UML Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring UML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing UML 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.18% - 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -69.23%
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £750 - £200
% change year-on-year - - -69.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 316 211 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 74.35% 90.17% 77.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 152 170
10th Percentile £285 £188 £143
25th Percentile £363 £285 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -18.37% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £484 £563
90th Percentile £740 £648 £668
Wales median daily rate £450 £400 £490
% change year-on-year +12.50% -18.37% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 16 25
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.65 £11.39
25th Percentile £14.59 £15.75 £15.48
Median hourly rate £21.38 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.19% +11.55%
75th Percentile £47.63 £41.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £87.08
Wales median hourly rate £21.75 £25.15 £19.70
% change year-on-year -13.52% +27.65% +8.61%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

UML job vacancy trend in South Wales

UML
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing UML

UML
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing UML

UML
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Cardiff - 5 £750 - 2
UML
Wales

UML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Salesforce Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) WebSockets
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ArchiMate
1 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (60.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (60.00%) Impact Assessments
1 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (60.00%) Zachman Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) CQRS
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Sequence Diagram
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce