RUP Contract Job Trends in London

Rational Unified Process (RUP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London 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 374 376 412
Rank change year-on-year +2 +36 +160
Contract jobs citing RUP 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.042% 0.013% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.015% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £343 £645 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £670 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% - -
75th Percentile - £695 -
90th Percentile £560 - -
England median daily rate £350 £670 £475
% change year-on-year -47.76% +41.05% -11.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,135 13,632 16,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.46% 90.03% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,766 12,134
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +4.71% -10.83%
75th Percentile £48.00 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

RUP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

RUP job vacancy trend in London

RUP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RUP

RUP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for RUP in London

RUP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RUP

RUP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (83.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
1 5 (83.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (16.67%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) DB2
1 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) TIBCO Developer
2 3 (50.00%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Product Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) J2EE
1 5 (83.33%) JMS
1 5 (83.33%) OC4J
1 5 (83.33%) SOAP
1 5 (83.33%) TIBCO EMS
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) WSDL
1 5 (83.33%) XML
1 5 (83.33%) XSD
1 5 (83.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Design Patterns
1 5 (83.33%) OOA/OOD
1 5 (83.33%) Resource Management
1 5 (83.33%) SOA
1 5 (83.33%) UML
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Revenue Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Traceability Matrix
2 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) XPath
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) BEA
1 5 (83.33%) IBM
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
1 5 (83.33%) TIBCO
2 1 (16.67%) Adaptive Insights
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Workday