MKS Contracts in England

MKS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of MKS products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MKS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within MKS, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 539 -
Rank change year-on-year +57 - -
Contract jobs citing MKS 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.008% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.026% 0.019% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £578 £470 -
25th Percentile £602 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.50% - -
75th Percentile £717 - -
90th Percentile £743 - -
UK median daily rate £658 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +31.50% -9.09% -10.20%

All Vendors
England

MKS falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

MKS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MKS in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MKS in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MKS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MKS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MKS in England.

Hourly rate trend for MKS 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 MKS within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +37 2 £658 +31.50%
East of England - 1 - -
MKS
UK

MKS
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 2 (66.67%) MQSeries
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Avaya Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) EDIFACT
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) JTAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Rancher
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Confluent
2 1 (33.33%) Avaya
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Verint