RUP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Rational Unified Process (RUP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring RUP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 - 756
Rank change year-on-year - - -56
Permanent jobs citing RUP 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% - 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% - 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £65,000
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £94,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -33.69% +45.00% -38.10%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

RUP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,972 26,895 61,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.59% 91.29% 80.59%
Number of salaries quoted 31,834 13,584 43,167
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

RUP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RUP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

RUP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RUP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RUP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RUP

RUP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RUP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1
RUP
UK

RUP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior SEO Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SEO Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) SEO
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall