YAML Contracts with Work from Home Options

YAML
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 275 313 452
Rank change year-on-year +38 +139 -99
Contract jobs citing YAML 66 145 171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.61% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.77% 2.43% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 106 129
10th Percentile £460 £458 £460
25th Percentile £501 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +1.77% +13.00%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £656
90th Percentile £688 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £575 £560 £560
% change year-on-year +2.68% - +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

YAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

YAML trend for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing YAML.

YAML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing YAML over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

YAML daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.06%) Apache Solr
1 4 (6.06%) nginx
2 3 (4.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.94%) Azure
2 17 (25.76%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (18.18%) GitHub
4 10 (15.15%) Azure API Management
4 10 (15.15%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (15.15%) GCP
5 8 (12.12%) AWS
5 8 (12.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (10.61%) NuGet
7 5 (7.58%) Apigee
7 5 (7.58%) PaaS
8 4 (6.06%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (6.06%) IaaS
8 4 (6.06%) Serverless
9 3 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.55%) Kong
9 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.15%) DNS
2 9 (13.64%) Firewall
3 7 (10.61%) TCP/IP
4 6 (9.09%) HTTP
4 6 (9.09%) VPN
5 4 (6.06%) HTTPS
5 4 (6.06%) IPsec
6 2 (3.03%) Internet
6 2 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.52%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.52%) LAN
7 1 (1.52%) Modbus
7 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (10.61%) NoSQL
1 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.58%) MySQL
3 4 (6.06%) Couchbase
4 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.03%) Redis
5 2 (3.03%) SSDT
6 1 (1.52%) Big Data
6 1 (1.52%) Parquet
6 1 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (30.30%) Git
2 14 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 13 (19.70%) GitLab
4 7 (10.61%) JIRA
5 3 (4.55%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (4.55%) CircleCI
5 3 (4.55%) Gradle
5 3 (4.55%) Travis CI
6 2 (3.03%) Selenium
6 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.52%) CMake
7 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.58%) Finance
4 4 (6.06%) Legal
5 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (24.24%) Developer
3 10 (15.15%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) .NET Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Azure Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) C++ Developer
6 4 (6.06%) IBM Storage Specialist
6 4 (6.06%) Senior
6 4 (6.06%) Storage Manager
6 4 (6.06%) Storage Specialist
7 3 (4.55%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Full Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) React Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.36%) JSON
2 18 (27.27%) REST
3 15 (22.73%) .NET
4 12 (18.18%) XML
5 9 (13.64%) SOAP
5 9 (13.64%) Swagger
6 7 (10.61%) Node.js
7 6 (9.09%) .NET Core
7 6 (9.09%) GraphQL
8 5 (7.58%) OAuth
8 5 (7.58%) OAuth2
8 5 (7.58%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (6.06%) ARM Templates
9 4 (6.06%) CSS
9 4 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (6.06%) HTML
9 4 (6.06%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (6.06%) React
10 3 (4.55%) OpenAPI
10 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Cloud Native
1 8 (12.12%) Data Centre
1 8 (12.12%) Data Structures
2 7 (10.61%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.55%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.52%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (43.94%) Linux
2 8 (12.12%) zOS
3 5 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.06%) CentOS
4 4 (6.06%) Windows
5 3 (4.55%) Unix
6 2 (3.03%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (1.52%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (60.61%) DevOps
2 34 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 33 (50.00%) Agile
4 30 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (22.73%) Microservices
7 12 (18.18%) Configuration Management
8 11 (16.67%) API Management
8 11 (16.67%) High Availability
8 11 (16.67%) Unit Testing
9 10 (15.15%) SDLC
10 9 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (13.64%) Software Engineering
11 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (12.12%) Problem Management
11 8 (12.12%) Storage Management
11 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
12 7 (10.61%) Project Management
12 7 (10.61%) Software Delivery
12 7 (10.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (42.42%) Python
2 15 (22.73%) C#
2 15 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 13 (19.70%) SQL
4 9 (13.64%) Bicep
5 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.12%) JCL
5 8 (12.12%) REXX
6 5 (7.58%) Bash
6 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.06%) C++
7 4 (6.06%) Java
7 4 (6.06%) PHP
8 3 (4.55%) Go
8 3 (4.55%) Ruby
8 3 (4.55%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.52%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.52%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.52%) Groovy
9 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) QA
2 5 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.06%) GDPR
3 4 (6.06%) HIPAA
3 4 (6.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Docker
2 8 (12.12%) NFS
2 8 (12.12%) Time Sharing Option
2 8 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.58%) VMware NSX
3 5 (7.58%) vSphere
4 3 (4.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.55%) vCloud
5 2 (3.03%) Ceph
5 2 (3.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 33 (50.00%) Terraform
2 24 (36.36%) Ansible
3 19 (28.79%) Kubernetes
4 9 (13.64%) Progress Chef
4 9 (13.64%) Puppet
5 7 (10.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 6 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 5 (7.58%) Grafana
8 3 (4.55%) Autotask
8 3 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (4.55%) Kibana
8 3 (4.55%) logstash
9 2 (3.03%) Pacemaker
9 2 (3.03%) Podman
9 2 (3.03%) Salt
10 1 (1.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Broadcom
1 8 (12.12%) Brocade
1 8 (12.12%) CA
1 8 (12.12%) Dell
1 8 (12.12%) IBM
1 8 (12.12%) VMware
2 7 (10.61%) Google
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.58%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.06%) BMC
4 4 (6.06%) Oracle
4 4 (6.06%) Remedy
5 3 (4.55%) Arista
5 3 (4.55%) SaltStack
5 3 (4.55%) Splunk
5 3 (4.55%) TOWER Software
6 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.03%) Sun
7 1 (1.52%) F5
7 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow