Rational Unified Process (RUP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring RUP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RUP over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 895 966
Rank change year-on-year +196 +71 +145
Permanent jobs citing RUP 7 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.003% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.004% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £69,735 - £55,004
25th Percentile £73,688 - £59,378
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,450 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.77% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £110,438 - £96,250
90th Percentile £112,725 - £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £65,000 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,302 84,920 96,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.59% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,015 59,883 56,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,008 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

RUP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RUP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RUP in the UK

RUP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RUP.

Salary trend for RUP in the UK

RUP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RUP over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for RUP in the UK

RUP
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RUP within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +163 7 £93,450 +43.77% 2
London +115 6 £88,300 - 1
Work from Home +155 2 £109,500 +68.46%

RUP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure AI
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 4 (57.14%) Lead Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Salesforce Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Salesforce Technical Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leader
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Presales Solution Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Presales Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Roadmaps
3 5 (71.43%) PRINCE2
4 4 (57.14%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
4 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
4 4 (57.14%) Refactoring
4 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) SOLID
4 4 (57.14%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (57.14%) Technical Debt
4 4 (57.14%) UML
5 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft