UML Contracts in England

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for UML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UML over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 404 427
Rank change year-on-year +46 +23 -98
Contract jobs citing UML 189 245 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.52% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.57% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 130 273
10th Percentile £437 £406 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £541 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -5.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £850 £684 £688
90th Percentile £925 £764 £840
UK median daily rate £620 £563 £570
% change year-on-year +10.22% -1.32% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 49 43
10th Percentile £54.85 £49.55 £46.72
25th Percentile £56.56 £53.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.01 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.80% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £63.50
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.00 £67.51
UK median hourly rate £66.01 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.80% -4.17% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

UML is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing UML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for UML in England

UML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UML in England.

Daily rate trend for UML in England

UML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UML in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UML in England.

Hourly rate trend for UML in England

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UML in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UML in England

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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 UML within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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 +80 81 £825 +41.03% 15
South East -1 47 £500 +5.26% 11
South West -1 25 £550 -23.88% 23
Midlands +28 15 £430 -28.33% 7
East of England -18 15 £550 -8.33% 4
West Midlands +18 11 £500 -16.67% 3
North of England +23 7 £500 -4.76% 15
North West +17 6 £500 -4.76% 14
East Midlands - 4 £360 - 4
North East - 1 - -
UML
UK

UML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (14.81%) Confluence
2 14 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.53%) Camunda
3 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) JBoss
3 1 (0.53%) LiveLink
Applications
1 22 (11.64%) MS Visio
2 10 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.70%) Simulink
4 5 (2.65%) Stateflow
4 5 (2.65%) TargetLink
5 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.53%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 29 (15.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (3.17%) ION MarketView
3 3 (1.59%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.52%) Azure
2 15 (7.94%) AWS
3 12 (6.35%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.12%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.12%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.59%) Lucidchart
7 2 (1.06%) SaaS
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.53%) GCP
8 1 (0.53%) IaaS
8 1 (0.53%) OCI
8 1 (0.53%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.53%) PaaS
8 1 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.99%) SNMP
1 17 (8.99%) Software-Defined Radio
2 10 (5.29%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (2.65%) WAN
4 2 (1.06%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.53%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.53%) Internet
5 1 (0.53%) IPsec
5 1 (0.53%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.53%) MQTT
5 1 (0.53%) RS-232
5 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (23.81%) NoSQL
2 42 (22.22%) Data Vault
2 42 (22.22%) Metadata
3 29 (15.34%) Metadata Repository
4 16 (8.47%) SQL Server
5 12 (6.35%) Power BI
6 8 (4.23%) Pentaho
6 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.23%) Qlik Sense
6 8 (4.23%) QlikView
6 8 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.12%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (2.12%) MySQL
8 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (17.99%) Git
1 34 (17.99%) JIRA
2 22 (11.64%) Bitbucket
3 18 (9.52%) Eclipse
3 18 (9.52%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (8.47%) GoogleTest
4 16 (8.47%) Robot Framework
5 15 (7.94%) Rational Rhapsody
6 10 (5.29%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.70%) Visual Studio
8 5 (2.65%) Jenkins
8 5 (2.65%) Subversion
9 1 (0.53%) GitLab
9 1 (0.53%) Gradle
9 1 (0.53%) MagicDraw
9 1 (0.53%) Maven
9 1 (0.53%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.53%) Postman
9 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (21.16%) Finance
2 34 (17.99%) Electronics
3 29 (15.34%) Marketing
4 26 (13.76%) Public Sector
5 22 (11.64%) Manufacturing
5 22 (11.64%) Telecoms
6 18 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (8.99%) Social Skills
8 16 (8.47%) Aerospace
9 13 (6.88%) Publishing
10 10 (5.29%) Front Office
11 8 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (3.70%) Billing
13 6 (3.17%) Automotive
14 5 (2.65%) Banking
14 5 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (2.12%) Military
16 3 (1.59%) Legal
17 2 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 62 (32.80%) Architect
2 43 (22.75%) Software Engineer
3 40 (21.16%) Data Architect
4 30 (15.87%) Business Analyst
5 27 (14.29%) Analyst
6 24 (12.70%) Chief Architect
6 24 (12.70%) Chief Data Architect
7 22 (11.64%) Developer
8 20 (10.58%) Senior
9 18 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
10 17 (8.99%) C++ Software Engineer
11 15 (7.94%) Embedded Engineer
11 15 (7.94%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 11 (5.82%) Ada Engineer
12 11 (5.82%) Ada Software Engineer
12 11 (5.82%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 10 (5.29%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
13 10 (5.29%) Enterprise Architect
13 10 (5.29%) Front Office Business Analyst
13 10 (5.29%) Head of Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.64%) XML
2 18 (9.52%) CSS
2 18 (9.52%) HTML
3 15 (7.94%) Web Services
4 12 (6.35%) .NET
5 10 (5.29%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (3.70%) .NET Framework
7 6 (3.17%) JSON
8 5 (2.65%) Blazor
8 5 (2.65%) Entity Framework
8 5 (2.65%) REST
9 4 (2.12%) SOAP
9 4 (2.12%) XSLT
10 3 (1.59%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.59%) Razor View Engine
10 3 (1.59%) RESTful
10 3 (1.59%) WCF
10 3 (1.59%) WPF
11 2 (1.06%) Node.js
11 2 (1.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.52%) Reference Data
2 12 (6.35%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.29%) Derivative
3 10 (5.29%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.17%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.17%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.65%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.59%) Device Driver
7 3 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.06%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.06%) NHS
9 1 (0.53%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.53%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.53%) PCIe
9 1 (0.53%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.29%) Linux
2 25 (13.23%) Windows
3 18 (9.52%) Unix
4 3 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.53%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.45%) Data Modelling
2 60 (31.75%) Software Engineering
3 49 (25.93%) Agile
4 44 (23.28%) Data Architecture
5 41 (21.69%) SysML
6 36 (19.05%) Validation
7 33 (17.46%) Systems Engineering
8 30 (15.87%) Data Integration
9 29 (15.34%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (15.34%) Data Design
10 26 (13.76%) Scrum
11 25 (13.23%) Data Governance
11 25 (13.23%) Verification and Validation
12 24 (12.70%) Data Strategy
13 23 (12.17%) Business Strategy
14 21 (11.11%) ArchiMate
14 21 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
14 21 (11.11%) Programme Management
15 20 (10.58%) Enterprise Architecture
15 20 (10.58%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.52%) C++
2 25 (13.23%) SQL
3 24 (12.70%) JavaScript
4 23 (12.17%) C
5 16 (8.47%) C#
6 14 (7.41%) Java
7 11 (5.82%) Ada
8 8 (4.23%) Python
8 8 (4.23%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.70%) MATLAB
10 5 (2.65%) Perl
11 4 (2.12%) Bash
12 2 (1.06%) C++/CLI
13 1 (0.53%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.53%) XAML
Qualifications
1 60 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 51 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 45 (23.81%) Degree
4 20 (10.58%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.06%) CBAP
8 2 (1.06%) IIBA
8 2 (1.06%) ISEB
9 1 (0.53%) APMP
9 1 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.53%) HND
9 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.88%) MISRA
1 13 (6.88%) QA
2 9 (4.76%) MISRA C
3 7 (3.70%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.17%) Dodd-Frank
4 6 (3.17%) EMIR
4 6 (3.17%) MiFID
5 5 (2.65%) AUTOSAR
5 5 (2.65%) ISO 26262
5 5 (2.65%) NCSC
6 4 (2.12%) DO-178B
7 3 (1.59%) Def Stans
7 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (1.06%) IEC 61508
8 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (13.23%) Firmware
2 2 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.53%) Kibana
2 1 (0.53%) logstash
2 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (16.93%) Sparx
2 23 (12.17%) SAP
3 19 (10.05%) Atlassian
4 16 (8.47%) Google
4 16 (8.47%) Oracle
5 14 (7.41%) Microsoft
6 13 (6.88%) IBM
7 11 (5.82%) ION Trading
8 10 (5.29%) Bloomberg
8 10 (5.29%) MarketAxess
8 10 (5.29%) Tradeweb
9 8 (4.23%) Informatica
9 8 (4.23%) ServiceNow
10 7 (3.70%) Guidewire
11 5 (2.65%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.53%) Calypso
13 1 (0.53%) Charles River
13 1 (0.53%) Murex
13 1 (0.53%) Twitter