RAML Contracts

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 669 803
Rank change year-on-year +120 +134 -136
Contract jobs citing RAML 30 15 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.027% 0.043%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.33% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 30
10th Percentile £489 £400 £399
25th Percentile £500 £472 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £575
90th Percentile £723 £646 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £591 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +47.81% -11.11% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 9,060 12,931 23,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 22.94% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,282 9,442 17,368
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 148 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.53 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.48 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%

RAML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RAML in the UK

RAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RAML in the UK

RAML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RAML over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RAML in the UK

RAML
Top 9 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 2 June 2024. 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 +116 29 £525 - 2
London +110 18 £525 -16.00%
UK excluding London +53 11 £591 +47.81% 2
East Midlands - 6 £490 -
Midlands - 6 £490 - 1
Work from Home +110 5 £608 -2.80%
North of England - 4 £713 - 1
North West - 4 £713 - 1
South East +9 1 - -

RAML
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 7 (23.33%) Anypoint
2 2 (6.67%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) OpenShift
3 7 (23.33%) Apigee
3 7 (23.33%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (23.33%) SaaS
3 7 (23.33%) Serverless
4 5 (16.67%) GitHub
4 5 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (13.33%) Boomi
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Git
1 11 (36.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (26.67%) Gradle
3 7 (23.33%) TeamCity
4 5 (16.67%) CircleCI
5 4 (13.33%) JUnit
5 4 (13.33%) Maven
6 1 (3.33%) XCTest
6 1 (3.33%) XCUITest
General
1 6 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Architect
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) MuleSoft Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Integration Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Android Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Integration Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) Senior
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (80.00%) REST
2 16 (53.33%) Swagger
3 12 (40.00%) OpenAPI
3 12 (40.00%) SOAP
4 9 (30.00%) Spring
5 8 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (23.33%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (23.33%) Apache Camel
6 7 (23.33%) Node.js
6 7 (23.33%) RESTful
7 5 (16.67%) FpML
8 4 (13.33%) Android Jetpack
8 4 (13.33%) Dagger
8 4 (13.33%) Jetpack Compose
8 4 (13.33%) OkHttp
8 4 (13.33%) RxJava
8 4 (13.33%) WireMock
8 4 (13.33%) XML
8 4 (13.33%) XML Schema
9 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Legacy Code
2 7 (23.33%) Public Cloud
3 5 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 5 (16.67%) Virtual Team
4 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Android
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Integration Patterns
2 15 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (36.67%) API Management
3 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
4 10 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 9 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (26.67%) Microservices
6 8 (26.67%) Open Source
6 8 (26.67%) Performance Analysis
7 7 (23.33%) Configuration Management
7 7 (23.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (23.33%) Functional Programming
7 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (23.33%) Software Delivery
8 6 (20.00%) Architectural Design
8 6 (20.00%) Security Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Agile
9 5 (16.67%) API Design
9 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Java
2 8 (26.67%) Kotlin
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Objective-C
4 1 (3.33%) Swift
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Ansible
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) MuleSoft
2 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) Oracle
2 9 (30.00%) Salesforce
2 9 (30.00%) SAP
3 7 (23.33%) Google
3 7 (23.33%) WSO2
4 2 (6.67%) IBM
4 2 (6.67%) Red Hat