UML Contract Job Trends in the South East

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring UML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	209	150	151
Rank change year-on-year	-59	+1	+16
Contract jobs citing UML	19	20	30
As % of all contract jobs in the South East	0.29%	0.55%	0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.35%	0.62%	0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	13	8	6
10^th Percentile	£370	£436	£444
25^th Percentile	£431	£472	£491
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£459	£550	£500
Median % change year-on-year	-16.55%	+10.00%	-13.04%
75^th Percentile	£731	£556	£547
90^th Percentile	-	£575	£606
England median daily rate	£600	£550	£525
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	+4.76%	-10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	5	21
10^th Percentile	-	£52.00	£54.00
25^th Percentile	-	-	£57.54
Median hourly rate	£55.00	£55.00	£70.00
Median % change year-on-year	-	-21.43%	+16.67%
75^th Percentile	-	£60.25	-
90^th Percentile	£64.34	£62.35	-
England median hourly rate	£70.00	£65.00	£64.00
% change year-on-year	+7.69%	+1.56%	-1.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	5,408	3,222	3,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East	81.74%	88.61%	84.21%
Number of daily rates quoted	3,094	2,025	2,175
10^th Percentile	£275	£219	£260
25^th Percentile	£418	£393	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£510
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-1.96%	-2.86%
75^th Percentile	£623	£588	£625
90^th Percentile	£713	£650	£688
England median daily rate	£525	£510	£525
% change year-on-year	+2.94%	-2.86%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	726	335	183
10^th Percentile	£13.45	£13.35	£16.25
25^th Percentile	£16.52	£16.17	£30.00
Median hourly rate	£45.00	£20.71	£58.30
Median % change year-on-year	+117.29%	-64.48%	+11.05%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£36.62	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£88.20	£68.75	£75.00
England median hourly rate	£37.82	£25.15	£41.16
% change year-on-year	+50.38%	-38.89%	-7.52%

UML Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

UML Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

UML Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in the South East over the 6 months to 22 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for UML in the South East

UML Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

UML Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UML in the South East over the 6 months to 22 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for UML in the South East

UML Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 October 2026. 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
Hampshire	-35	11	£713	+25.55%	9
Buckinghamshire	-27	3	£438	+16.67%	5
Thames Valley	-43	3	£438	-20.45%	11
Surrey	-	3	£375	-	3
Isle of Wight	-	1	-	-	5
East Sussex	-	1	£459	-
UML England

UML Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing UML also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region with a requirement for UML.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	89.5%	17
2	Stakeholder Management	63.2%	12
3	Security Cleared	57.9%	11
4	BPMN	42.1%	8
4	JIRA	42.1%	8
4	Microservices	42.1%	8
4	SDLC	42.1%	8
8	Scrum	36.8%	7
8	Sprint Planning	36.8%	7
10	SC Cleared	31.6%	6
10	SysML	31.6%	6
12	CI/CD	26.3%	5
12	Customer Requirements	26.3%	5
12	Design Patterns	26.3%	5
12	DV Cleared	26.3%	5
12	Git	26.3%	5
12	Hibernate	26.3%	5
12	HTTPS	26.3%	5
12	Impact Assessments	26.3%	5
12	ISO/IEC 20000	26.3%	5
12	Issue Tracking	26.3%	5
12	ITIL	26.3%	5
12	ITSM	26.3%	5
12	Java	26.3%	5
12	PRINCE2	26.3%	5
12	Project Delivery	26.3%	5
12	RESTful	26.3%	5
12	Service Design	26.3%	5
12	Service Management	26.3%	5
12	SIAM	26.3%	5

UML Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	89.5%	17
2	Stakeholder Management	63.2%	12
3	BPMN	42.1%	8
3	Microservices	42.1%	8
3	SDLC	42.1%	8
6	Scrum	36.8%	7
6	Sprint Planning	36.8%	7
8	SysML	31.6%	6
9	CI/CD	26.3%	5
9	Customer Requirements	26.3%	5
9	Design Patterns	26.3%	5
9	Impact Assessments	26.3%	5
9	Issue Tracking	26.3%	5
9	ITIL	26.3%	5
9	ITSM	26.3%	5
9	PRINCE2	26.3%	5
9	Project Delivery	26.3%	5
9	Service Design	26.3%	5
9	Service Management	26.3%	5
9	SIAM	26.3%	5