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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 134 122
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 +72
Contract jobs citing UML 7 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.24% 0.11% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.14% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile - - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £600
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £615
England median daily rate £550 £525 £580
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% +0.87%

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 2,586 2,216 2,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.33% 83.62% 84.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 1,388 1,602
10th Percentile £250 £260 £250
25th Percentile £367 £375 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 69 109
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.69 £14.46
25th Percentile £17.64 £17.00 £17.71
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -12.73% +61.76%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £39.07 £53.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

UML job vacancy trend 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 3 November 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 -24 4 - - 3
East Midlands - 3 £800 - 7
UML
England

UML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Software Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Chief Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Chief Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ArchiMate
1 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Architecture Governance
2 3 (42.86%) BPMN
2 3 (42.86%) Business Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Service Design
2 3 (42.86%) Service Management
2 3 (42.86%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
3 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) UX Design
3 1 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO 9001
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Denodo
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle