MACH Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 157 - 220
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing MACH 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.066% - 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £688 - £975
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £1,050
Median % change year-on-year - - +110.00%
75th Percentile £763 - £1,125
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £638 £625 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% +25.00% -2.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 500 730 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 13.13% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 462 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £411 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £661 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MACH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MACH in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MACH in the South East.

Daily rate trend for MACH in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MACH within the South East 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
Berkshire - 2 £725 - 1
Thames Valley - 2 £725 - 1
MACH
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Personalization
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin