RAML Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring RAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 121 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing RAML 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.16% 0.044% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £268 - -
25th Percentile £269 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% - -
75th Percentile £338 £419 -
90th Percentile £378 - -
England median daily rate £463 £390 £675
% change year-on-year +18.59% -42.22% +21.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 630 417 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.11% 18.15% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 272 281
10th Percentile £360 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £688 £724 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 7
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.35
25th Percentile £25.07 £26.25 £19.16
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.84% +55.10%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £49.88
90th Percentile £69.08 - £59.60
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RAML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

RAML job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RAML

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RAML in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RAML in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAML within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
East Midlands -13 4 £270 -34.55%
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Mule
2 1 (20.00%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Payments Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Swagger
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Batch
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) MUnit
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft