UML Contracts with Work from Home Options

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for UML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UML over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 382 382
Rank change year-on-year +95 0 -25
Contract jobs citing UML 59 89 252
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.35% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.39% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 49 185
10th Percentile £456 £406 £413
25th Percentile £488 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £653
90th Percentile £843 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £638 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +18.06% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 20 18
10th Percentile £56.62 £57.10 £45.88
25th Percentile £59.06 £61.57 -
Median hourly rate £67.79 £68.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% +13.91% +3.45%
75th Percentile £71.23 £75.00 £65.53
90th Percentile £71.96 - £65.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

UML is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

UML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing UML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

UML trend for jobs with a WFH option

UML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing UML over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing UML.

UML hourly rate 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 9 (15.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) JBoss
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.69%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (6.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.69%) CATIA
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Loan IQ
2 2 (3.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.78%) Lucidchart
2 3 (5.08%) Azure
3 2 (3.39%) AWS
3 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Storage
4 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.69%) OCI
4 1 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) FIX Connectivity
1 4 (6.78%) WAN
2 2 (3.39%) SNMP
2 2 (3.39%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (1.69%) MQTT
3 1 (1.69%) NFC
3 1 (1.69%) PPP
3 1 (1.69%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.69%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.69%) Metadata
2 1 (1.69%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) JIRA
2 7 (11.86%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (10.17%) Git
4 4 (6.78%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.08%) Eclipse
5 3 (5.08%) GoogleTest
5 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.39%) JUnit
6 2 (3.39%) Robot Framework
6 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.69%) Balsamiq
7 1 (1.69%) Maven
7 1 (1.69%) Subversion
7 1 (1.69%) TestRail
7 1 (1.69%) Valgrind
General
1 13 (22.03%) Finance
2 11 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (13.56%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.17%) Billing
5 6 (10.17%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (10.17%) Marketing
6 4 (6.78%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.78%) Front Office
7 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.69%) Automotive
8 1 (1.69%) Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (28.81%) Business Analyst
2 15 (25.42%) Architect
3 14 (23.73%) Analyst
4 13 (22.03%) Senior
5 9 (15.25%) Lead
6 8 (13.56%) Developer
7 7 (11.86%) Software Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Billing Developer
8 6 (10.17%) DOORS Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Lead Developer
8 6 (10.17%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Software Integration Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Front Office Business Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Web Services
1 7 (11.86%) XML
2 4 (6.78%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (5.08%) .NET
3 3 (5.08%) Apache Camel
3 3 (5.08%) REST
4 2 (3.39%) CSS
4 2 (3.39%) HTML
4 2 (3.39%) JSON
5 1 (1.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.69%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.69%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.69%) JPA
5 1 (1.69%) JSTL
5 1 (1.69%) Spring
5 1 (1.69%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.69%) WinForms
5 1 (1.69%) WPF
5 1 (1.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Derivative
1 4 (6.78%) Fixed Income
2 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.69%) NHS
4 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.69%) SCADA
4 1 (1.69%) Smartcard
4 1 (1.69%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.73%) Windows
2 11 (18.64%) Unix
3 9 (15.25%) Linux
4 2 (3.39%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.20%) Data Modelling
2 17 (28.81%) Agile
3 15 (25.42%) ArchiMate
3 15 (25.42%) Business Analysis
4 12 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (20.34%) Systems Engineering
5 11 (18.64%) Customer Requirements
6 10 (16.95%) Risk Management
6 10 (16.95%) Scrum
7 9 (15.25%) ITIL
7 9 (15.25%) Software Engineering
7 9 (15.25%) SysML
8 8 (13.56%) BPMN
8 8 (13.56%) Process Improvement
8 8 (13.56%) Project Management
8 8 (13.56%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (13.56%) Requirements Management
8 8 (13.56%) Validation
8 8 (13.56%) Verification and Validation
9 7 (11.86%) Sequence Diagram
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) SQL
2 7 (11.86%) C#
2 7 (11.86%) C++
2 7 (11.86%) Java
3 6 (10.17%) Python
4 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.39%) Bash
5 2 (3.39%) Perl
6 1 (1.69%) C
6 1 (1.69%) C++/CLI
6 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (25.42%) Degree
2 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
3 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
4 9 (15.25%) Master's Degree
5 8 (13.56%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.39%) CBAP
7 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.39%) IIBA
7 2 (3.39%) ISEB
8 1 (1.69%) APMP
8 1 (1.69%) CSPO
8 1 (1.69%) MBA
8 1 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) PCI DSS
2 5 (8.47%) NCSC
3 4 (6.78%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Firmware
2 1 (1.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Sparx
2 6 (10.17%) Guidewire
3 4 (6.78%) BiZZdesign
3 4 (6.78%) Bloomberg
3 4 (6.78%) IBM
3 4 (6.78%) ION Trading
3 4 (6.78%) MarketAxess
3 4 (6.78%) Tradeweb
4 3 (5.08%) Google
5 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) Workday