YAML Contracts in the South West

YAML
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 136 146 161
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 -21
Contract jobs citing YAML 21 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.64% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.30% 2.53% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 3
10th Percentile - £520 -
25th Percentile £513 £566 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +11.36% +29.41%
75th Percentile £582 £738 £575
90th Percentile £585 £793 £590
England median daily rate £585 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.74% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate - £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +41.82% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 488 513 643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.79% 15.14% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 404 475
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.01%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £589
90th Percentile £700 £714 £658
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 22 27
10th Percentile £43.75 £52.63 £49.20
25th Percentile £45.00 £56.56 £54.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +2.20% +27.20%
75th Percentile - £78.00 £65.13
90th Percentile £85.00 - £75.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for YAML in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for YAML in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for YAML in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire +4 10 £582 -
Bristol +8 6 £525 -9.68%
Dorset +11 4 - - 1
Gloucestershire -4 1 £650 -5.45%
YAML
England

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) Apache Solr
1 4 (19.05%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
1 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
1 4 (19.05%) HTTPS
1 4 (19.05%) IPsec
1 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Couchbase
1 4 (19.05%) MySQL
1 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Git
2 6 (28.57%) Artifactory
2 6 (28.57%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (47.62%) Legal
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (9.52%) Subject Matter Expert
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (4.76%) Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) JSON
1 4 (19.05%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (19.05%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Windows
3 4 (19.05%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (61.90%) Configuration Management
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
3 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) Software Delivery
4 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 9 (42.86%) Validation
5 8 (38.10%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 6 (28.57%) Data Protection
6 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 5 (23.81%) Agile
8 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (19.05%) Cost Reduction
8 4 (19.05%) Information Security
8 4 (19.05%) Microservices
8 4 (19.05%) Migration
8 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (19.05%) SDLC
9 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) PowerShell
2 6 (28.57%) Bash
3 4 (19.05%) PHP
4 1 (4.76%) Bicep
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
1 4 (19.05%) HIPAA
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (19.05%) NIST
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
1 9 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (100.00%) Terraform
2 20 (95.24%) Ansible
3 9 (42.86%) Progress Chef
3 9 (42.86%) Puppet
3 9 (42.86%) Salt
4 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) VMware
2 9 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 8 (38.10%) SaltStack
4 4 (19.05%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft