MACH Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 387 477
Rank change year-on-year +36 +90 +105
Contract jobs citing MACH 2 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.022% 0.059%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.061% 0.090% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £603 -
25th Percentile - £606 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £644 £547
90th Percentile - £648 £631
England median daily rate £638 £625 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% +25.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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

MACH
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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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (50.00%) Python