UML Contracts in the South West

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 131 131
Rank change year-on-year +31 0 +2
Contract jobs citing UML 12 23 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.71% 0.72% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.87% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 10
10th Percentile £508 - £350
25th Percentile £575 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £723
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -23.88% +37.62%
75th Percentile £688 £630 £739
90th Percentile - £738 £745
England median daily rate £520 £650 £540
% change year-on-year -20.00% +20.37% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile - - £47.82
25th Percentile £65.75 £67.13 £49.62
Median hourly rate £68.00 £67.25 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% +25.12% -10.42%
75th Percentile - £67.38 £62.28
90th Percentile - - £70.93
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,531 2,646 3,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.59% 83.13% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 1,688 2,322
10th Percentile £232 £219 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 342 325
10th Percentile £18.39 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.40
Median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +23.10%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.31
England median hourly rate £29.02 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% -0.85% +50.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for UML in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for UML in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UML in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for UML in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bristol +18 7 - - 24
Dorset -2 3 £675 +22.73% 3
Gloucestershire +18 1 - - 14
Somerset +3 1 £475 - 4
UML
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (66.67%) Ada Engineer
2 8 (66.67%) Ada Software Engineer
3 7 (58.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (58.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) JavaFX
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) SysML
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Wireframes
4 1 (8.33%) BPMN
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Front End Development
4 1 (8.33%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) OO
4 1 (8.33%) OOD
4 1 (8.33%) Signal Processing
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Ada
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) C++
3 1 (8.33%) Fortran
3 1 (8.33%) MATLAB
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Intel