MACH Contracts in London

Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless (MACH)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for MACH skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MACH over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 486 580
Rank change year-on-year +95 +94 -
Contract jobs citing MACH 4 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.059% 0.039%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.089% 0.22% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £603 - £474
25th Percentile £606 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -2.44% -
75th Percentile £644 £547 £547
90th Percentile £648 £631 £564
England median daily rate £625 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

MACH is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,476 7,348 12,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.14% 27.29% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,352 5,471 9,397
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 40 67
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £32.00
25th Percentile £23.99 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.20 £76.63 £79.70
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%

MACH
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing MACH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for MACH in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for MACH in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MACH within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +45 1 - -
MACH
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Sitecore Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Campaign Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Personalization
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Optimizely