RAML Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 375 438
Rank change year-on-year +65 +63 +58
Contract jobs citing RAML 30 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.049% 0.039%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 7 4
10th Percentile £331 £450 -
25th Percentile £358 £490 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.79% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £719 £650
90th Percentile £517 £742 £695
UK median daily rate £402 £516 £625
% change year-on-year -22.13% -17.40% +21.95%

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 2,385 3,259 4,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.36% 16.04% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,649 2,141 3,124
10th Percentile £328 £324 £351
25th Percentile £402 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - -
75th Percentile £575 £606 £600
90th Percentile £650 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 213 87
10th Percentile £33.91 £21.88 £22.20
25th Percentile £55.19 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +29.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.49 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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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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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 18 May 2025.

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 18 May 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 +49 9 £463 -
North of England +28 9 £384 -47.03%
North West +17 8 £384 -47.03%
Midlands +18 7 £358 -26.86% 2
East Midlands +13 7 £358 -26.86% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 1
South West - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £358 -
Yorkshire - 1 £370 -
RAML
UK

RAML
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (43.33%) Anypoint
2 9 (30.00%) Mule
3 6 (20.00%) JBoss
3 6 (20.00%) Tomcat
3 6 (20.00%) WebLogic
3 6 (20.00%) WebSphere
4 4 (13.33%) Mule ESB
5 3 (10.00%) Confluence
5 3 (10.00%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Apigee
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) HTTP
2 3 (10.00%) HTTPS
2 3 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) DB2
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Git
2 7 (23.33%) Bitbucket
2 7 (23.33%) JIRA
3 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) JUnit
4 1 (3.33%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Developer
2 12 (40.00%) MuleSoft Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Scrum Master
4 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Agile Scrum Master
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Java Scrum Master
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (50.00%) SOAP
2 14 (46.67%) REST
3 13 (43.33%) Web Services
4 10 (33.33%) JSON
4 10 (33.33%) RESTful
4 10 (33.33%) Swagger
5 9 (30.00%) Spring
5 9 (30.00%) Spring Boot
5 9 (30.00%) XML
6 7 (23.33%) OpenAPI
7 6 (20.00%) WSDL
8 5 (16.67%) J2EE
9 4 (13.33%) EJB
9 4 (13.33%) JSP
9 4 (13.33%) Servlets
9 4 (13.33%) Spring Batch
10 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
10 3 (10.00%) Kafka
10 3 (10.00%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (20.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (10.00%) State Machine
4 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Android
1 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) API Development
2 13 (43.33%) Agile
3 12 (40.00%) API Management
4 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (30.00%) Microservices
5 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (23.33%) Scrum
7 6 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 6 (20.00%) Budget Control
7 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.00%) DevOps
7 6 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
7 6 (20.00%) SDLC
8 5 (16.67%) Backlog Management
8 5 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
8 5 (16.67%) Servant Leadership
8 5 (16.67%) Situational Awareness
9 4 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
9 4 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 14 (46.67%) Java
3 9 (30.00%) DataWeave
4 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.33%) C#
6 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.33%) Python
7 1 (3.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) OCP
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) CloudHub
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) MuleSoft
2 9 (30.00%) Oracle
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk