UML Contract Job Trends in Wales

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 46 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing UML 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.90% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% - 0.34%
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 - - -
UK median daily rate £630 £510 £620
% change year-on-year +23.53% -17.74% +12.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 417 253 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 74.87% 88.46% 75.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 176 190
10th Percentile £289 £186 £143
25th Percentile £370 £285 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -18.37% +3.16%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £560
90th Percentile £675 £625 £668
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 23 34
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.46 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.59 £16.00 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.75 £25.15 £19.70
Median % change year-on-year -13.52% +27.65% +8.61%
75th Percentile £36.78 £35.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £53.88 £44.25 £85.70
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

UML job vacancy trend in Wales

UML
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing UML

UML
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing UML

UML
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Wales - 5 £750 - 4
UML
UK

UML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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