UML Contracts in the UK excluding London

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for UML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UML over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 287 289
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 -49
Contract jobs citing UML 112 171 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.73% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.81% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 72 120
10th Percentile £402 £406 £408
25th Percentile £463 £431 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £634 £588
90th Percentile £692 £740 £676
UK median daily rate £650 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 54 45
10th Percentile £55.13 £48.93 £43.89
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +30.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.44 -
90th Percentile - £74.78 £65.30
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

UML is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing UML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for UML in the UK excluding London

UML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UML in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for UML in the UK excluding London

UML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UML in the UK excluding London

UML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UML in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for UML in the UK excluding London

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UML in the UK excluding London

UML
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 UML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South East -4 47 £500 +5.26% 14
South West +6 23 £550 -23.88% 28
Midlands +38 14 £360 -38.98% 15
East of England -24 14 £550 -2.22% 9
Scotland +47 10 £463 +2.78% 4
West Midlands +28 9 £500 -15.25% 12
North West +23 5 £500 +11.11% 11
North of England +22 5 £500 -2.44% 12
East Midlands - 5 £345 - 3
Wales +12 1 £200 -69.23%
UML
UK

UML
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 19 (16.96%) Confluence
2 2 (1.79%) Apache
2 2 (1.79%) JBoss
2 2 (1.79%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.79%) WildFly
3 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Simulink
2 5 (4.46%) Stateflow
2 5 (4.46%) TargetLink
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.89%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.14%) Azure
2 6 (5.36%) AWS
3 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.68%) Lucidchart
4 3 (2.68%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.79%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.79%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.79%) SaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.89%) GCP
6 1 (0.89%) IaaS
6 1 (0.89%) OCI
6 1 (0.89%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.89%) PaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.29%) Software-Defined Radio
2 15 (13.39%) SNMP
3 5 (4.46%) WAN
4 2 (1.79%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.89%) IPsec
5 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.89%) MQTT
5 1 (0.89%) NFC
5 1 (0.89%) PPP
5 1 (0.89%) RS-232
5 1 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (1.79%) MySQL
2 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (1.79%) Power BI
3 1 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 32 (28.57%) Git
2 22 (19.64%) Bitbucket
2 22 (19.64%) JIRA
3 17 (15.18%) Eclipse
4 16 (14.29%) GoogleTest
5 15 (13.39%) Rational Rhapsody
5 15 (13.39%) Robot Framework
6 13 (11.61%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (6.25%) Subversion
8 6 (5.36%) Visual Studio
9 5 (4.46%) Jenkins
10 3 (2.68%) JUnit
11 2 (1.79%) Maven
12 1 (0.89%) GitLab
12 1 (0.89%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.89%) MagicDraw
12 1 (0.89%) Rational Software Modeler
12 1 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.89%) TestRail
12 1 (0.89%) Valgrind
General
1 13 (11.61%) Electronics
2 12 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.82%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (9.82%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.93%) Finance
4 10 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.04%) Aerospace
6 7 (6.25%) Marketing
7 6 (5.36%) Billing
8 5 (4.46%) Automotive
8 5 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Aviation
10 1 (0.89%) Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Law
10 1 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (29.46%) Software Engineer
2 21 (18.75%) Developer
3 19 (16.96%) Architect
4 18 (16.07%) Analyst
4 18 (16.07%) Senior
5 16 (14.29%) Business Analyst
6 15 (13.39%) C++ Software Engineer
6 15 (13.39%) Embedded Engineer
6 15 (13.39%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 13 (11.61%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (9.82%) Ada Engineer
8 11 (9.82%) Ada Software Engineer
9 9 (8.04%) Lead
10 7 (6.25%) Java Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Software Developer
11 6 (5.36%) Business IT Analyst
11 6 (5.36%) IT Business Analyst
11 6 (5.36%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.29%) CSS
1 16 (14.29%) HTML
2 11 (9.82%) .NET
3 10 (8.93%) Web Services
4 7 (6.25%) XML
5 5 (4.46%) .NET Framework
5 5 (4.46%) Blazor
6 4 (3.57%) XSLT
7 3 (2.68%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.68%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.68%) JSON
7 3 (2.68%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (2.68%) RESTful
7 3 (2.68%) WCF
7 3 (2.68%) WPF
8 2 (1.79%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (1.79%) JPA
8 2 (1.79%) JSTL
8 2 (1.79%) REST
8 2 (1.79%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.36%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.68%) Device Driver
4 2 (1.79%) Cyberattack
4 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.79%) NHS
4 2 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.89%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.89%) SCADA
5 1 (0.89%) Smartcard
5 1 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (24.11%) Windows
2 25 (22.32%) Linux
3 9 (8.04%) Unix
4 4 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.89%) AIX
6 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.89%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (44.64%) Software Engineering
2 46 (41.07%) Agile
3 37 (33.04%) Validation
4 31 (27.68%) SysML
5 27 (24.11%) Scrum
5 27 (24.11%) Systems Engineering
6 26 (23.21%) Verification and Validation
7 21 (18.75%) ArchiMate
8 19 (16.96%) Customer Requirements
9 18 (16.07%) Prototyping
10 17 (15.18%) DevOps
10 17 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (14.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 15 (13.39%) Business Analysis
13 11 (9.82%) Embedded Software Development
13 11 (9.82%) Enterprise Architecture
13 11 (9.82%) ITIL
13 11 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (9.82%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.68%) C++
2 21 (18.75%) C
3 20 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 17 (15.18%) C#
4 17 (15.18%) Java
5 11 (9.82%) Ada
5 11 (9.82%) Python
6 6 (5.36%) MATLAB
6 6 (5.36%) SQL
7 5 (4.46%) Perl
8 4 (3.57%) Bash
9 2 (1.79%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.89%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.89%) XAML
Qualifications
1 25 (22.32%) Degree
2 22 (19.64%) Security Cleared
3 17 (15.18%) Master's Degree
4 16 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 10 (8.93%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.79%) CBAP
7 2 (1.79%) IIBA
7 2 (1.79%) ISEB
8 1 (0.89%) APMP
8 1 (0.89%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.89%) PhD
8 1 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.93%) MISRA
2 7 (6.25%) MISRA C
2 7 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.36%) NCSC
4 5 (4.46%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (4.46%) ISO 26262
5 4 (3.57%) DO-178B
6 3 (2.68%) Def Stans
6 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.79%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 20 (17.86%) Firmware
2 2 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 16 (14.29%) Google
2 13 (11.61%) IBM
3 7 (6.25%) Sparx
4 6 (5.36%) Guidewire
4 6 (5.36%) Oracle
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.68%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.89%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.89%) Twitter
7 1 (0.89%) VMware