UML Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring UML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 124 133
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +54
Contract jobs citing UML 7 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.35% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £599 - £574
25th Percentile £599 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £600
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £600 - £615
England median daily rate £551 £560 £588
% change year-on-year -1.61% -4.68% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,331 2,255 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.80% 82.30% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,512 1,440 1,715
10th Percentile £235 £255 £250
25th Percentile £360 £377 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 73 96
10th Percentile £13.56 £12.90 £13.08
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.39 £21.59 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -21.49% +52.78%
75th Percentile £26.51 £42.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £45.80 £55.00 £68.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for UML in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing UML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing UML

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing UML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing UML

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
West Midlands -5 7 £600 - 1
UML
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Automotive
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Software Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Designer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) ArchiMate
2 2 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Domain Models
2 2 (28.57%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Sequence Diagram
2 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft