YAML Contracts in the UK excluding London

YAML
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 333 352 432
Rank change year-on-year +19 +80 -72
Contract jobs citing YAML 61 98 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.43% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.87% 2.33% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 57 56
10th Percentile £390 £440 £421
25th Percentile £430 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £622 £738 £588
90th Percentile £638 £841 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £560 £550
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £72.00 -
25th Percentile - £74.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £84.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £87.60 -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +41.82% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,256 4,203 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 3,144 4,310
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £691 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 146
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.94 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.19 £76.64
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the UK excluding London

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for YAML in the UK excluding London

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the UK excluding London

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for YAML in the UK excluding London

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +34 29 £513 -14.58% 5
Yorkshire - 25 £479 - 3
South West +11 12 £525 -14.29% 1
South East -10 10 £438 -27.89% 8
Scotland +27 4 £575 +43.75%
North West +12 4 £514 +2.75% 1
East of England +10 4 £625 +47.06% 1
West Midlands +23 2 £375 - 2
Midlands +22 2 £375 -26.83% 2
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (16.39%) Confluence
2 4 (6.56%) Apache Solr
2 4 (6.56%) nginx
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (49.18%) Azure
2 24 (39.34%) GitHub
3 17 (27.87%) AWS
4 14 (22.95%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (21.31%) GCP
6 9 (14.75%) Kong
7 6 (9.84%) Apigee
8 4 (6.56%) OpenShift
8 4 (6.56%) PaaS
9 3 (4.92%) IaaS
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.64%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.64%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (1.64%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.87%) DNS
2 15 (24.59%) Firewall
3 13 (21.31%) TCP/IP
4 12 (19.67%) VPN
5 9 (14.75%) HTTP
6 4 (6.56%) HTTPS
6 4 (6.56%) IPsec
7 3 (4.92%) BIG-IP
7 3 (4.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (4.92%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (4.92%) SSL
8 2 (3.28%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (8.20%) MySQL
3 4 (6.56%) Couchbase
3 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.28%) Redis
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.64%) Parquet
5 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.64%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 25 (40.98%) Jenkins
2 17 (27.87%) Git
3 15 (24.59%) JIRA
4 11 (18.03%) GitLab
5 10 (16.39%) Artifactory
6 9 (14.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (14.75%) CircleCI
6 9 (14.75%) Travis CI
7 6 (9.84%) SonarQube
8 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket
9 3 (4.92%) Subversion
10 2 (3.28%) CMake
10 2 (3.28%) Selenium
10 2 (3.28%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.64%) Postman
11 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Legal
3 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Finance
5 1 (1.64%) Advertising
5 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (21.31%) Storage Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Verification Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.28%) Junior
7 2 (3.28%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Analyst
8 1 (1.64%) Architect
8 1 (1.64%) Business Systems Analyst
8 1 (1.64%) Data Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Design Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (39.34%) JSON
2 9 (14.75%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (14.75%) XML
3 4 (6.56%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (6.56%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (4.92%) REST
5 2 (3.28%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.28%) pytest
5 2 (3.28%) Swagger
5 2 (3.28%) Yocto
6 1 (1.64%) .NET
6 1 (1.64%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.64%) OLE
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.75%) Data Structures
3 7 (11.48%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.56%) ASIC
5 4 (6.56%) FPGA
5 4 (6.56%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.56%) Verilog
6 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (49.18%) Linux
2 15 (24.59%) zOS
3 4 (6.56%) CentOS
3 4 (6.56%) Unix
4 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.28%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (3.28%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (59.02%) Agile
2 31 (50.82%) CI/CD
3 29 (47.54%) DevOps
4 23 (37.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (37.70%) Project Management
5 20 (32.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (24.59%) Storage Management
8 14 (22.95%) Problem Management
9 13 (21.31%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (21.31%) Scrum
9 13 (21.31%) Software Testing
10 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
10 11 (18.03%) DevSecOps
11 10 (16.39%) API Integration
11 10 (16.39%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (16.39%) Continuous Deployment
11 10 (16.39%) Cost Management
11 10 (16.39%) Software Delivery
12 9 (14.75%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 34 (55.74%) Python
2 21 (34.43%) PowerShell
3 19 (31.15%) Bash
4 15 (24.59%) JCL
4 15 (24.59%) REXX
5 5 (8.20%) C
6 4 (6.56%) C#
6 4 (6.56%) PHP
6 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.56%) SystemVerilog
6 4 (6.56%) Tcl
7 3 (4.92%) ActionScript
7 3 (4.92%) Assembly Language
7 3 (4.92%) C++
8 2 (3.28%) Bicep
8 2 (3.28%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) DV Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) GDPR
2 4 (6.56%) HIPAA
2 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (32.79%) Docker
2 15 (24.59%) NFS
2 15 (24.59%) Time Sharing Option
3 5 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.28%) Ceph
4 2 (3.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.28%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.28%) vSphere
5 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (1.64%) Firmware
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (62.30%) Ansible
2 31 (50.82%) Terraform
3 19 (31.15%) Kubernetes
4 15 (24.59%) Grafana
4 15 (24.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 11 (18.03%) Prometheus
6 9 (14.75%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (14.75%) Kibana
6 9 (14.75%) logstash
6 9 (14.75%) Progress Chef
6 9 (14.75%) Puppet
7 4 (6.56%) Istio
8 2 (3.28%) Pacemaker
8 2 (3.28%) Podman
9 1 (1.64%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (24.59%) Broadcom
1 15 (24.59%) Brocade
1 15 (24.59%) CA
1 15 (24.59%) Dell
1 15 (24.59%) IBM
2 10 (16.39%) Splunk
3 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.84%) Red Hat
4 6 (9.84%) VMware
5 4 (6.56%) Google
6 3 (4.92%) Cadence
6 3 (4.92%) F5
6 3 (4.92%) Synopsys
6 3 (4.92%) Xilinx
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle
7 2 (3.28%) Sun
8 1 (1.64%) BMC
8 1 (1.64%) Databricks
8 1 (1.64%) Remedy
8 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow