RAML Contracts in the UK excluding London

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for RAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RAML over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 428 501
Rank change year-on-year +48 +73 -70
Contract jobs citing RAML 7 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.035% 0.039% 0.030%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £421 - £380
25th Percentile £465 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £495 £650 £553
90th Percentile £505 £695 £573
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -20.00% +21.95% +7.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

RAML 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 UK excluding London 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 3,263 4,222 6,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.10% 18.31% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 3,147 4,312
10th Percentile £324 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 88 148
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.21 £20.60
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +28.36% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.31 £73.94 £65.29
90th Percentile £74.95 £79.19 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RAML in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RAML in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for RAML in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
East Midlands - 6 £490 -
Midlands - 6 £490 -
South East +19 1 - -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
1 1 (14.29%) Gradle
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
2 5 (71.43%) OpenAPI
2 5 (71.43%) Swagger
3 1 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (14.29%) Dagger
3 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 1 (14.29%) gRPC
3 1 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (14.29%) JMS
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Ktor
3 1 (14.29%) OkHttp
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Retrofit
3 1 (14.29%) RxJava
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Code
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Architectural Design
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 5 (71.43%) Project Delivery
3 4 (57.14%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) MVC
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle