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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 283 267
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 +35
Contract jobs citing UML 58 116 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.56% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.67% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 52 74
10th Percentile £350 £400 £406
25th Percentile £362 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +0.48% +2.45%
75th Percentile £571 £575 £650
90th Percentile £600 £696 £745
UK median daily rate £510 £620 £550
% change year-on-year -17.74% +12.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 35 50
10th Percentile £46.75 £54.85 £51.13
25th Percentile £51.42 £56.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67.81 £70.00 £69.69
90th Percentile £81.25 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.35% +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 11,812 17,287 20,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.62% 83.43% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,347 10,277 13,944
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,126 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.41 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.43
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 29 £350 -30.00% 26
North of England +21 10 £400 -20.00% 20
West Midlands +9 7 £600 +19.90% 7
Midlands +5 7 £600 +39.42% 14
South West +24 5 £575 +4.55% 31
East of England +14 5 £375 -31.82% 5
North West +9 5 £383 -23.40% 14
North East +3 3 £469 - 1
Scotland -1 2 £450 -2.70% 5
Yorkshire - 2 £400 - 5
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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 10 (17.24%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.45%) SAS
3 1 (1.72%) Smallworld
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.72%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.62%) AWS
2 2 (3.45%) Azure
2 2 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (3.45%) GCP
2 2 (3.45%) GitHub
2 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.45%) SaaS
3 1 (1.72%) Miro
3 1 (1.72%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) Software-Defined Radio
2 7 (12.07%) SNMP
3 4 (6.90%) HTTPS
4 3 (5.17%) Ethernet
4 3 (5.17%) HTTP
5 1 (1.72%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.45%) Power BI
3 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) Big Data
4 1 (1.72%) GIS
4 1 (1.72%) Metadata
4 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (27.59%) JIRA
2 12 (20.69%) Git
3 7 (12.07%) Bitbucket
3 7 (12.07%) GoogleTest
3 7 (12.07%) Robot Framework
4 5 (8.62%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (6.90%) Eclipse
5 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
6 3 (5.17%) ERwin
7 2 (3.45%) Postman
7 2 (3.45%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.72%) Gradle
8 1 (1.72%) JUnit
8 1 (1.72%) Maven
8 1 (1.72%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.62%) Billing
5 4 (6.90%) Automotive
6 3 (5.17%) Aerospace
6 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Military
8 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (17.24%) Analyst
2 8 (13.79%) Business Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Designer
3 7 (12.07%) Software Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Solutions Designer
4 6 (10.34%) Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Embedded Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Software Test Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Test Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Rust Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Software Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Data Modeller
7 3 (5.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) Web Services
2 10 (17.24%) REST
3 7 (12.07%) CSS
3 7 (12.07%) HTML
4 5 (8.62%) JSON
4 5 (8.62%) Spring
5 4 (6.90%) Hibernate
5 4 (6.90%) RESTful
5 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.17%) Node.js
7 2 (3.45%) .NET
7 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.45%) JavaFX
7 2 (3.45%) Middleware
7 2 (3.45%) OpenAPI
8 1 (1.72%) JSF
8 1 (1.72%) Swagger
8 1 (1.72%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.62%) Frameworx
2 5 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (8.62%) TM Forum
3 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.17%) PCIe
5 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (63.79%) Agile
2 22 (37.93%) SysML
3 19 (32.76%) Scrum
4 15 (25.86%) Software Engineering
5 12 (20.69%) CI/CD
5 12 (20.69%) Microservices
5 12 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 11 (18.97%) Software Testing
7 9 (15.52%) BPMN
7 9 (15.52%) Business Strategy
7 9 (15.52%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (15.52%) Validation
8 8 (13.79%) Business Analysis
9 7 (12.07%) Verification and Validation
10 6 (10.34%) Prototyping
10 6 (10.34%) SDLC
10 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (10.34%) Use Case
11 5 (8.62%) Data Mapping
11 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) Java
2 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.34%) C++
4 5 (8.62%) Python
4 5 (8.62%) Rust
5 3 (5.17%) C
6 2 (3.45%) Ada
7 1 (1.72%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.72%) Magik
7 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) SC Cleared
1 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.97%) Degree
3 3 (5.17%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.72%) GDPR
1 1 (1.72%) MISRA
1 1 (1.72%) MISRA C
1 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Firmware
2 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Atlassian
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Google
2 5 (8.62%) Salesforce
2 5 (8.62%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.17%) Sparx
4 2 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.72%) Genesys
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle