UML Contracts in the UK excluding London

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 285 298
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing UML 68 115 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.55% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.65% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 59 71
10th Percentile £350 £400 £406
25th Percentile £377 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £647
90th Percentile £669 £700 £745
UK median daily rate £510 £638 £541
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.78% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 30 52
10th Percentile £46.20 £56.13 £50.13
25th Percentile £55.09 £56.56 £53.44
Median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £67.50 £67.81
90th Percentile £73.88 £70.00 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -0.77% +13.04% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing UML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for UML in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UML in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for UML in the UK excluding London

UML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UML in the UK excluding London

UML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UML in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for UML in the UK excluding London

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for UML in the UK excluding London

UML
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 UML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +28 30 £350 -33.33% 77
South West +34 14 £675 +22.73% 29
North of England +27 12 £400 -20.00% 28
East of England +24 7 £375 -31.82% 26
North West +18 5 £383 -23.40% 12
Midlands +14 5 £625 +73.61% 36
West Midlands +11 5 £625 +25.00% 22
Yorkshire - 4 £525 - 12
North East - 3 £469 - 4
Scotland +3 2 £450 -2.70% 9
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UK

UML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (19.12%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.94%) SAS
3 1 (1.47%) Smallworld
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.47%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.94%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.88%) AWS
2 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (2.94%) GitHub
2 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
2 2 (2.94%) SaaS
3 1 (1.47%) Azure
3 1 (1.47%) GCP
3 1 (1.47%) Miro
3 1 (1.47%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.59%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (13.24%) SNMP
3 3 (4.41%) Ethernet
3 3 (4.41%) HTTP
4 1 (1.47%) GPON
4 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.94%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) Big Data
4 1 (1.47%) GIS
4 1 (1.47%) Metadata
4 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (23.53%) JIRA
2 13 (19.12%) Git
3 10 (14.71%) Bitbucket
4 9 (13.24%) GoogleTest
4 9 (13.24%) Robot Framework
5 6 (8.82%) Eclipse
5 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
6 5 (7.35%) ERwin
6 5 (7.35%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (2.94%) MagicDraw
7 2 (2.94%) Postman
7 2 (2.94%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (2.94%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 11 (16.18%) Finance
1 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Telecoms
3 5 (7.35%) Billing
4 4 (5.88%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Military
5 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Aviation
6 1 (1.47%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Law
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 13 (19.12%) Embedded Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Ada Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Ada Software Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) Analyst
4 10 (14.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Business Analyst
5 7 (10.29%) Designer
5 7 (10.29%) Software Test Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Solutions Designer
5 7 (10.29%) Test Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Data Modeller
7 5 (7.35%) Rust Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Architect
9 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (4.41%) Firmware Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) CSS
1 9 (13.24%) HTML
2 8 (11.76%) Web Services
3 7 (10.29%) JSON
3 7 (10.29%) REST
4 3 (4.41%) Middleware
4 3 (4.41%) Node.js
5 2 (2.94%) .NET
5 2 (2.94%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.94%) FpML
5 2 (2.94%) JavaFX
5 2 (2.94%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.94%) XML
6 1 (1.47%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.47%) RESTful
6 1 (1.47%) Spring
6 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.35%) Frameworx
2 5 (7.35%) TM Forum
3 3 (4.41%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.41%) PCIe
3 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.41%) Verilog
3 3 (4.41%) VHDL
4 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.94%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (35.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (57.35%) Agile
2 35 (51.47%) SysML
3 26 (38.24%) Software Engineering
4 22 (32.35%) Scrum
5 14 (20.59%) Software Testing
6 11 (16.18%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.71%) Validation
8 9 (13.24%) Business Strategy
8 9 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (13.24%) Verification and Validation
9 8 (11.76%) BPMN
9 8 (11.76%) CI/CD
9 8 (11.76%) Data Modelling
9 8 (11.76%) Microservices
9 8 (11.76%) Prototyping
10 7 (10.29%) Business Analysis
10 7 (10.29%) SDLC
11 6 (8.82%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (8.82%) Use Case
12 5 (7.35%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.18%) Ada
2 10 (14.71%) C++
3 9 (13.24%) Python
4 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.35%) Rust
6 4 (5.88%) Java
6 4 (5.88%) SQL
7 3 (4.41%) C
7 3 (4.41%) SystemVerilog
7 3 (4.41%) Tcl
8 1 (1.47%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.47%) Fortran
8 1 (1.47%) Magik
8 1 (1.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (41.18%) SC Cleared
1 28 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.18%) Degree
3 3 (4.41%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.94%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) MISRA
1 2 (2.94%) MISRA C
2 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.47%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Firmware
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.94%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) Atlassian
2 7 (10.29%) Google
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) Sparx
3 5 (7.35%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.35%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.88%) IBM
5 3 (4.41%) Xilinx
6 2 (2.94%) PTC
7 1 (1.47%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.47%) Intel
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle
7 1 (1.47%) Twitter