RAML Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring RAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 333 402
Rank change year-on-year -66 +69 +79
Contract jobs citing RAML 8 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.057% 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.31% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £269 £378 -
25th Percentile £271 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.49% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £340 £402 -
UK median daily rate £463 £390 £675
% change year-on-year +18.59% -42.22% +22.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,308 2,549 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.14% 18.06% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,180 1,588 2,256
10th Percentile £345 £346 £325
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 54 132
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.00 £37.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.36 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.74 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

RAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

RAML job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RAML

RAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RAML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 8 January 2026. 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
Midlands -34 5 £270 -34.55% 1
East Midlands -23 4 £270 -34.55%
South East - 3 £275 -
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
RAML
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Mule
2 1 (12.50%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) MariaDB
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) CircleCI
1 3 (37.50%) Gradle
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Android Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Payments Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) Android Jetpack
2 3 (37.50%) Dagger
2 3 (37.50%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) OkHttp
2 3 (37.50%) RxJava
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) Swagger
2 3 (37.50%) WireMock
3 2 (25.00%) J2EE
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Batch
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) MUnit
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Legacy Code
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 3 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (37.50%) Open Source
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Time Management
4 2 (25.00%) Android Development
4 2 (25.00%) API Design
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (12.50%) API Management
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Kotlin
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Checkmarx
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft