% +21.84% +104.54%
75th Percentile - £79.99 £68.03
90th Percentile £61.72 £80.33 £74.32
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £68.75 £46.25
% change year-on-year -10.40% +48.65% -7.50%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for YAML in the Thames Valley

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire -36 11 £450 -30.77% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £450 - 2
YAML
South East

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure API Management
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (8.33%) AWS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (8.33%) IaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (8.33%) NuGet
6 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (33.33%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Environment And Release Manager
1 4 (33.33%) Environment Manager
1 4 (33.33%) Release Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) GitOps
5 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.33%) API Management
6 1 (8.33%) Boundary Protection
6 1 (8.33%) Change Advisory Board
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Log Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (8.33%) RBAC
6 1 (8.33%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 4 (33.33%) Istio
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) BMC
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow