Rational Rhapsody Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM Rational Rhapsody
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Rational Rhapsody skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 345 378
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 +116
Contract jobs citing Rational Rhapsody 14 24 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.58% 1.11% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £260
25th Percentile - - £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £222 - £426
75th Percentile - - £519
90th Percentile - - £575
UK median daily rate £222 - £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 19
10th Percentile £57.50 - £63.50
25th Percentile £62.19 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +14.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.00 £69.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £67.80 £69.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +14.32%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Rational Rhapsody falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,434 2,163 2,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.17% 12.57% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,648 1,265 1,811
10th Percentile £313 £338 £356
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -3.43% -2.86%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £600
90th Percentile £638 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 150 205
10th Percentile £16.84 £46.01 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.94 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.84%

Rational Rhapsody
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rational Rhapsody relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Rational Rhapsody job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Rational Rhapsody
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Rational Rhapsody.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Rational Rhapsody

Rational Rhapsody
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Rational Rhapsody.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Rational Rhapsody

Rational Rhapsody
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Rational Rhapsody in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Rational Rhapsody in the UK excluding London

Rational Rhapsody
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rational Rhapsody within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
South West +2 5 £222 - 36
Scotland - 4 - - 2
East of England - 4 - - 14
North West -14 1 - - 1
North of England -33 1 - - 1
Rational Rhapsody
UK

Rational Rhapsody
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (28.57%) Simulink
1 4 (28.57%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) SAP PLM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (35.71%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
4 2 (14.29%) GitLab
5 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
5 1 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (7.14%) Gradle
5 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.14%) JUnit
5 1 (7.14%) Maven
5 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Law
2 3 (21.43%) Aerospace
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Electronics
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Software Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) RF Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) FHIR
1 1 (7.14%) JavaFX
1 1 (7.14%) ODBC
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Swing
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
1 1 (7.14%) XML
1 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) CUDA
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Software Engineering
1 9 (64.29%) UML
2 4 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (28.57%) Integration Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) PLM
2 4 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) OO
4 2 (14.29%) OOD
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) Budget Management
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) C++
2 5 (35.71%) MATLAB
3 3 (21.43%) C
4 2 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Embedded C++
5 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) MISRA
1 2 (14.29%) MISRA C
2 1 (7.14%) DICOM
2 1 (7.14%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) SAP
2 4 (28.57%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA