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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 145 149
Rank change year-on-year -66 +4 +17
Contract jobs citing UML 15 22 30
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.23% 0.62% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.70% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 9
10th Percentile £363 £368 £470
25th Percentile £431 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £700 £556 £563
90th Percentile £731 £575 £580
England median daily rate £600 £552 £525
% change year-on-year +8.70% +5.14% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 18
10th Percentile - £52.25 £53.10
25th Percentile - £55.00 £55.35
Median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -19.64% +1.82%
75th Percentile - £59.88 -
90th Percentile - £63.88 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.44% -13.46% -

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,301 3,165 3,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.71% 89.10% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,128 1,975 2,184
10th Percentile £279 £215 £255
25th Percentile £420 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.49%
75th Percentile £617 £588 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 650 316 211
10th Percentile £13.44 £13.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.34 £16.10 £30.21
Median hourly rate £47.77 £22.35 £58.38
Median % change year-on-year +113.78% -61.72% +7.37%
75th Percentile £69.69 £49.06 £70.84
90th Percentile £87.84 £69.20 £78.75
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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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 job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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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 1 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for UML in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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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 1 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 -32 9 £713 +25.55% 11
Buckinghamshire -23 3 £438 +16.67% 2
Thames Valley -48 3 £438 -20.45% 19
Surrey - 2 £375 - 1
East Sussex - 1 £459 - 1
UML
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (13.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (6.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) Git
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Service Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Digital Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Payments Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
1 4 (26.67%) RESTful
1 4 (26.67%) Spring
1 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
1 4 (26.67%) Web Services
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
3 1 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 10 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (46.67%) Microservices
4 6 (40.00%) BPMN
4 6 (40.00%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) SDLC
4 6 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
5 5 (33.33%) SysML
5 5 (33.33%) Validation
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (26.67%) Issue Tracking
6 4 (26.67%) ITIL
6 4 (26.67%) ITSM
6 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
6 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) Service Design
6 4 (26.67%) Service Management
6 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (13.33%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Sparx