Yarn Package Manager
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Yarn skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Yarn over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 682 830
Rank change year-on-year +110 +148 -159
Contract jobs citing Yarn 14 16 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.028% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.075% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 22
10th Percentile £468 £875 £411
25th Percentile £542 £950 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £1,000 £600
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +28.00%
75th Percentile £775 £1,063 £700
90th Percentile £850 - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Yarn is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,931 21,394 33,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.78% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,904 15,475 24,618
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 346 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.81 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.64% +24.05% -

Yarn
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Yarn as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Yarn in the UK

Yarn
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Yarn.

Daily rate trend for Yarn in the UK

Yarn
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Yarn over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Yarn in the UK

Yarn
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Yarn within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +107 14 £600 -40.00% 1
London +87 10 £660 -34.00%
North West - 4 £475 - 1
UK excluding London - 4 £475 - 1
North of England - 4 £475 - 1
Work from Home +106 2 £644 -37.20% 1

Yarn
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) npm
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 4 (28.57%) Redis
1 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) KDB
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) webpack
2 6 (42.86%) Mocha
3 5 (35.71%) Babel
4 4 (28.57%) Jasmine
4 4 (28.57%) Karma Test Runner
5 3 (21.43%) Git
6 2 (14.29%) Ant
6 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
6 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
6 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (50.00%) Banking
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) UI Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Senior
4 4 (28.57%) Lead
4 4 (28.57%) Lead Developer
5 3 (21.43%) .NET Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (14.29%) React Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
7 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
7 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Grid Developer
7 1 (7.14%) Senior Development Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (7.14%) Senior React Developer
7 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Development Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Senior UI Developer
7 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) React
2 7 (50.00%) .NET
2 7 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (42.86%) CSS
3 6 (42.86%) Kafka
3 6 (42.86%) RESTful
4 5 (35.71%) Web Services
5 4 (28.57%) Node.js
6 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
6 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
6 3 (21.43%) HTML
6 3 (21.43%) Jest
6 3 (21.43%) Material-UI
7 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
7 2 (14.29%) JWT
7 2 (14.29%) MERN Stack
7 2 (14.29%) MobX
7 2 (14.29%) Mongoose
7 2 (14.29%) NestJS
7 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Algorithms
2 5 (35.71%) Data Structures
2 5 (35.71%) Derivative
2 5 (35.71%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (35.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (14.29%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (14.29%) Fixed Income
4 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
5 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (7.14%) Grid Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Asynchronous Programming
2 6 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 6 (42.86%) OO
3 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) Multithreading
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Web Development
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Memory Management
4 4 (28.57%) OOP
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) SOLID
5 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven Programming
5 3 (21.43%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (21.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (64.29%) TypeScript
3 8 (57.14%) C#
4 7 (50.00%) Java
5 6 (42.86%) SQL
6 2 (14.29%) C++
6 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
7 1 (7.14%) JSX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle