UML Contracts in the South East

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 157 160
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 +51
Contract jobs citing UML 29 47 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.88% 0.83% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.00% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 22
10th Percentile £340 £468 -
25th Percentile - £488 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -31.71% +5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £667
90th Percentile £628 £585 £734
England median daily rate £545 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -16.15% +23.81% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 20
10th Percentile £47.64 £54.85 £50.59
25th Percentile £50.27 £63.63 £55.90
Median hourly rate £56.75 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £64.32 - £71.90
90th Percentile £66.05 £71.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £67.14 £57.50
% change year-on-year -14.35% +16.76% -4.17%

All Process and 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,978 4,700 5,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.57% 82.75% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 2,737 3,584
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £623
90th Percentile £672 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 445 240
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.32 £22.11
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.81 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing UML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for UML in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UML in the South East.

Daily rate trend for UML in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in the South East over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UML in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UML in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for UML in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UML in the South East over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for UML in the South East

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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 6 July 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
Hampshire +22 15 - - 30
Thames Valley +28 8 £350 -47.47% 12
Berkshire +26 5 £350 -47.47% 3
Buckinghamshire - 3 £600 - 5
West Sussex +4 1 £475 -13.64% 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (20.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) AWS
1 1 (3.45%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Software-Defined Radio
2 6 (20.69%) SNMP
3 4 (13.79%) HTTPS
4 3 (10.34%) HTTP
5 1 (3.45%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Git
1 10 (34.48%) JIRA
2 6 (20.69%) GoogleTest
2 6 (20.69%) Robot Framework
3 5 (17.24%) Bitbucket
4 3 (10.34%) Eclipse
4 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.90%) ERwin
5 2 (6.90%) PowerDesigner
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Telecoms
3 5 (17.24%) Billing
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.45%) Finance
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Designer
1 5 (17.24%) Rust Engineer
1 5 (17.24%) Software Test Engineer
1 5 (17.24%) Solutions Designer
1 5 (17.24%) Systems Engineer
1 5 (17.24%) Test Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Data Modeller
4 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Operations Business Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) REST
1 9 (31.03%) Web Services
2 6 (20.69%) CSS
2 6 (20.69%) HTML
3 5 (17.24%) JSON
4 4 (13.79%) Hibernate
4 4 (13.79%) RESTful
4 4 (13.79%) Spring
4 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
5 3 (10.34%) Node.js
6 1 (3.45%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
2 5 (17.24%) Frameworx
2 5 (17.24%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (17.24%) TM Forum
3 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) Agile
2 15 (51.72%) Scrum
2 15 (51.72%) SysML
3 10 (34.48%) Test Automation
4 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 9 (31.03%) Microservices
5 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) Business Strategy
6 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
6 6 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (20.69%) Validation
6 6 (20.69%) Verification and Validation
7 5 (17.24%) CRM
7 5 (17.24%) Customer Experience
7 5 (17.24%) Customer Service
7 5 (17.24%) Service Delivery
7 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (13.79%) BPMN
8 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
8 4 (13.79%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Java
1 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
1 5 (17.24%) Rust
2 4 (13.79%) C++
2 4 (13.79%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Magik
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) HND
4 1 (3.45%) ISEB
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Salesforce
1 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
2 4 (13.79%) Atlassian
2 4 (13.79%) Google
3 3 (10.34%) Sparx
4 1 (3.45%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft