RAML Contract Job Trends in the South East

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring RAML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 - 210
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RAML 14 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.40% - 0.036%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.39% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 - -
75th Percentile £559 - -
90th Percentile £621 - -
England median daily rate £404 £495 £513
% change year-on-year -18.48% -3.41% +2.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 587 712 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.66% 15.04% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 475 582
10th Percentile £293 £313 £313
25th Percentile £380 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £550 £624 £625
90th Percentile £625 £668 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £20.09 £27.15 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.42 £54.85 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £71.86
90th Percentile £58.69 £73.89 £75.00
England median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.20% +4.17% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing RAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for RAML in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RAML

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RAML in the South East over the 6 months to 1 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RAML in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAML within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Hampshire - 6 £499 -
Surrey - 4 £456 -
Thames Valley - 4 £600 -
Berkshire - 4 £600 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (100.00%) Anypoint
2 6 (42.86%) Mule
3 4 (28.57%) Mule ESB
4 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
1 9 (64.29%) MuleSoft Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) JSON
1 4 (28.57%) SOAP
1 4 (28.57%) XML
2 3 (21.43%) OpenAPI
2 3 (21.43%) REST
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 3 (21.43%) Swagger
2 3 (21.43%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) MUnit
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) API Development
1 7 (50.00%) API Management
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) API Design
4 4 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.14%) API Integration
6 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
6 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (7.14%) Microservices
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (7.14%) SDLC
6 1 (7.14%) SOLID
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) TDD
6 1 (7.14%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) DataWeave
2 4 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) OCP
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) OpenAI