RAML Contracts in England

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring RAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RAML over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 517 613
Rank change year-on-year +71 +96 +127
Contract jobs citing RAML 34 32 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.086% 0.023%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.41% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 9
10th Percentile £331 £489 £400
25th Percentile £358 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £644 £638
90th Percentile £585 £723 -
UK median daily rate £420 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -20.05% -4.55% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

RAML 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,700 7,893 10,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.55% 21.17% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,941 5,495 7,892
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 263 136
10th Percentile £31.05 £23.80 £32.88
25th Percentile £48.13 £43.00 £50.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -10.77% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.49 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RAML in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RAML in England.

Daily rate trend for RAML in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RAML in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RAML in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAML within the England region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
South East +58 14 £499 - 2
North of England +7 9 £384 -46.11%
North West +13 8 £384 -46.11%
Midlands +9 7 £358 -26.86% 1
East Midlands +1 7 £358 -26.86%
London +32 5 £472 -10.19% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £370 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (44.12%) Anypoint
2 7 (20.59%) Mule
3 6 (17.65%) JBoss
3 6 (17.65%) Tomcat
3 6 (17.65%) WebLogic
3 6 (17.65%) WebSphere
4 5 (14.71%) Confluence
5 4 (11.76%) Mule ESB
6 3 (8.82%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.94%) Apigee
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (2.94%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) HTTP
2 3 (8.82%) HTTPS
2 3 (8.82%) SSL
3 2 (5.88%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) DB2
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Git
2 9 (26.47%) Bitbucket
3 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (17.65%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) GitLab
5 2 (5.88%) JUnit
5 2 (5.88%) Maven
5 2 (5.88%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.94%) Selenium
6 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 12 (35.29%) MuleSoft Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Scrum Master
4 5 (14.71%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Agile Scrum Master
6 2 (5.88%) Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Java Scrum Master
7 1 (2.94%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Test Automation Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (55.88%) REST
2 13 (38.24%) Web Services
3 11 (32.35%) SOAP
4 9 (26.47%) Spring
4 9 (26.47%) Spring Boot
5 7 (20.59%) JSON
6 6 (17.65%) RESTful
6 6 (17.65%) WSDL
6 6 (17.65%) XML
7 5 (14.71%) J2EE
7 5 (14.71%) Swagger
8 4 (11.76%) EJB
8 4 (11.76%) JSP
8 4 (11.76%) Servlets
8 4 (11.76%) Spring Batch
9 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
9 3 (8.82%) CSS
9 3 (8.82%) JPA
9 3 (8.82%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (8.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Product Ownership
2 6 (17.65%) Private Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) State Machine
4 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Android
1 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) API Development
2 15 (44.12%) Agile
3 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 9 (26.47%) API Management
4 9 (26.47%) Microservices
5 8 (23.53%) API Design
5 8 (23.53%) SDLC
6 7 (20.59%) Clean Code
6 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.59%) Scrum
7 6 (17.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 6 (17.65%) Budget Control
7 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (17.65%) DevOps
8 5 (14.71%) Backlog Management
8 5 (14.71%) Conflict Resolution
8 5 (14.71%) Servant Leadership
8 5 (14.71%) Situational Awareness
9 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) SQL
2 14 (41.18%) Java
3 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 5 (14.71%) DataWeave
5 4 (11.76%) C#
6 3 (8.82%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.94%) Python
7 1 (2.94%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) OCP
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) SLA
2 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) CloudHub
2 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) MuleSoft
2 9 (26.47%) Oracle
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.94%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk