RAML Contract Job Trends

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 540 595
Rank change year-on-year -24 +55 +165
Contract jobs citing RAML 23 12 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.035% 0.023%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.16% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 3
10th Percentile £276 £384 -
25th Percentile £413 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £390 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.19% -29.09% +0.59%
75th Percentile £520 £419 £631
90th Percentile £558 £519 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £390 -
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,286 7,543 9,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.52% 21.92% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,488 4,801 6,886
10th Percentile £352 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 101 175
10th Percentile £30.70 £21.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -1.15% +24.53% -19.70%

RAML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RAML job vacancy trend in the UK

RAML
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

RAML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RAML over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RAML in the UK

RAML
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 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
England -28 22 £469 +20.19% 5
London +3 14 £520 +1.46%
UK excluding London -55 8 £405 +3.85% 5
Work from Home +4 6 £463 +18.59%
Midlands -26 5 £270 -34.55% 3
East Midlands -20 4 £270 -34.55%
North West -32 2 £442 +13.33%
North of England -51 2 £442 +13.33%
South East - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 3

RAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (21.74%) Anypoint
1 5 (21.74%) Apache
1 5 (21.74%) Mule
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.35%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Azure AKS
2 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Serverless
3 4 (17.39%) GitHub
3 4 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure App Service
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) HTTP
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) DB2
2 2 (8.70%) MariaDB
2 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) JUnit
2 6 (26.09%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) Mockito
3 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket
3 4 (17.39%) CircleCI
3 4 (17.39%) Liquibase
4 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
5 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (8.70%) Postman
6 1 (4.35%) Gradle
6 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Lead
2 5 (21.74%) MuleSoft Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Android Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Backend Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Scrum Master
5 1 (4.35%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Payments Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (73.91%) REST
2 10 (43.48%) WireMock
3 5 (21.74%) Spring
3 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
4 4 (17.39%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (17.39%) Dagger
4 4 (17.39%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (17.39%) OkHttp
4 4 (17.39%) RxJava
5 3 (13.04%) JSON
5 3 (13.04%) Kafka
5 3 (13.04%) RESTful
5 3 (13.04%) SOAP
5 3 (13.04%) Swagger
5 3 (13.04%) Web Services
5 3 (13.04%) XML
6 2 (8.70%) J2EE
6 2 (8.70%) Java EE
6 2 (8.70%) Spring Batch
6 2 (8.70%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
1 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Microservices
2 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Domain-Driven Design
3 8 (34.78%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) CQRS
5 5 (21.74%) API Design
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (21.74%) Design Patterns
5 5 (21.74%) Scrum
5 5 (21.74%) TDD
6 4 (17.39%) Android Development
6 4 (17.39%) API Management
6 4 (17.39%) Clean Code
6 4 (17.39%) Code Quality
6 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
6 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (17.39%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Java
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Kotlin
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) DataWeave
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) MuleSoft
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Checkmarx
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce