UML Contracts in Scotland

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 114 117 158
Rank change year-on-year +3 +41 -4
Contract jobs citing UML 2 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.54% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.61% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile £429 - £420
25th Percentile £434 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £472 £700 £525
90th Percentile £481 £810 £570
UK median daily rate £510 £638 £541
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.78% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.03
25th Percentile - - £53.20
Median hourly rate - - £55.77
75th Percentile - - £57.71
90th Percentile - - £58.50
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -0.77% +13.04% -4.17%

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 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for UML in Scotland

UML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for UML in Scotland

UML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for UML in Scotland

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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 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
Edinburgh +3 1 £425 - 3
UML
UK

UML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Business Process Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Competitor Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Design Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland