UML Contracts

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring UML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UML over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 439 425
Rank change year-on-year +60 -14 -58
Contract jobs citing UML 210 271 496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.49% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.54% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 136 328
10th Percentile £416 £406 £413
25th Percentile £493 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year +13.18% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £850 £725 £688
90th Percentile £925 £785 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £519
% change year-on-year - +1.20% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 58 57
10th Percentile £53.20 £50.88 £49.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.01 £58.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% -3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £63.25
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £66.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +6.19%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UML in the UK

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Top 15 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 12 June 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 +55 197 £638 +21.43% 69
UK excluding London -15 125 £525 - 54
London +82 80 £850 +41.67% 11
Work from Home +84 51 £525 -12.50% 26
South East +3 48 £500 +5.26% 11
South West -4 29 £550 -21.43% 18
East of England -19 16 £638 +4.08% 6
Midlands +23 15 £430 -28.33% 7
West Midlands +20 11 £500 -16.67% 2
North of England +17 11 £500 -4.76% 8
North West +15 10 £500 -6.98% 8
Scotland +49 8 £463 -22.92% 3
East Midlands - 4 £360 - 5
Wales +13 1 £200 -69.23% 1
North East - 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 30 (14.29%) Confluence
2 14 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
3 2 (0.95%) JBoss
3 2 (0.95%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.95%) WildFly
4 1 (0.48%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.48%) Camunda
4 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.48%) LiveLink
Applications
1 20 (9.52%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.33%) Simulink
4 5 (2.38%) Stateflow
4 5 (2.38%) TargetLink
5 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.48%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 31 (14.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.90%) ION MarketView
2 4 (1.90%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.52%) Azure
2 16 (7.62%) AWS
3 13 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.90%) Power Automate
5 4 (1.90%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.43%) Lucidchart
7 2 (0.95%) SaaS
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.48%) GCP
8 1 (0.48%) IaaS
8 1 (0.48%) OCI
8 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.48%) PaaS
8 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.57%) SNMP
1 18 (8.57%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (3.81%) FIX Connectivity
3 6 (2.86%) WAN
4 2 (0.95%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.48%) Internet
5 1 (0.48%) IPsec
5 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.48%) LAN
5 1 (0.48%) MQTT
5 1 (0.48%) RS-232
5 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 43 (20.48%) Data Vault
2 43 (20.48%) Metadata
3 30 (14.29%) Metadata Repository
4 16 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.71%) Power BI
6 8 (3.81%) Pentaho
6 8 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.81%) Qlik Sense
6 8 (3.81%) QlikView
6 8 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.90%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.90%) MySQL
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.48%) KDB
Development Applications
1 38 (18.10%) Git
2 37 (17.62%) JIRA
3 23 (10.95%) Bitbucket
4 22 (10.48%) Eclipse
5 20 (9.52%) Rational DOORS
6 17 (8.10%) GoogleTest
6 17 (8.10%) Robot Framework
7 16 (7.62%) Rational Rhapsody
8 8 (3.81%) TeamCity
9 7 (3.33%) Subversion
9 7 (3.33%) Visual Studio
10 6 (2.86%) Maven
11 5 (2.38%) Jenkins
12 4 (1.90%) Gradle
12 4 (1.90%) IntelliJ
13 3 (1.43%) JUnit
14 1 (0.48%) JMeter
14 1 (0.48%) LabVIEW
14 1 (0.48%) MagicDraw
14 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 41 (19.52%) Finance
2 34 (16.19%) Electronics
3 32 (15.24%) Public Sector
4 29 (13.81%) Marketing
5 23 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (10.48%) Manufacturing
6 22 (10.48%) Social Skills
6 22 (10.48%) Telecoms
7 16 (7.62%) Aerospace
8 13 (6.19%) Publishing
9 10 (4.76%) Front Office
9 10 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.33%) Banking
10 7 (3.33%) Billing
11 6 (2.86%) Automotive
11 6 (2.86%) Military
12 5 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.43%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 67 (31.90%) Architect
2 48 (22.86%) Software Engineer
3 41 (19.52%) Data Architect
4 34 (16.19%) Business Analyst
5 33 (15.71%) Analyst
6 25 (11.90%) Developer
7 24 (11.43%) Chief Architect
7 24 (11.43%) Chief Data Architect
8 23 (10.95%) Senior
9 21 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
10 19 (9.05%) C++ Software Engineer
11 18 (8.57%) Embedded Engineer
11 18 (8.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 11 (5.24%) Ada Engineer
12 11 (5.24%) Ada Software Engineer
12 11 (5.24%) Enterprise Architect
12 11 (5.24%) Lead
13 10 (4.76%) Head of Architecture
13 10 (4.76%) Head of Data Architecture
14 9 (4.29%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.95%) XML
2 19 (9.05%) CSS
2 19 (9.05%) HTML
3 15 (7.14%) Web Services
4 12 (5.71%) .NET
5 10 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 7 (3.33%) JSON
7 6 (2.86%) XSLT
8 5 (2.38%) Blazor
8 5 (2.38%) Entity Framework
8 5 (2.38%) REST
9 4 (1.90%) SOAP
10 3 (1.43%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.43%) DPDK
10 3 (1.43%) Hibernate
10 3 (1.43%) JPA
10 3 (1.43%) Razor View Engine
10 3 (1.43%) RESTful
10 3 (1.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.14%) Reference Data
2 12 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.29%) Derivative
3 9 (4.29%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.81%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.81%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.43%) Device Driver
7 3 (1.43%) Equities
7 3 (1.43%) NHS
7 3 (1.43%) PCIe
8 2 (0.95%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.48%) Robotics
9 1 (0.48%) SCADA
9 1 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.48%) VWAP
9 1 (0.48%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.76%) Linux
2 25 (11.90%) Windows
3 17 (8.10%) Unix
4 3 (1.43%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.95%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.48%) AIX
6 1 (0.48%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (32.86%) Data Modelling
2 65 (30.95%) Software Engineering
3 59 (28.10%) Agile
4 45 (21.43%) Data Architecture
4 45 (21.43%) SysML
5 36 (17.14%) Systems Engineering
6 35 (16.67%) Validation
7 30 (14.29%) Data Design
7 30 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 29 (13.81%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (12.86%) Scrum
10 26 (12.38%) Data Governance
11 24 (11.43%) ArchiMate
11 24 (11.43%) Data Strategy
11 24 (11.43%) Verification and Validation
12 23 (10.95%) Business Analysis
12 23 (10.95%) Business Strategy
13 22 (10.48%) Programme Management
14 21 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
15 20 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 38 (18.10%) C++
2 24 (11.43%) C
2 24 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 23 (10.95%) SQL
4 18 (8.57%) Java
5 16 (7.62%) C#
6 11 (5.24%) Ada
7 9 (4.29%) MATLAB
8 8 (3.81%) Python
8 8 (3.81%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.38%) Perl
10 4 (1.90%) Bash
11 2 (0.95%) C++/CLI
12 1 (0.48%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) XAML
Qualifications
1 64 (30.48%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 49 (23.33%) Degree
4 20 (9.52%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.29%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.95%) CBAP
8 2 (0.95%) IIBA
8 2 (0.95%) ISEB
9 1 (0.48%) APMP
9 1 (0.48%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.48%) CSPO
9 1 (0.48%) HND
9 1 (0.48%) PhD
9 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.67%) MISRA
2 11 (5.24%) QA
3 10 (4.76%) MISRA C
4 7 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.86%) NCSC
6 5 (2.38%) AUTOSAR
6 5 (2.38%) ISO 26262
7 4 (1.90%) DO-178B
7 4 (1.90%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (1.90%) EMIR
7 4 (1.90%) MiFID
8 3 (1.43%) Def Stans
8 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (1.43%) PMO
9 2 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.95%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (11.90%) Firmware
2 2 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.48%) Kibana
2 1 (0.48%) logstash
2 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (16.67%) Sparx
2 23 (10.95%) SAP
3 21 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 17 (8.10%) Google
4 17 (8.10%) Oracle
5 15 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 13 (6.19%) IBM
7 9 (4.29%) ION Trading
8 8 (3.81%) Bloomberg
8 8 (3.81%) Informatica
8 8 (3.81%) MarketAxess
8 8 (3.81%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.81%) Tradeweb
9 7 (3.33%) Guidewire
10 5 (2.38%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.48%) Calypso
12 1 (0.48%) Charles River
12 1 (0.48%) Murex
12 1 (0.48%) VMware