YAML Contracts in England

YAML
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 396 338 587
Rank change year-on-year -58 +249 -136
Contract jobs citing YAML 154 328 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.70% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.97% 3.08% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 235 145
10th Percentile £463 £458 £460
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £646 £688 £670
90th Percentile £675 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £560 £560
% change year-on-year +2.68% - +12.00%
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 median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +41.82% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,836 10,653 18,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.89% 22.65% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,490 7,931 14,067
10th Percentile £350 £394 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 136 204
10th Percentile £22.73 £32.88 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £76.89
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in England

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for YAML in England

YAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for YAML in England

YAML
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the England 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
London -53 78 £600 +9.09% 12
South East -3 24 £535 -17.69% 12
South West +10 21 £525 -14.29% 2
North of England +18 20 £622 -11.14% 7
Yorkshire - 17 £624 - 5
West Midlands +28 13 £582 - 2
Midlands +26 13 £582 +5.82% 5
East of England +5 4 £625 +47.06% 6
North West +9 3 £513 +20.59% 2
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.79%) Confluence
2 4 (2.60%) Apache Solr
2 4 (2.60%) nginx
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (53.90%) Azure
2 45 (29.22%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (20.78%) AWS
4 27 (17.53%) GitHub
5 22 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (11.04%) Azure API Management
6 17 (11.04%) GCP
7 14 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (7.14%) Serverless
10 10 (6.49%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (6.49%) Entra ID
10 10 (6.49%) NuGet
10 10 (6.49%) PaaS
11 9 (5.84%) Apigee
11 9 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.84%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.84%) Kong
12 8 (5.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (5.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.29%) DNS
2 21 (13.64%) Firewall
3 15 (9.74%) VPN
4 14 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 13 (8.44%) HTTP
6 5 (3.25%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.60%) IPsec
7 4 (2.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (2.60%) SSL
8 3 (1.95%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (1.95%) SNA
8 3 (1.95%) VSAN
9 2 (1.30%) Internet
9 2 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.65%) LAN
10 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.65%) SNMP
10 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.39%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.90%) MySQL
6 5 (3.25%) Couchbase
6 5 (3.25%) Parquet
6 5 (3.25%) SSDT
7 4 (2.60%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.60%) Redis
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.30%) Big Data
8 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.30%) Power BI
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.65%) Bigtable
9 1 (0.65%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 67 (43.51%) Git
2 22 (14.29%) GitLab
3 18 (11.69%) Jenkins
4 16 (10.39%) JIRA
5 15 (9.74%) Artifactory
6 10 (6.49%) SonarQube
7 9 (5.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (5.84%) CircleCI
7 9 (5.84%) Travis CI
8 4 (2.60%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.60%) Selenium
8 4 (2.60%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.95%) Gradle
9 3 (1.95%) Subversion
10 2 (1.30%) Maven
10 2 (1.30%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.65%) ERwin
11 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.58%) Finance
3 15 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.49%) Legal
6 8 (5.19%) Banking
7 7 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (27.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (16.88%) Developer
3 24 (15.58%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (8.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 13 (8.44%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (8.44%) Senior
5 8 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (5.19%) Data Engineer
6 7 (4.55%) Architect
6 7 (4.55%) C++ Developer
6 7 (4.55%) Lead
7 6 (3.90%) .NET Developer
7 6 (3.90%) Azure Developer
7 6 (3.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (3.90%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 6 (3.90%) Storage Manager
8 5 (3.25%) Environment And Release Manager
8 5 (3.25%) Environment Manager
8 5 (3.25%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (3.25%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (30.52%) JSON
2 23 (14.94%) .NET
3 22 (14.29%) REST
3 22 (14.29%) XML
4 16 (10.39%) .NET Core
5 13 (8.44%) HTML
5 13 (8.44%) Swagger
6 9 (5.84%) CSS
6 9 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (5.19%) GraphQL
7 8 (5.19%) SOAP
8 7 (4.55%) Node.js
8 7 (4.55%) React
9 6 (3.90%) WebSockets
10 5 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.60%) Apache Avro
11 4 (2.60%) ARM Templates
11 4 (2.60%) JSON Schema
11 4 (2.60%) LEMP Stack
11 4 (2.60%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.34%) Data Structures
2 12 (7.79%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.84%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.84%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.25%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.60%) ASIC
6 4 (2.60%) FPGA
6 4 (2.60%) Verilog
7 3 (1.95%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.95%) State Machine
8 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Replication
8 2 (1.30%) Solar Panel
8 2 (1.30%) Wiki
9 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 51 (33.12%) Linux
2 21 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (12.34%) Windows
4 9 (5.84%) Unix
5 8 (5.19%) zOS
6 4 (2.60%) Alpine Linux
6 4 (2.60%) CentOS
7 2 (1.30%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (57.79%) DevOps
2 78 (50.65%) CI/CD
3 71 (46.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (38.31%) Agile
5 37 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 22 (14.29%) OO
6 22 (14.29%) Scrum
7 20 (12.99%) Infrastructure Automation
8 19 (12.34%) API Management
8 19 (12.34%) Containerisation
8 19 (12.34%) Validation
9 18 (11.69%) Project Management
9 18 (11.69%) SDLC
9 18 (11.69%) Software Engineering
10 17 (11.04%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (11.04%) Microservices
10 17 (11.04%) TDD
11 16 (10.39%) DevSecOps
11 16 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (39.61%) PowerShell
2 58 (37.66%) Python
3 30 (19.48%) SQL
4 27 (17.53%) Bash
5 25 (16.23%) C#
6 16 (10.39%) Bicep
6 16 (10.39%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.49%) C++
8 9 (5.84%) Shell Script
9 8 (5.19%) JCL
9 8 (5.19%) REXX
10 7 (4.55%) Java
11 4 (2.60%) PHP
11 4 (2.60%) SystemVerilog
11 4 (2.60%) Tcl
12 3 (1.95%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.95%) Assembly Language
12 3 (1.95%) C
12 3 (1.95%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 40 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.19%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.90%) Degree
5 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.65%) CCNP
7 1 (0.65%) CEH
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) GCIA
7 1 (0.65%) GCIH
7 1 (0.65%) GIAC
7 1 (0.65%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.74%) QA
2 10 (6.49%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.55%) GDPR
4 5 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.60%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.60%) NIST
6 2 (1.30%) WCAG
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (25.32%) Docker
2 25 (16.23%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.84%) Active Directory
5 8 (5.19%) NFS
5 8 (5.19%) Time Sharing Option
6 5 (3.25%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.30%) Ceph
8 2 (1.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (1.30%) vSphere
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 89 (57.79%) Terraform
2 58 (37.66%) Ansible
3 37 (24.03%) Kubernetes
4 24 (15.58%) Progress Chef
4 24 (15.58%) Puppet
5 19 (12.34%) Grafana
6 14 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 14 (9.09%) Salt
7 9 (5.84%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (5.84%) Kibana
7 9 (5.84%) logstash
8 7 (4.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (3.25%) Istio
10 3 (1.95%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.95%) vRealize
11 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.30%) Pacemaker
11 2 (1.30%) Podman
12 1 (0.65%) Argo
12 1 (0.65%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 26 (16.88%) VMware
2 22 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 21 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 13 (8.44%) SaltStack
5 10 (6.49%) Splunk
6 8 (5.19%) Broadcom
6 8 (5.19%) Brocade
6 8 (5.19%) CA
6 8 (5.19%) Dell
6 8 (5.19%) IBM
7 7 (4.55%) Google
8 6 (3.90%) Oracle
9 4 (2.60%) Black Duck
10 3 (1.95%) Cadence
10 3 (1.95%) Databricks
10 3 (1.95%) F5
10 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.95%) Synopsys
10 3 (1.95%) Xilinx
11 2 (1.30%) Sun