YAML Contracts in the Midlands

YAML
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring YAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YAML over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 154 195
Rank change year-on-year +26 +41 -36
Contract jobs citing YAML 13 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.44% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.93% 0.70% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £484 - £594
25th Percentile £564 £525 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -15.38% +36.84%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £750
90th Percentile £585 - £800
England median daily rate £585 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.74% +4.55% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

YAML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 444 574 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.06% 17.83% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 449 679
10th Percentile £296 £313 £360
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -1.04% +20.00%
75th Percentile £611 £594 £563
90th Percentile £704 £700 £625
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 9
10th Percentile £10.90 - £16.65
25th Percentile £14.16 - £18.58
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.20%
75th Percentile £51.25 - £27.50
90th Percentile £57.38 - £59.58
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +28 13 £582 - 2
YAML
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (15.38%) IaaS
1 2 (15.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
1 11 (84.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (84.62%) Configuration Management
2 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (84.62%) Validation
2 11 (84.62%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Dependency Management
5 1 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Virtual Machines
1 11 (84.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Terraform
2 11 (84.62%) Ansible
2 11 (84.62%) Progress Chef
2 11 (84.62%) Puppet
2 11 (84.62%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Red Hat
1 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 9 (69.23%) SaltStack