RAML Contracts with Work from Home Options

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for RAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RAML over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 468 589
Rank change year-on-year +123 +121 -129
Contract jobs citing RAML 3 8 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.031% 0.074%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.083% 0.12% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 25
10th Percentile £489 - £393
25th Percentile £489 £613 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.68% +19.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile £490 £719 £586
90th Percentile £490 £725 £628
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% +10.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

RAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,622 6,458 13,219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.90% 25.29% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 4,803 9,764
10th Percentile £331 £394 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.55% +13.09%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

RAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing RAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RAML trend for jobs with a WFH option

RAML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing RAML.

RAML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (33.33%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Apigee
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (100.00%) Swagger
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) WSO2