UML Contracts in the North of England

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 181 209
Rank change year-on-year +27 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing UML 12 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.084% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.098% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile £378 £470 £410
25th Percentile £391 £481 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £488 £522 £576
90th Percentile £650 £539 £586
England median daily rate £545 £650 £540
% change year-on-year -16.15% +20.37% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.70
25th Percentile - - £37.73
Median hourly rate - - £40.59
75th Percentile - - £55.08
90th Percentile - - £62.05
England median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -0.77% +13.04% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for UML in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UML in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for UML in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UML in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UML in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for UML in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +18 5 £383 -23.40% 34
Yorkshire - 4 £525 - 33
North East - 3 £469 - 10
UML
England

UML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) SAS
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Misys Midas
1 2 (16.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Miro
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) ERwin
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Military
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Project Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (16.67%) FpML
1 2 (16.67%) JSON
1 2 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Swagger
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Reference Data
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) BPMN
4 3 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) User Stories
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Conceptual Models
5 2 (16.67%) Data Mapping
5 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Kanban
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) RDF
5 2 (16.67%) Sequence Diagram
5 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) MISRA
1 2 (16.67%) MISRA C
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) Sparx
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle