YAML Contracts in the West Midlands

YAML
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 106 129 168
Rank change year-on-year +23 +39 -45
Contract jobs citing YAML 2 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 1.46% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £581
25th Percentile - - £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.84%
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - - £745
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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 259 343 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.70% 15.16% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 237 442
10th Percentile £313 £360 £363
25th Percentile £375 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +3.54% +23.75%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £649
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £14.21 - -
25th Percentile £33.50 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £39.96 - £58.00
75th Percentile £55.31 - £59.50
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
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 West Midlands

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the West Midlands

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YAML in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for YAML in the West Midlands

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +5 2 £375 - 2
YAML
England

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform