MACH Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless (MACH)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 442 591
Rank change year-on-year +96 +149 -
Contract jobs citing MACH 1 25 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.100% 0.063%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.028% 0.39% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile - - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile - - £600
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MACH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MACH trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MACH.

MACH daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google