UML Contracts in Manchester

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring UML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UML over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 86 104
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 +38
Contract jobs citing UML 7 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.70% 0.25% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.28% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £521 £445 £453
25th Percentile - £466 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -6.98% +29.91%
75th Percentile £725 £525 £575
90th Percentile £763 £540 -
North West median daily rate £650 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% +21.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.63
25th Percentile - - £62.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £63.75
75th Percentile - - £64.69
90th Percentile - - £64.88
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £40.33 £50.87
% change year-on-year +73.59% -20.72% -17.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 884 1,063 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.05% 86.92% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 687 1,184
10th Percentile £308 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 54 59
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.94 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.12 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +8.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.19 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £80.45 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £33.61 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.97% +1.83% +43.48%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for UML in Manchester

UML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for UML in Manchester

UML
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UML in Manchester

UML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for UML in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Cheadle - 2 £650 - 3
UML
North West

UML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) GCP Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JavaFX
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Licensing
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Software Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Security Hardening
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Sequence Diagram
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) C++
2 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CISM
2 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Podman
2 3 (42.86%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike