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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 516 535
Rank change year-on-year +356 +19 +45
Permanent jobs citing UML 950 427 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 0.43% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 0.51% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 827 336 344
10th Percentile £37,574 £31,500 £45,375
25th Percentile - £45,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £56,625 £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 48,396 84,463 100,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.23% 86.03% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,602 59,759 58,823
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +3.33%
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 27 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 27 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 +320 859 £47,683 -9.18% 157
England +277 751 £47,683 -13.30% 199
Work from Home +391 483 £47,683 -17.07% 132
South East +293 295 £55,000 - 68
North of England +177 160 £47,683 -23.71% 14
Scotland +210 117 £47,683 -26.64% 9
North West +89 100 £50,055 -19.91% 9
South West +48 100 £47,683 -4.63% 26
East of England +106 70 £47,683 -26.64% 17
Midlands +93 67 £47,683 +5.96% 21
Yorkshire +123 58 £47,683 - 4
East Midlands +77 57 £47,683 +12.20% 3
London +77 57 £60,000 -25.00% 61
Wales +84 52 £47,683 - 5
West Midlands +40 9 £60,000 +17.07% 17
North East - 2 £43,000 - 1

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 (15.58%) 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 (15.26%) 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 (3.05%) 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%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.11%) GIS
7 1 (0.11%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.11%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.11%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 156 (16.42%) Rational DOORS
2 30 (3.16%) Eclipse
3 26 (2.74%) Eclipse RCP
4 21 (2.21%) Git
5 14 (1.47%) 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 (45.26%) Presentation Skills
2 226 (23.79%) Social Skills
3 150 (15.79%) Electronics
4 149 (15.68%) Aerospace
5 33 (3.47%) 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 (65.89%) Systems Engineer
2 168 (17.68%) Junior
3 145 (15.26%) Junior Systems Engineer
4 137 (14.42%) Senior
5 135 (14.21%) Software Engineer
6 65 (6.84%) Principal Engineer
7 60 (6.32%) Lead
8 59 (6.21%) Principal Software Engineer
9 52 (5.47%) 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 (3.47%) Lead Systems Engineer
13 31 (3.26%) 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 (1.47%) .NET Core
6 14 (1.47%) 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 5 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.42%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.42%) GNSS
8 4 (0.42%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (0.32%) Derivative
10 2 (0.21%) DTCC
10 2 (0.21%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.11%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.11%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.11%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.11%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.21%) Linux
2 29 (3.05%) 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
1 677 (71.26%) Agile
2 651 (68.53%) SysML
3 621 (65.37%) Systems Engineering
4 438 (46.11%) MODAF
5 420 (44.21%) Cybersecurity
6 311 (32.74%) Computer Science
7 211 (22.21%) Software Engineering
8 188 (19.79%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 178 (18.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 175 (18.42%) Physics
10 175 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
11 172 (18.11%) Mathematics
12 169 (17.79%) Waterfall
13 159 (16.74%) Project Management
14 149 (15.68%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 145 (15.26%) PLM
16 101 (10.63%) Configuration Management
17 74 (7.79%) Test Automation
18 72 (7.58%) SDLC
19 69 (7.26%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 579 (60.95%) MATLAB
2 91 (9.58%) Ada
3 68 (7.16%) Java
4 63 (6.63%) SQL
5 59 (6.21%) C
6 46 (4.84%) C#
7 42 (4.42%) 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 (86.95%) Degree
2 749 (78.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 70 (7.37%) Chartered Engineer
4 29 (3.05%) HND
5 26 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.47%) 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 (9.68%) 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 (16.32%) 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%) Calypso
10 2 (0.21%) Charles River
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