Rational Unified Process (RUP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RUP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RUP over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 891 979 1108
Rank change year-on-year +88 +129 -248
Permanent jobs citing RUP 3 14 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.013% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.014% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 95
10th Percentile - £55,003 -
25th Percentile - £55,004 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile - £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £117,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

RUP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

RUP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RUP in the UK

RUP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RUP.

Salary trend for RUP in the UK

RUP
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RUP within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +108 3 £65,000 -18.75% 1
Work from Home +81 3 £65,000 +13.25%
South East +30 2 £65,000 -
UK excluding London -3 2 £65,000 -
London +131 1 - - 1

RUP
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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Product Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Entity Framework
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Product Vision
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) R
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA