Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 432 417
Rank change year-on-year +49 -15 -46
Contract jobs citing UML 211 291 513
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.50% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.56% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 152 334
10th Percentile £418 £406 £413
25th Percentile £500 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £825 £645 £675
90th Percentile £925 £761 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 57 53
10th Percentile £54.95 £48.19 £44.68
25th Percentile £56.56 £52.50 £53.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +30.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £83.75 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UML.

Daily rate trend for UML in the UK

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UML in the UK

UML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UML.

Hourly rate trend for UML in the UK

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UML over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UML in the UK

UML
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +51 193 £650 +22.93% 93
UK excluding London -5 112 £525 +5.00% 76
London +81 91 £800 +39.49% 21
Work from Home +100 58 £550 -4.35% 33
South East +11 47 £500 +5.26% 13
South West +2 23 £550 -23.88% 25
Midlands +41 14 £360 -39.50% 14
East of England -21 14 £550 -2.22% 7
Scotland +46 10 £463 +2.78% 4
West Midlands +23 9 £500 -15.97% 11
North of England +22 5 £500 -2.44% 14
North West +14 5 £500 +11.11% 12
East Midlands - 5 £345 - 3
Wales +12 1 £200 -69.23%

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 31 (14.69%) Confluence
2 15 (7.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.42%) JBoss
4 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.95%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.95%) WildFly
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (11.37%) MS Visio
2 11 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.32%) Simulink
4 5 (2.37%) Stateflow
4 5 (2.37%) TargetLink
5 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.47%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 32 (15.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (4.27%) Loan IQ
3 6 (2.84%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.47%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.00%) Azure
2 15 (7.11%) AWS
3 11 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.42%) Lucidchart
6 2 (0.95%) PaaS
6 2 (0.95%) Power Automate
6 2 (0.95%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.95%) SaaS
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.47%) GCP
7 1 (0.47%) IaaS
7 1 (0.47%) OCI
7 1 (0.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.58%) SNMP
1 16 (7.58%) Software-Defined Radio
2 11 (5.21%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (2.37%) WAN
4 2 (0.95%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.47%) Intranet
5 1 (0.47%) IPsec
5 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.47%) MQTT
5 1 (0.47%) NFC
5 1 (0.47%) PPP
5 1 (0.47%) RS-232
5 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (21.80%) NoSQL
2 43 (20.38%) Data Vault
2 43 (20.38%) Metadata
3 29 (13.74%) Metadata Repository
4 14 (6.64%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.74%) Power BI
6 9 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.79%) Pentaho
7 8 (3.79%) Qlik Sense
7 8 (3.79%) QlikView
7 8 (3.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.95%) MySQL
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (16.59%) JIRA
2 34 (16.11%) Git
3 22 (10.43%) Bitbucket
4 18 (8.53%) Eclipse
5 17 (8.06%) Rational DOORS
6 16 (7.58%) GoogleTest
7 15 (7.11%) Rational Rhapsody
7 15 (7.11%) Robot Framework
8 11 (5.21%) TeamCity
9 7 (3.32%) Subversion
10 6 (2.84%) Jenkins
10 6 (2.84%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.42%) JUnit
11 3 (1.42%) Maven
12 1 (0.47%) GitLab
12 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.47%) JMeter
12 1 (0.47%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.47%) MagicDraw
12 1 (0.47%) NeoLoad
General
1 51 (24.17%) Finance
2 35 (16.59%) Public Sector
3 34 (16.11%) Electronics
4 29 (13.74%) Social Skills
5 28 (13.27%) Marketing
6 26 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (10.43%) Telecoms
8 21 (9.95%) Manufacturing
9 14 (6.64%) Aerospace
9 14 (6.64%) Publishing
10 12 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (5.21%) Front Office
12 9 (4.27%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.84%) Automotive
13 6 (2.84%) Banking
13 6 (2.84%) Billing
14 5 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.90%) Legal
16 3 (1.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (32.23%) Architect
2 44 (20.85%) Business Analyst
3 41 (19.43%) Data Architect
4 40 (18.96%) Software Engineer
5 35 (16.59%) Analyst
6 24 (11.37%) Chief Architect
6 24 (11.37%) Chief Data Architect
6 24 (11.37%) Senior
7 23 (10.90%) Developer
8 17 (8.06%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (7.11%) C++ Software Engineer
9 15 (7.11%) Embedded Engineer
9 15 (7.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 11 (5.21%) Ada Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Ada Software Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
11 11 (5.21%) Enterprise Architect
11 11 (5.21%) Front Office Business Analyst
11 11 (5.21%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.90%) XML
2 17 (8.06%) CSS
2 17 (8.06%) HTML
3 13 (6.16%) Web Services
4 12 (5.69%) .NET
5 11 (5.21%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (3.79%) Apache Camel
6 8 (3.79%) JSON
7 7 (3.32%) REST
8 6 (2.84%) .NET Framework
9 5 (2.37%) Blazor
10 4 (1.90%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.90%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.90%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.90%) SOAP
10 4 (1.90%) Spring
10 4 (1.90%) XSLT
11 3 (1.42%) JPA
11 3 (1.42%) Razor View Engine
11 3 (1.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.06%) Reference Data
2 12 (5.69%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.21%) Derivative
3 11 (5.21%) Fixed Income
4 9 (4.27%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.84%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.42%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.42%) NHS
8 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.95%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.95%) Robotics
9 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.47%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 36 (17.06%) Windows
2 35 (16.59%) Linux
3 21 (9.95%) Unix
4 4 (1.90%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.95%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.47%) AIX
6 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.47%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (36.97%) Data Modelling
2 60 (28.44%) Agile
3 58 (27.49%) Software Engineering
4 46 (21.80%) Data Architecture
5 38 (18.01%) SysML
5 38 (18.01%) Validation
6 32 (15.17%) Systems Engineering
7 30 (14.22%) Data Integration
7 30 (14.22%) Scrum
8 29 (13.74%) Data Design
9 27 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (12.80%) Verification and Validation
10 26 (12.32%) Data Governance
11 25 (11.85%) ArchiMate
11 25 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (11.37%) Business Analysis
12 24 (11.37%) Data Strategy
13 23 (10.90%) Business Strategy
14 22 (10.43%) Enterprise Architecture
15 21 (9.95%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.06%) SQL
2 32 (15.17%) C++
3 26 (12.32%) Java
4 23 (10.90%) C
5 22 (10.43%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.53%) C#
7 11 (5.21%) Ada
7 11 (5.21%) Python
8 8 (3.79%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.84%) MATLAB
10 5 (2.37%) Perl
11 4 (1.90%) Bash
12 2 (0.95%) C++/CLI
12 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.47%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.47%) XAML
Qualifications
1 62 (29.38%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 46 (21.80%) Degree
4 22 (10.43%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.74%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.95%) CBAP
8 2 (0.95%) IIBA
8 2 (0.95%) ISEB
9 1 (0.47%) APMP
9 1 (0.47%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.47%) CSPO
9 1 (0.47%) MBA
9 1 (0.47%) PhD
9 1 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.64%) QA
2 10 (4.74%) MISRA
3 7 (3.32%) Dodd-Frank
3 7 (3.32%) EMIR
3 7 (3.32%) MiFID
3 7 (3.32%) MISRA C
3 7 (3.32%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.84%) NCSC
5 5 (2.37%) AUTOSAR
5 5 (2.37%) ISO 26262
6 4 (1.90%) DO-178B
7 3 (1.42%) Def Stans
7 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.95%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (11.37%) Firmware
2 2 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Kibana
1 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.47%) logstash
Vendors
1 36 (17.06%) Sparx
2 24 (11.37%) SAP
3 22 (10.43%) IBM
4 16 (7.58%) Atlassian
4 16 (7.58%) Google
4 16 (7.58%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.58%) Oracle
5 12 (5.69%) ION Trading
6 11 (5.21%) Bloomberg
6 11 (5.21%) MarketAxess
6 11 (5.21%) Tradeweb
7 8 (3.79%) Informatica
7 8 (3.79%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.84%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (2.84%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.47%) Charles River
9 1 (0.47%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.47%) Twitter
9 1 (0.47%) Wallstreet Suite
9 1 (0.47%) Workday