YAML Contracts with Work from Home Options

YAML
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 277 321 452
Rank change year-on-year +44 +131 -98
Contract jobs citing YAML 70 147 174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.60% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.93% 2.36% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 108 136
10th Percentile £450 £458 £430
25th Percentile £484 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £656
90th Percentile £688 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £560 £550
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +41.82% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,629 6,225 12,985
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.52% 25.26% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 4,638 9,580
10th Percentile £339 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £645
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 77 124
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.30
25th Percentile - £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

YAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

YAML trend for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing YAML.

YAML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing YAML over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

YAML daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (5.71%) Apache Solr
1 4 (5.71%) nginx
2 3 (4.29%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.00%) Azure
2 23 (32.86%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (22.86%) GitHub
4 12 (17.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (15.71%) Azure API Management
6 10 (14.29%) AWS
6 10 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (14.29%) GCP
7 8 (11.43%) NuGet
8 7 (10.00%) PaaS
9 6 (8.57%) Azure AKS
10 5 (7.14%) Apigee
10 5 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (7.14%) Serverless
11 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
11 4 (5.71%) IaaS
12 3 (4.29%) Azure Functions
12 3 (4.29%) Kong
12 3 (4.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.29%) DNS
2 9 (12.86%) Firewall
3 7 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (8.57%) HTTP
4 6 (8.57%) VPN
5 4 (5.71%) HTTPS
5 4 (5.71%) IPsec
6 2 (2.86%) Internet
6 2 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.43%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.43%) LAN
7 1 (1.43%) Modbus
7 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.14%) MySQL
3 4 (5.71%) Couchbase
4 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.86%) Redis
6 1 (1.43%) Big Data
6 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.43%) Parquet
6 1 (1.43%) SSDT
6 1 (1.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (27.14%) Git
1 19 (27.14%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.57%) GitLab
3 7 (10.00%) JIRA
4 3 (4.29%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (4.29%) CircleCI
4 3 (4.29%) Gradle
4 3 (4.29%) Travis CI
5 2 (2.86%) Selenium
5 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.43%) CMake
6 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Finance
5 4 (5.71%) Legal
6 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (21.43%) Developer
3 13 (18.57%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) .NET Developer
5 7 (10.00%) Azure Developer
5 7 (10.00%) Senior
5 7 (10.00%) Storage Manager
6 6 (8.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Integration Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Security Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) IBM Storage Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Storage Specialist
9 3 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (31.43%) JSON
2 17 (24.29%) REST
3 15 (21.43%) .NET
4 9 (12.86%) SOAP
4 9 (12.86%) XML
5 7 (10.00%) ARM Templates
5 7 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 7 (10.00%) Node.js
5 7 (10.00%) Swagger
6 6 (8.57%) .NET Core
7 5 (7.14%) OAuth
7 5 (7.14%) OAuth2
8 4 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.71%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.71%) React
9 3 (4.29%) OpenAPI
9 3 (4.29%) RESTful
9 3 (4.29%) Spring
9 3 (4.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.43%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (8.57%) Management Information System
5 5 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.43%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.43%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (41.43%) Linux
2 12 (17.14%) zOS
3 4 (5.71%) CentOS
3 4 (5.71%) Windows
4 3 (4.29%) Unix
4 3 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.86%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.43%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) DevOps
2 40 (57.14%) Agile
3 36 (51.43%) CI/CD
4 28 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (24.29%) Microservices
6 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (20.00%) API Management
8 12 (17.14%) Problem Management
8 12 (17.14%) Storage Management
9 11 (15.71%) High Availability
9 11 (15.71%) Project Management
10 10 (14.29%) SDLC
10 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (12.86%) Configuration Management
11 9 (12.86%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (12.86%) Test Automation
12 8 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (11.43%) Scrum
12 8 (11.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) Python
2 18 (25.71%) C#
3 17 (24.29%) SQL
4 15 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 12 (17.14%) JCL
5 12 (17.14%) REXX
6 10 (14.29%) Bicep
7 5 (7.14%) Bash
7 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.71%) Java
8 4 (5.71%) PHP
9 3 (4.29%) Go
9 3 (4.29%) Ruby
9 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.43%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.43%) C
10 1 (1.43%) C++
10 1 (1.43%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Degree
4 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) QA
2 7 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.71%) GDPR
3 4 (5.71%) HIPAA
3 4 (5.71%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (21.43%) Docker
2 12 (17.14%) NFS
2 12 (17.14%) Time Sharing Option
3 5 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (7.14%) VMware NSX
3 5 (7.14%) vSphere
4 3 (4.29%) vCloud
5 2 (2.86%) Ceph
5 2 (2.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (42.86%) Terraform
2 25 (35.71%) Ansible
3 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
4 11 (15.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (10.00%) Progress Chef
6 6 (8.57%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.57%) Puppet
7 5 (7.14%) Grafana
8 3 (4.29%) Autotask
8 3 (4.29%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (4.29%) Kibana
8 3 (4.29%) logstash
9 2 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.86%) Pacemaker
9 2 (2.86%) Podman
9 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Broadcom
1 12 (17.14%) Brocade
1 12 (17.14%) CA
1 12 (17.14%) Dell
1 12 (17.14%) IBM
2 10 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.00%) Google
4 5 (7.14%) VMware
5 4 (5.71%) BMC
5 4 (5.71%) Oracle
5 4 (5.71%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.71%) Remedy
6 3 (4.29%) Arista
6 3 (4.29%) Splunk
6 3 (4.29%) TOWER Software
7 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.86%) Sun
8 1 (1.43%) F5
8 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow