MACH Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 628 760
Rank change year-on-year +89 +132 -
Contract jobs citing MACH 4 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.040% 0.032%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.053% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £603 - £450
25th Percentile £606 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -2.44% -
75th Percentile £644 £688 £556
90th Percentile £648 £950 £624
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
England

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 England 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 7,524 11,672 19,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.21% 23.13% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,350 8,631 14,427
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 138 213
10th Percentile £22.12 £28.73 £22.50
25th Percentile £42.81 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

MACH
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MACH in England

MACH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MACH in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MACH within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London +95 4 £625 +25.00% 2
MACH
UK

MACH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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