Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring UML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited UML over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 509 538
Rank change year-on-year +345 +29 +45
Permanent jobs citing UML 949 426 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.82% 0.43% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 0.50% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 826 335 342
10th Percentile £37,574 £31,500 £46,250
25th Percentile - £44,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% -20.86% +6.92%
75th Percentile £56,813 £65,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £86,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.18% -4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UML 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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UML in the UK

UML
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for UML in the UK

UML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UML over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for UML in the UK

UML
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London +306 858 £47,683 -9.18% 76
England +286 750 £47,683 -13.30% 99
Work from Home +392 482 £47,683 -17.07% 73
South East +305 295 £55,000 -2.22% 24
North of England +187 160 £47,683 -23.71% 7
Scotland +205 117 £47,683 -26.64% 2
North West +88 100 £50,055 -19.91% 4
South West +49 100 £47,683 -4.63% 17
East of England +97 70 £47,683 -26.64% 12
Midlands +75 66 £47,683 +0.39% 15
Yorkshire +124 58 £47,683 - 1
London +87 57 £60,000 -25.00% 23
East Midlands +74 57 £47,683 +12.20% 2
Wales +84 52 £47,683 -
West Midlands +39 8 £60,000 +9.09% 13
North East - 2 £43,000 - 2

UML
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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (2.74%) Apache
2 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.42%) Confluence
4 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 148 (15.60%) Simulink
2 7 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.21%) Windchill
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 145 (15.28%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 36 (3.79%) Azure
2 29 (3.06%) AWS
3 22 (2.32%) GCP
3 22 (2.32%) SaaS
4 7 (0.74%) PaaS
5 6 (0.63%) GitHub
5 6 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (0.53%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.11%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.42%) 5G
1 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
1 4 (0.42%) WAN
1 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.21%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.26%) NoSQL
3 6 (0.63%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.63%) MySQL
3 6 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.53%) Power BI
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.32%) Tableau
6 2 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.21%) DB2
6 2 (0.21%) IBM InfoSphere
6 2 (0.21%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (0.21%) QlikView
7 1 (0.11%) GIS
7 1 (0.11%) KDB
7 1 (0.11%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.11%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 156 (16.44%) Rational DOORS
2 30 (3.16%) Eclipse
3 26 (2.74%) Eclipse RCP
4 21 (2.21%) Git
5 14 (1.48%) MagicDraw
6 7 (0.74%) ClearCase
7 6 (0.63%) Gradle
7 6 (0.63%) JIRA
7 6 (0.63%) Maven
8 5 (0.53%) NetBeans
9 4 (0.42%) JUnit
9 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.32%) Subversion
11 2 (0.21%) ERwin
12 1 (0.11%) GitLab
12 1 (0.11%) Jenkins
12 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 430 (45.31%) Presentation Skills
2 225 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 150 (15.81%) Electronics
4 149 (15.70%) Aerospace
5 32 (3.37%) Finance
6 20 (2.11%) Avionics
7 13 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.26%) Games
9 7 (0.74%) Banking
9 7 (0.74%) Military
10 5 (0.53%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.42%) Advertising
11 4 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.42%) Marketing
12 3 (0.32%) Back Office
12 3 (0.32%) Law
13 2 (0.21%) Legal
13 2 (0.21%) Retail
14 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 626 (65.96%) Systems Engineer
2 168 (17.70%) Junior
3 145 (15.28%) Junior Systems Engineer
4 137 (14.44%) Senior
5 135 (14.23%) Software Engineer
6 65 (6.85%) Principal Engineer
7 60 (6.32%) Lead
8 59 (6.22%) Principal Software Engineer
9 52 (5.48%) Architect
10 43 (4.53%) Senior Software Test Engineer
10 43 (4.53%) Senior Test Engineer
10 43 (4.53%) Software Test Engineer
10 43 (4.53%) Test Engineer
11 41 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (3.48%) Lead Systems Engineer
13 31 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (2.74%) Developer
15 23 (2.42%) Junior Software Engineer
16 21 (2.21%) Software Developer
17 20 (2.11%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (4.53%) XML
2 40 (4.21%) Middleware
3 28 (2.95%) HTML
4 26 (2.74%) CSS
4 26 (2.74%) JSP
5 23 (2.42%) .NET
6 14 (1.48%) .NET Core
6 14 (1.48%) ASP.NET
7 12 (1.26%) Kafka
7 12 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (0.74%) XSD
9 6 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.63%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.63%) RESTful
9 6 (0.63%) SOAP
9 6 (0.63%) Spring
10 5 (0.53%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.53%) React
11 4 (0.42%) JavaFX
11 4 (0.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (3.16%) Management Information System
2 21 (2.21%) Cloud Native
3 17 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
4 13 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.26%) Mobile Games
6 6 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (0.63%) Mobile App
7 4 (0.42%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.42%) GNSS
7 4 (0.42%) Self-Driving Car
7 4 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.32%) Derivative
9 2 (0.21%) DTCC
9 2 (0.21%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.11%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.11%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.11%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.11%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.21%) Linux
2 29 (3.06%) Windows
3 5 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.11%) Android
4 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (71.23%) Agile
2 651 (68.60%) SysML
3 621 (65.44%) Systems Engineering
4 438 (46.15%) MODAF
5 420 (44.26%) Cybersecurity
6 311 (32.77%) Computer Science
7 211 (22.23%) Software Engineering
8 188 (19.81%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 178 (18.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 175 (18.44%) Physics
11 174 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
12 172 (18.12%) Mathematics
13 169 (17.81%) Waterfall
14 159 (16.75%) Project Management
15 149 (15.70%) Creative Problem-Solving
16 145 (15.28%) PLM
17 101 (10.64%) Configuration Management
18 74 (7.80%) Test Automation
19 72 (7.59%) SDLC
20 69 (7.27%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 579 (61.01%) MATLAB
2 91 (9.59%) Ada
3 68 (7.17%) Java
4 63 (6.64%) SQL
5 59 (6.22%) C
6 46 (4.85%) C#
7 42 (4.43%) Python
8 32 (3.37%) C++
9 24 (2.53%) Rust
10 8 (0.84%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.42%) Ada 95
12 3 (0.32%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.11%) ABAP
14 1 (0.11%) Bicep
14 1 (0.11%) Fortran
14 1 (0.11%) PHP
14 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 826 (87.04%) Degree
2 749 (78.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 70 (7.38%) Chartered Engineer
4 29 (3.06%) HND
5 26 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.48%) Security Cleared
7 12 (1.26%) SC Cleared
8 8 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.63%) HNC
10 4 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.11%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 1 (0.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (9.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 12 (1.26%) QA
3 5 (0.53%) Def Stans
4 4 (0.42%) IEC 61508
4 4 (0.42%) PMO
5 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.21%) EMIR
6 2 (0.21%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.21%) MiFID
6 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.21%) SEPA
7 1 (0.11%) GDPR
7 1 (0.11%) MISRA
System Software
1 23 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (0.95%) Docker
3 6 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.63%) Argo
2 6 (0.63%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 155 (16.33%) IBM
2 22 (2.32%) Oracle
3 20 (2.11%) Google
4 13 (1.37%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.05%) Microsoft
6 7 (0.74%) Atlassian
7 6 (0.63%) New Relic
8 4 (0.42%) Intel
8 4 (0.42%) SAP
9 3 (0.32%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.32%) Sparx
10 2 (0.21%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.21%) Calypso
10 2 (0.21%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.21%) Currenex
10 2 (0.21%) Databricks
10 2 (0.21%) Murex
10 2 (0.21%) OneTrust
10 2 (0.21%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.21%) Varonis