YAML Contracts in the South East

YAML
England > South East

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 172 245
Rank change year-on-year -5 +73 -49
Contract jobs citing YAML 24 39 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.69% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.25% 3.98% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 8
10th Percentile £338 £500 £447
25th Percentile £425 £594 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £650 £581
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.83% +29.17%
75th Percentile £585 £717 £606
90th Percentile £638 £750 £609
England median daily rate £582 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.22% +4.55% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 advertised in the South East 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 739 980 1,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.09% 17.29% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 691 988
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +13.51%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 38
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.88 £29.60
25th Percentile £56.58 £55.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £67.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +50.00% -12.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.23
90th Percentile £74.75 £79.51 £67.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +11.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YAML in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for YAML in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Hampshire +8 11 £582 -3.00% 5
Thames Valley -1 11 £450 -30.77% 2
Berkshire -31 11 £450 -30.77% 1
West Sussex - 2 £475 -
YAML
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Azure API Management
2 5 (20.83%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
3 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) NuGet
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.67%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Advertising
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Environment And Release Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Environment Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Release Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Junior
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (8.33%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure Automation
3 10 (41.67%) Validation
3 10 (41.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 9 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 9 (37.50%) DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) ETL
6 4 (16.67%) GitOps
6 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) High Availability
8 2 (8.33%) Agile
8 2 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 13 (54.17%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.67%) Docker
4 2 (8.33%) Ceph
4 2 (8.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (8.33%) vSphere
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (83.33%) Terraform
2 13 (54.17%) Ansible
3 9 (37.50%) Progress Chef
3 9 (37.50%) Puppet
3 9 (37.50%) Salt
4 4 (16.67%) Grafana
4 4 (16.67%) Istio
5 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
6 2 (8.33%) Pacemaker
6 2 (8.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 16 (66.67%) VMware
2 8 (33.33%) SaltStack
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) Sun
5 1 (4.17%) BMC
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) Remedy
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow