YAML Contracts

YAML
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 335 559
Rank change year-on-year -65 +224 -80
Contract jobs citing YAML 178 401 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.72% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.97% 3.12% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 271 202
10th Percentile £430 £458 £431
25th Percentile £494 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £561
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -0.22% +12.25%
75th Percentile £640 £678 £671
90th Percentile £675 £800 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £601 £525
% change year-on-year -12.57% +14.38% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £90.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +41.82% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing YAML.

Hourly rate trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England -64 160 £582 +1.22% 41
UK excluding London +10 79 £525 -12.57% 31
London -53 75 £613 +11.36% 12
Work from Home +37 69 £575 - 25
North of England +30 29 £513 -14.58% 6
Yorkshire - 25 £479 - 4
South East -4 24 £553 -15.00% 12
South West +14 21 £525 -14.29% 1
Midlands +30 13 £582 +5.82% 3
West Midlands +22 13 £582 - 2
Scotland +30 4 £575 - 4
North West +13 4 £514 +2.75% 1
East of England +5 4 £625 +47.06% 5

YAML
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 12 (6.74%) Confluence
2 4 (2.25%) Apache Solr
2 4 (2.25%) nginx
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 90 (50.56%) Azure
2 46 (25.84%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (21.35%) GitHub
4 33 (18.54%) AWS
5 25 (14.04%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (10.11%) Azure API Management
7 17 (9.55%) GCP
8 14 (7.87%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (6.18%) Azure AKS
9 11 (6.18%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (6.18%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (6.18%) NuGet
9 11 (6.18%) Serverless
10 10 (5.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (5.62%) Entra ID
10 10 (5.62%) PaaS
11 9 (5.06%) Apigee
11 9 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.06%) Kong
12 8 (4.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.36%) DNS
2 21 (11.80%) Firewall
3 15 (8.43%) VPN
4 14 (7.87%) TCP/IP
5 13 (7.30%) HTTP
6 5 (2.81%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.25%) IPsec
7 4 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (2.25%) SSL
8 3 (1.69%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (1.69%) SNA
8 3 (1.69%) VSAN
9 2 (1.12%) Internet
9 2 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.12%) Modbus
10 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.56%) LAN
10 1 (0.56%) Network Security
10 1 (0.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.11%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.99%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (6.18%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.93%) MySQL
7 6 (3.37%) SSDT
8 5 (2.81%) Couchbase
8 5 (2.81%) Parquet
9 4 (2.25%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.25%) Redis
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.12%) Big Data
10 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.12%) Power BI
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.56%) Bigtable
11 1 (0.56%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 73 (41.01%) Git
2 32 (17.98%) Jenkins
3 25 (14.04%) GitLab
4 21 (11.80%) JIRA
5 15 (8.43%) Artifactory
6 10 (5.62%) SonarQube
7 9 (5.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (5.06%) CircleCI
7 9 (5.06%) Travis CI
8 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.25%) Selenium
8 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.69%) Gradle
9 3 (1.69%) Subversion
9 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.12%) CMake
10 2 (1.12%) Maven
11 1 (0.56%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.56%) Postman
11 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.04%) Finance
3 15 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.62%) Legal
6 7 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.37%) Banking
8 4 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (24.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (16.29%) Developer
3 22 (12.36%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (7.30%) Senior
5 13 (7.30%) Storage Manager
6 11 (6.18%) .NET Developer
7 10 (5.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) React Developer
9 7 (3.93%) Architect
9 7 (3.93%) Azure Developer
9 7 (3.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Lead
10 6 (3.37%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) DevOps Automation Engineer
11 5 (2.81%) C++ Developer
11 5 (2.81%) Environment And Release Manager
11 5 (2.81%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (27.53%) JSON
2 31 (17.42%) .NET
3 25 (14.04%) REST
4 23 (12.92%) XML
5 19 (10.67%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.74%) Swagger
7 11 (6.18%) HTML
7 11 (6.18%) Node.js
7 11 (6.18%) React
7 11 (6.18%) SOAP
8 10 (5.62%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (5.06%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.93%) CSS
11 6 (3.37%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.81%) OAuth
12 5 (2.81%) OAuth2
13 4 (2.25%) HTML5
13 4 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.25%) RESTful
13 4 (2.25%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.67%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.55%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.74%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.74%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.81%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.81%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.25%) ASIC
6 4 (2.25%) FPGA
6 4 (2.25%) Verilog
7 3 (1.69%) State Machine
8 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Replication
8 2 (1.12%) Solar Panel
8 2 (1.12%) Wiki
9 1 (0.56%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (35.96%) Linux
2 21 (11.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (10.67%) Windows
3 19 (10.67%) zOS
4 9 (5.06%) Unix
5 4 (2.25%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (2.25%) CentOS
6 2 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (53.93%) DevOps
2 87 (48.88%) CI/CD
3 82 (46.07%) Agile
4 79 (44.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (16.29%) Project Management
7 25 (14.04%) Configuration Management
8 24 (13.48%) Scrum
9 23 (12.92%) API Management
9 23 (12.92%) Infrastructure Automation
10 22 (12.36%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (12.36%) OO
11 21 (11.80%) Containerisation
11 21 (11.80%) Microservices
11 21 (11.80%) SDLC
11 21 (11.80%) Software Engineering
12 20 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (10.67%) Storage Management
13 19 (10.67%) TDD
13 19 (10.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.01%) Python
2 60 (33.71%) PowerShell
3 35 (19.66%) C#
4 31 (17.42%) SQL
5 25 (14.04%) Bash
6 22 (12.36%) Bicep
7 19 (10.67%) JCL
7 19 (10.67%) REXX
8 15 (8.43%) JavaScript
9 9 (5.06%) Shell Script
10 8 (4.49%) C++
10 8 (4.49%) Java
10 8 (4.49%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.81%) C
11 5 (2.81%) Go
12 4 (2.25%) PHP
12 4 (2.25%) SystemVerilog
12 4 (2.25%) Tcl
13 3 (1.69%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.69%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 41 (23.03%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.49%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.37%) Degree
5 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CCNP
7 1 (0.56%) CEH
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CISSP
7 1 (0.56%) GCIA
7 1 (0.56%) GCIH
7 1 (0.56%) GIAC
7 1 (0.56%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.67%) QA
2 10 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.93%) GDPR
4 5 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.25%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.25%) NIST
6 2 (1.12%) WCAG
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (21.91%) Docker
2 26 (14.61%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (10.67%) NFS
4 19 (10.67%) Time Sharing Option
5 12 (6.74%) Active Directory
6 8 (4.49%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.81%) vSphere
8 3 (1.69%) vCloud
8 3 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.12%) Ceph
9 2 (1.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.56%) Firmware
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 95 (53.37%) Terraform
2 74 (41.57%) Ansible
3 40 (22.47%) Kubernetes
4 27 (15.17%) Progress Chef
4 27 (15.17%) Puppet
5 19 (10.67%) Grafana
6 18 (10.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 15 (8.43%) Prometheus
8 14 (7.87%) Salt
9 9 (5.06%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (5.06%) Kibana
9 9 (5.06%) logstash
10 5 (2.81%) Istio
11 3 (1.69%) Autotask
11 3 (1.69%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.69%) vRealize
12 2 (1.12%) Argo
12 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.12%) Pacemaker
12 2 (1.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (16.29%) VMware
2 22 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.36%) Red Hat
3 19 (10.67%) Broadcom
3 19 (10.67%) Brocade
3 19 (10.67%) CA
3 19 (10.67%) Dell
3 19 (10.67%) IBM
4 13 (7.30%) SaltStack
5 10 (5.62%) Splunk
6 7 (3.93%) Google
6 7 (3.93%) Oracle
7 4 (2.25%) Black Duck
7 4 (2.25%) BMC
7 4 (2.25%) Remedy
8 3 (1.69%) Arista
8 3 (1.69%) Cadence
8 3 (1.69%) Databricks
8 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.69%) TOWER Software