UML Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 267 285 387
Rank change year-on-year +18 +102 +8
Contract jobs citing UML 37 60 90
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.45% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 45 50
10th Percentile - £456 £406
25th Percentile £350 £488 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -5.17% +10.48%
75th Percentile £599 £738 £725
90th Percentile £649 £840 £789
UK median daily rate £510 £638 £541
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.78% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 20
10th Percentile £44.51 £56.62 £57.10
25th Percentile £48.99 £59.06 £61.57
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.79 £68.35
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% -0.82% +13.91%
75th Percentile £68.63 £71.23 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.96 -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

UML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing UML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

UML trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

UML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing UML.

UML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

UML
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing UML over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

UML daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

UML
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing UML.

UML hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing UML over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

UML hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

UML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (16.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Misys Midas
1 2 (5.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) AWS
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (8.11%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (8.11%) AWS KMS
2 3 (8.11%) IaaS
2 3 (8.11%) PaaS
2 3 (8.11%) Route 53
2 3 (8.11%) SaaS
2 3 (8.11%) Serverless
3 2 (5.41%) Apigee
3 2 (5.41%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.70%) npm
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (8.11%) IPsec
2 3 (8.11%) Kerberos
2 3 (8.11%) SNMP
2 3 (8.11%) SSL
3 1 (2.70%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.70%) HTTP
3 1 (2.70%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) Big Data
4 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Metadata
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
2 3 (8.11%) Eclipse
2 3 (8.11%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) GitLab
2 3 (8.11%) GoogleTest
2 3 (8.11%) Maven
2 3 (8.11%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (8.11%) Robot Framework
3 2 (5.41%) ERwin
4 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) MagicDraw
4 1 (2.70%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Billing
3 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Military
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Electronics
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Business Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Rust Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Technical Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Designer
4 4 (10.81%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Solutions Designer
5 3 (8.11%) Software Test Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Modeller
6 2 (5.41%) Integration Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Product Owner
6 2 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) KYC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) Web Services
2 7 (18.92%) REST
3 5 (13.51%) JSON
4 4 (10.81%) Node.js
5 3 (8.11%) CSS
5 3 (8.11%) HTML
5 3 (8.11%) OAuth
5 3 (8.11%) OAuth2
5 3 (8.11%) OpenID
5 3 (8.11%) SAML
5 3 (8.11%) Spring
5 3 (8.11%) Spring Boot
5 3 (8.11%) XACML
6 1 (2.70%) .NET
6 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.70%) FpML
6 1 (2.70%) Kafka
6 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.81%) Frameworx
2 4 (10.81%) TM Forum
3 3 (8.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.41%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) PCIe
5 1 (2.70%) PMI
5 1 (2.70%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) Agile
2 11 (29.73%) Software Engineering
3 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.03%) Microservices
3 10 (27.03%) Scrum
4 9 (24.32%) SysML
5 7 (18.92%) DevOps
5 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
6 6 (16.22%) BPMN
6 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (16.22%) Prototyping
6 6 (16.22%) Software Testing
6 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (13.51%) Business Strategy
7 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
7 5 (13.51%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (13.51%) SOA
7 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (10.81%) Customer Experience
8 4 (10.81%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.51%) C++
3 5 (13.51%) Rust
4 4 (10.81%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) Python
6 1 (2.70%) C
6 1 (2.70%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) CSPO
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.70%) VCAP
4 1 (2.70%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) GDPR
1 2 (5.41%) MISRA
1 2 (5.41%) MISRA C
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
1 3 (8.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Ansible
1 3 (8.11%) Packer
1 3 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Atlassian
1 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.11%) Google
3 3 (8.11%) IBM
4 2 (5.41%) Ariba
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) Sparx
5 1 (2.70%) Dell
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Progress
5 1 (2.70%) PTC
5 1 (2.70%) VMware