UML Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring UML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 90 90
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -1
Contract jobs citing UML 15 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.68% 0.31% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.35% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £514 - £566
25th Percentile £516 - £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.31%
75th Percentile £566 - £691
90th Percentile £571 - £719
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile - £39.59 -
25th Percentile - £67.18 £62.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +30.77% -
75th Percentile £77.00 £88.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.40 £89.25 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.54% -12.12% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,733 1,147 1,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.24% 89.12% 82.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 504 475
10th Percentile £190 £200 £195
25th Percentile £384 £374 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £591 £580 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 297 421
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.82 £14.56
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.55 £15.62
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -24.05% +99.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

UML job vacancy trend in the East of England

UML
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing UML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing UML

UML
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing UML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing UML

UML
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Hertfordshire -9 11 £538 - 2
Bedfordshire - 2 - - 1
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 1
UML
England

UML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Ethernet
1 9 (60.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 9 (60.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (13.33%) VectorCAST
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 4 (26.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Billing
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) DSP Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) DSP Software Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Radio Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
4 2 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
4 2 (13.33%) C# WPF Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) WPF Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Ada Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Ada Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (13.33%) Entity Framework
1 2 (13.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
1 2 (13.33%) Silverlight
1 2 (13.33%) WCF
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
1 2 (13.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) FPGA
1 9 (60.00%) PCIe
2 5 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) FreeRTOS
2 2 (13.33%) VxWorks
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Software Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 9 (60.00%) Signal Processing
2 9 (60.00%) SysML
3 6 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 4 (26.67%) Integration Testing
5 4 (26.67%) System Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (20.00%) OO
6 3 (20.00%) Scrum
7 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
7 2 (13.33%) MVC
7 2 (13.33%) Physics
7 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) C
2 4 (26.67%) Embedded C
3 2 (13.33%) Ada
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) XAML
4 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (13.33%) PhD
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) DO-178B
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes