RAML Contracts

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 556 677
Rank change year-on-year +70 +121 +122
Contract jobs citing RAML 39 28 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.066% 0.033%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% 0.31% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 14 13
10th Percentile £334 £489 £413
25th Percentile £358 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £516 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.13% -17.40% +19.05%
75th Percentile £488 £594 £638
90th Percentile £546 £726 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -20.79% +1.50% +11.11%

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 6,603 8,926 13,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.60% 20.98% 23.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,526 6,198 9,681
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £647 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 246 144
10th Percentile £29.25 £21.25 £25.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.10 £74.47 £80.25
UK excluding London 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

Job postings citing RAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RAML in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RAML.

Daily rate trend for RAML in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RAML over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RAML in the UK

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Top 13 Contract 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 20 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
UK excluding London +71 30 £402 -20.79% 4
England +63 28 £387 -25.04% 3
Work from Home +46 10 £453 -25.51% 2
South East +51 9 £463 -
North of England +21 9 £384 -47.03% 1
North West +20 8 £384 -47.03% 1
Midlands +16 7 £358 -26.86% 2
East Midlands +11 7 £358 -26.86% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 1
London +36 3 £472 -10.19%
Yorkshire - 1 £370 -
South West - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £358 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (41.03%) Anypoint
2 11 (28.21%) Mule
3 7 (17.95%) JBoss
3 7 (17.95%) Tomcat
3 7 (17.95%) WebLogic
3 7 (17.95%) WebSphere
4 4 (10.26%) Confluence
4 4 (10.26%) Mule ESB
5 3 (7.69%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 4 (10.26%) Serverless
5 3 (7.69%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Apigee
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Boomi
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.56%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) HTTP
2 3 (7.69%) HTTPS
2 3 (7.69%) SSL
3 1 (2.56%) Firewall
3 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) DB2
2 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.26%) MySQL
3 4 (10.26%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.56%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 15 (38.46%) Git
2 9 (23.08%) Bitbucket
3 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
4 7 (17.95%) JIRA
5 2 (5.13%) GitLab
5 2 (5.13%) JUnit
5 2 (5.13%) Maven
5 2 (5.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) Selenium
6 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 13 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Developer
2 15 (38.46%) MuleSoft Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Scrum Master
4 3 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
4 3 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Consultant
6 1 (2.56%) Java Scrum Master
6 1 (2.56%) Lead
6 1 (2.56%) Lead Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Test Automation Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (46.15%) REST
1 18 (46.15%) SOAP
2 17 (43.59%) JSON
3 16 (41.03%) RESTful
3 16 (41.03%) Swagger
3 16 (41.03%) XML
4 15 (38.46%) Web Services
5 13 (33.33%) OpenAPI
6 9 (23.08%) Spring
6 9 (23.08%) Spring Boot
7 7 (17.95%) WSDL
8 5 (12.82%) J2EE
9 4 (10.26%) EJB
9 4 (10.26%) JSP
9 4 (10.26%) Servlets
9 4 (10.26%) Spring Batch
10 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
10 3 (7.69%) JPA
10 3 (7.69%) Kafka
10 3 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Product Ownership
2 7 (17.95%) Private Cloud
3 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (10.26%) Genomics
4 4 (10.26%) LIMS
4 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (7.69%) State Machine
6 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Android
1 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) API Development
2 19 (48.72%) Agile
3 15 (38.46%) API Management
3 15 (38.46%) Microservices
4 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.77%) Scrum
4 12 (30.77%) SDLC
5 9 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 7 (17.95%) Budget Control
7 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (17.95%) DevOps
7 7 (17.95%) Integration Patterns
7 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
8 6 (15.38%) Backlog Management
8 6 (15.38%) Conflict Resolution
8 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (15.38%) Servant Leadership
8 6 (15.38%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Java
2 18 (46.15%) SQL
3 11 (28.21%) DataWeave
4 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.38%) Python
6 4 (10.26%) C#
6 4 (10.26%) Ruby
7 3 (7.69%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) OCP
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.95%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 22 (56.41%) MuleSoft
2 14 (35.90%) Oracle
3 8 (20.51%) Salesforce
4 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
5 4 (10.26%) LabVantage
6 1 (2.56%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.56%) Dell
6 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk