UML Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring UML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 117 136
Rank change year-on-year +14 +19 +26
Contract jobs citing UML 12 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.76% 0.12% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.13% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £408 £468 £491
25th Percentile £411 £523 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £631 £700
Median % change year-on-year -30.69% -9.82% +60.92%
75th Percentile £548 £723 £706
90th Percentile £680 £769 £718
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £55.13 - £57.96
25th Percentile £57.19 - £58.65
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £59.52
75th Percentile £69.69 - £65.31
90th Percentile £71.38 - £70.38
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +2.31% +8.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,382 1,501 2,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.08% 87.88% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 873 1,372
10th Percentile £235 £213 £250
25th Percentile £388 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £499
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.59% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 52
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.77 £16.23
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £21.44
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +7.01% +18.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £57.06
90th Percentile £52.05 £31.44 £72.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -23.79% -23.99% +24.04%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

UML job vacancy trend in Scotland

UML
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing UML

UML
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UML in Scotland

UML
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing UML

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UML in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for UML in Scotland

UML
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +11 10 £431 -6.76% 5
Glasgow - 1 £425 - 1
UML
UK

UML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) ER Studio
1 4 (33.33%) ERwin
1 4 (33.33%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Modeller
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) XML
1 1 (8.33%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
2 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 4 (33.33%) Coaching
3 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 4 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Use Case
5 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) OO
5 2 (16.67%) OOD
5 2 (16.67%) Prototyping
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Wireframes
6 1 (8.33%) ITIL
6 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) C++
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) MISRA
1 2 (16.67%) MISRA C
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft