MACH Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring MACH skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MACH over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 127 170
Rank change year-on-year +2 +43 -
Contract jobs citing MACH 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.053% 0.046% 0.057%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £950 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,100 - £650
75th Percentile £1,250 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £1,100 - £650

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

MACH falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 481 503 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.67% 23.38% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 341 591
10th Percentile £404 £413 £419
25th Percentile £446 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £744
90th Percentile £759 £788 £836
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.58%

MACH
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for MACH in the City of London

MACH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) iPaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Chief Technology Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Zachman Framework
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce