UML Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring UML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing UML 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.46% 4.40% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 4.94% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £628 -
25th Percentile £525 £650 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £575 £688 £575
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 91 81 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 66.42% 89.01% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 44 88
10th Percentile £328 £265 £172
25th Percentile £375 £403 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £550 £597 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £825
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 48
10th Percentile £21.60 £14.78 £12.66
25th Percentile £22.00 £15.90 £14.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.63 £44.94
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% -51.88% -20.17%
75th Percentile £72.54 £56.88 £57.33
90th Percentile £74.68 £67.50 £65.98
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

UML job vacancy trend in Dorset

UML
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing UML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing UML

UML
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing UML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing UML

UML
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Dorchester 0 1 £550 -18.52% 2
UML
South West

UML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Compact Framework
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Android Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Xamarin