UML Contracts in the City of London

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring UML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 120 159
Rank change year-on-year +7 +39 +15
Contract jobs citing UML 6 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.32% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.35% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 11
10th Percentile £442 £694 £461
25th Percentile £518 £816 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £900 £585
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% +53.85% -0.43%
75th Percentile £695 £925 £638
90th Percentile - - £763
Central London median daily rate £670 £900 £585
% change year-on-year -25.56% +53.85% -0.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

UML falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for UML in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UML in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for UML in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UML in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UML in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for UML in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) SAS
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Business IT Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) IT Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Architect
4 1 (16.67%) UML Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Equities
1 2 (33.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 3 (50.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) BPMN
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) RUP
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) ArchiMate
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
4 1 (16.67%) DataOps
4 1 (16.67%) Journey Map
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Progress