UML Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring UML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 112 133
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 +33
Contract jobs citing UML 10 9 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.57% 0.43% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.47% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 11
10th Percentile £375 £413 £520
25th Percentile £469 £513 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £875 £670
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +30.60% +19.11%
75th Percentile £592 £944 £769
90th Percentile £700 £963 £913
Central London median daily rate £575 £875 £670
% change year-on-year -34.29% +30.60% +21.82%

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 1,644 1,914 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.36% 91.67% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,173 1,733
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £782 £812
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

UML job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing UML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing UML

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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 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UML in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing UML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing UML

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) DataStage
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Process Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) EDI
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Use Case
2 3 (30.00%) User Stories
3 2 (20.00%) BPMN
3 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) System Testing
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Data Design
4 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Blue Prism
2 1 (10.00%) Guidewire
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Palantir
2 1 (10.00%) Sparx
2 1 (10.00%) UiPath