RUP Contract Job Trends in England

Rational Unified Process (RUP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RUP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 501 563
Rank change year-on-year -34 +62 +102
Contract jobs citing RUP 8 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.026% 0.017% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.019% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £344 £645 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £670 £475
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +41.05% -11.21%
75th Percentile £369 £695 £488
90th Percentile £538 - -
UK median daily rate £350 £416 £475
% change year-on-year -15.91% -12.37% -11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

RUP 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,858 25,665 33,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.92% 88.40% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,750 15,857 22,569
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,813 863 1,402
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.34 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

RUP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

RUP job vacancy trend in England

RUP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RUP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RUP

RUP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RUP in England over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RUP in England

RUP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RUP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RUP

RUP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RUP within the England region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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
London +2 6 £350 -47.76% 2
Midlands - 1 - -
South East - 1 £375 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
RUP
UK

RUP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (62.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 5 (62.50%) WebLogic
1 5 (62.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (62.50%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (12.50%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) DB2
1 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) TIBCO Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Procurement Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Procurement Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Product Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) J2EE
1 5 (62.50%) JMS
1 5 (62.50%) OC4J
1 5 (62.50%) SOAP
1 5 (62.50%) TIBCO EMS
1 5 (62.50%) Web Services
1 5 (62.50%) WSDL
1 5 (62.50%) XML
1 5 (62.50%) XSD
1 5 (62.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) UML
2 5 (62.50%) Design Patterns
2 5 (62.50%) OOA/OOD
2 5 (62.50%) Resource Management
2 5 (62.50%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Revenue Management
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) TIBCO
2 5 (62.50%) BEA
2 5 (62.50%) IBM
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Adaptive Insights
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) webMethods
3 1 (12.50%) Workday