UML Contract Job Trends in London

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring UML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 342 308
Rank change year-on-year +4 -34 +81
Contract jobs citing UML 43 35 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.22% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.25% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 76
10th Percentile £343 £363 £500
25th Percentile £428 £513 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +6.84%
75th Percentile £655 £788 £675
90th Percentile £729 £925 £753
England median daily rate £550 £614 £588
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.51% +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.50 - -
Median hourly rate £66.00 - -
75th Percentile £66.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +2.31% +5.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

UML job vacancy trend in London

UML
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing UML

UML
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UML in London

UML
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing UML

UML
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +2 6 £519 -22.57% 3
South London - 3 £850 - 1
East London - 1 £540 -
UML
England

UML
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 (11.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 5 (11.63%) WebLogic
1 5 (11.63%) WebSphere
2 3 (6.98%) CMS
3 2 (4.65%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (11.63%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.33%) Maximo
3 1 (2.33%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.30%) AWS
2 2 (4.65%) Azure
2 2 (4.65%) SaaS
3 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub
3 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.33%) Serverless
3 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
2 2 (4.65%) SNMP
2 2 (4.65%) WAN
3 1 (2.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
1 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) DB2
2 5 (11.63%) Metadata
3 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
4 2 (4.65%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) DataStage
5 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.33%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.33%) Power BI
5 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.33%) Tableau
5 1 (2.33%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Eclipse
2 3 (6.98%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) Gradle
2 3 (6.98%) IntelliJ
2 3 (6.98%) Maven
3 2 (4.65%) ERwin
3 2 (4.65%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) JMeter
4 1 (2.33%) NeoLoad
4 1 (2.33%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) SoapUI
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
3 6 (13.95%) Finance
4 5 (11.63%) Front Office
5 3 (6.98%) Back Office
5 3 (6.98%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Developer
2 11 (25.58%) Analyst
2 11 (25.58%) Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Business Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
4 5 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.63%) TIBCO Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Data Integration Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Integration Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) Lead Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) XML
2 6 (13.95%) J2EE
2 6 (13.95%) JMS
2 6 (13.95%) Web Services
2 6 (13.95%) XSLT
3 5 (11.63%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (11.63%) JSON
3 5 (11.63%) OC4J
3 5 (11.63%) SOAP
3 5 (11.63%) TIBCO EMS
3 5 (11.63%) WSDL
3 5 (11.63%) XSD
4 2 (4.65%) CSS
4 2 (4.65%) HTML
4 2 (4.65%) REST
5 1 (2.33%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (2.33%) React
5 1 (2.33%) Sass
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Batch
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (9.30%) Derivative
2 4 (9.30%) Equities
2 4 (9.30%) TWAP
2 4 (9.30%) VWAP
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.98%) Contract for Difference
3 3 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.65%) Wiki
5 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.33%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.33%) TM Forum
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Agile
2 14 (32.56%) Design Patterns
3 10 (23.26%) Data Modelling
4 7 (16.28%) Migration
5 6 (13.95%) BPMN
5 6 (13.95%) DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.95%) TDD
5 6 (13.95%) User Stories
6 5 (11.63%) Algorithmic Trading
6 5 (11.63%) Garbage Collection
6 5 (11.63%) Logical Data Model
6 5 (11.63%) Low Latency
6 5 (11.63%) Microservices
6 5 (11.63%) Multithreading
6 5 (11.63%) OOA/OOD
6 5 (11.63%) Physical Data Model
6 5 (11.63%) Quantitative Trading
6 5 (11.63%) Resource Management
6 5 (11.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) Java
2 6 (13.95%) SQL
3 5 (11.63%) XPath
4 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) PHP
5 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Python
5 1 (2.33%) Rust
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) DV Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) CISM
4 1 (2.33%) CISSP
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (2.33%) Kibana
2 1 (2.33%) logstash
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle
1 9 (20.93%) Sparx
2 7 (16.28%) IBM
3 5 (11.63%) BEA
3 5 (11.63%) TIBCO
4 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.98%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.33%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.33%) Citrix
6 1 (2.33%) Databricks
6 1 (2.33%) Palantir