YAML Contracts in the North West

YAML
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 132 141 161
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -27
Contract jobs citing YAML 3 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 0.30% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 1.63% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile - £283 £462
25th Percentile £494 £313 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -19.05% +5.53%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £538
90th Percentile £536 £650 £568
England median daily rate £585 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.74% +4.55% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 501 551 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.94% 18.29% 24.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 435 720
10th Percentile £350 £338 £362
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £650 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 31
10th Percentile £37.63 £37.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.77 £29.63
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -42.01% +118.75%
75th Percentile £72.03 £44.78 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £45.62 £81.00
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the North West

YAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in the North West

YAML
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the North West 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
Manchester +6 2 £513 +20.59% 2
Cumbria - 1 £525 -
YAML
England

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Alpine Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft