Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 527 584
Rank change year-on-year +32 +57 -150
Permanent jobs citing UML 434 527 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.51% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.53% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 342 337 563
10th Percentile £31,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £44,250 £51,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,125 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UML 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 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UML in the UK

UML
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for UML in the UK

UML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UML over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for UML in the UK

UML
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +52 409 £55,000 -19.41% 102
UK excluding London +44 356 £52,500 -4.55% 86
South West +89 183 £50,000 -9.09% 30
Work from Home -13 103 £57,500 -11.54% 43
London +13 74 £80,000 -5.88% 22
Midlands -19 55 £47,500 - 15
North of England +45 42 £62,500 +19.05% 10
North West +25 38 £62,500 +19.05% 9
East of England +11 30 £65,000 +13.04% 9
East Midlands +7 30 £42,500 -14.14% 2
West Midlands -24 25 £55,000 +15.79% 13
South East -31 24 £54,750 -12.40% 17
Scotland -39 18 £65,000 -27.78% 6
Yorkshire +78 4 - - 1
Wales +9 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2

UML
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
1 125 (28.80%) Confluence
2 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.92%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.92%) CMS
3 4 (0.92%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Drupal
5 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Mule
Applications
1 33 (7.60%) MS Visio
2 21 (4.84%) Simulink
3 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) CATIA
5 1 (0.23%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 34 (7.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (16.82%) Azure
2 37 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (7.37%) AWS
5 23 (5.30%) Miro
6 21 (4.84%) Power Platform
7 17 (3.92%) PaaS
7 17 (3.92%) SaaS
8 16 (3.69%) IaaS
9 15 (3.46%) Serverless
10 14 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.61%) GitHub
11 7 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.61%) npm
11 7 (1.61%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.61%) Yarn
12 4 (0.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (0.92%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (0.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.00%) Ethernet
2 6 (1.38%) 5G
2 6 (1.38%) 5G NR
2 6 (1.38%) 802.11
2 6 (1.38%) Internet
2 6 (1.38%) LTE
2 6 (1.38%) Software-Defined Radio
2 6 (1.38%) Wireless
3 5 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.92%) RFID
4 4 (0.92%) RS-232
5 1 (0.23%) HTTP
5 1 (0.23%) IPsec
5 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.23%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.83%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.15%) Power BI
3 11 (2.53%) Oracle Database
4 10 (2.30%) Redis
5 9 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.61%) MySQL
7 5 (1.15%) Big Data
7 5 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (0.92%) Data Vault
8 4 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.92%) GIS
8 4 (0.92%) OLAP
9 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.46%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.46%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 134 (30.88%) JIRA
2 115 (26.50%) Visual Studio
3 108 (24.88%) Git
4 89 (20.51%) Bitbucket
5 59 (13.59%) Sourcetree
6 43 (9.91%) Rational Rhapsody
7 39 (8.99%) Rational DOORS
8 14 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (2.53%) LabVIEW
10 8 (1.84%) NetBeans
11 7 (1.61%) Moq
12 5 (1.15%) Subversion
13 4 (0.92%) Jenkins
14 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.69%) MSTest
14 3 (0.69%) NUnit
14 3 (0.69%) Rational Team Concert
15 1 (0.23%) ERwin
General
1 94 (21.66%) Presentation Skills
2 88 (20.28%) Games
3 70 (16.13%) Social Skills
4 50 (11.52%) Finance
5 21 (4.84%) Electronics
6 20 (4.61%) Military
7 19 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.92%) Banking
9 13 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.00%) Marketing
10 12 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (2.76%) Automotive
10 12 (2.76%) Law
10 12 (2.76%) Retail
11 8 (1.84%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.61%) Private Banking
13 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.15%) Legal
13 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 120 (27.65%) Developer
2 99 (22.81%) Architect
3 92 (21.20%) Senior
4 88 (20.28%) 3D Developer
4 88 (20.28%) Games Developer
4 88 (20.28%) Unity 3D Developer
5 72 (16.59%) Software Engineer
6 69 (15.90%) Analyst
7 65 (14.98%) Solutions Architect
8 62 (14.29%) Business Analyst
9 32 (7.37%) Senior Analyst
10 31 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
11 30 (6.91%) Senior Developer
11 30 (6.91%) Senior Games Developer
12 28 (6.45%) Senior Business Analyst
13 19 (4.38%) Principal Engineer
14 15 (3.46%) Lead
15 14 (3.23%) Consultant
15 14 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (3.23%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (20.28%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 85 (19.59%) .NET
3 23 (5.30%) Web Services
4 21 (4.84%) .NET Framework
4 21 (4.84%) HTML
5 19 (4.38%) ASP.NET
6 18 (4.15%) LINQ
7 17 (3.92%) Node.js
8 16 (3.69%) REST
9 15 (3.46%) WinForms
10 14 (3.23%) Entity Framework
10 14 (3.23%) JSON
10 14 (3.23%) XML
11 11 (2.53%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.30%) Spring
13 9 (2.07%) FIX Protocol
13 9 (2.07%) HTML5
14 8 (1.84%) AngularJS
14 8 (1.84%) ASP.NET MVC
14 8 (1.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (20.28%) Virtual Reality
2 23 (5.30%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.00%) Algorithms
5 13 (3.00%) Embedded Systems
6 12 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.07%) PCIe
8 8 (1.84%) PMI
8 8 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.84%) Robotics
9 6 (1.38%) IoT
10 5 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.92%) GNSS
11 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.69%) Acoustics
12 3 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.46%) Derivative
13 2 (0.46%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.00%) Linux
2 11 (2.53%) Windows
3 3 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.46%) Android
4 2 (0.46%) CentOS
4 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.23%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (45.62%) Software Engineering
2 133 (30.65%) Scrum
3 127 (29.26%) Agile
4 120 (27.65%) Design Patterns
5 117 (26.96%) DevOps
6 105 (24.19%) Use Case
7 57 (13.13%) Analytics
7 57 (13.13%) ArchiMate
8 56 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (12.44%) TOGAF
10 52 (11.98%) Microservices
11 51 (11.75%) ITIL
12 50 (11.52%) Architectural Patterns
12 50 (11.52%) BPMN
13 49 (11.29%) Business Analysis
13 49 (11.29%) Business Case
14 46 (10.60%) Business Strategy
14 46 (10.60%) Data Analytics
14 46 (10.60%) Enterprise Architecture
14 46 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (34.56%) C#
2 69 (15.90%) C
3 51 (11.75%) C++
4 46 (10.60%) JavaScript
5 44 (10.14%) SQL
6 35 (8.06%) Java
7 31 (7.14%) Ada
8 30 (6.91%) MATLAB
9 15 (3.46%) Python
10 11 (2.53%) Delphi
11 7 (1.61%) Go
11 7 (1.61%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.15%) Bash
12 5 (1.15%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.15%) Fortran
13 4 (0.92%) VB
13 4 (0.92%) XAML
14 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 230 (53.00%) Security Cleared
2 223 (51.38%) Degree
3 176 (40.55%) SC Cleared
4 153 (35.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (7.37%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (2.53%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
7 7 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.69%) PMP
9 2 (0.46%) CBAP
9 2 (0.46%) CISM
9 2 (0.46%) CISSP
9 2 (0.46%) ISEB
10 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) MCSA
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 18 (4.15%) Def Stans
2 18 (4.15%) QA
3 12 (2.76%) IEC 61508
4 7 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.38%) ISO 9001
5 6 (1.38%) MISRA
6 5 (1.15%) PMO
6 5 (1.15%) TickIT
7 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.69%) DO-178B
8 3 (0.69%) ISO 9000
8 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.46%) GDPR
9 2 (0.46%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 33 (7.60%) Firmware
2 17 (3.92%) Docker
3 12 (2.76%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.23%) RACF
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.46%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.46%) Kibana
Vendors
1 146 (33.64%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.83%) Sparx
3 16 (3.69%) IBM
3 16 (3.69%) Oracle
4 8 (1.84%) Atlassian
5 4 (0.92%) ESRI
6 3 (0.69%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.46%) Adobe
7 2 (0.46%) Informatica
7 2 (0.46%) Interwoven
8 1 (0.23%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.23%) Coverity
8 1 (0.23%) EMC
8 1 (0.23%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.23%) Google
8 1 (0.23%) Klocwork
8 1 (0.23%) Marketo
8 1 (0.23%) mParticle
8 1 (0.23%) SAP
8 1 (0.23%) Thales