State Machine Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

State Machine
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term State Machine in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited State Machine over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing State Machine 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £75 - -
75th Percentile £78 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £75 £650 -
% change year-on-year -88.46% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £59.90 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

State Machine falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,991 4,664 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.94% 31.24% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,703 2,626 3,908
10th Percentile £204 £203 £212
25th Percentile £358 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £664 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 252 375
10th Percentile £13.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.90 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -28.11% +53.25%
75th Percentile £64.04 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.14 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% -22.94% +21.43%

State Machine
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing State Machine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

State Machine job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

State Machine
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing State Machine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing State Machine

State Machine
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing State Machine.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing State Machine

State Machine
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing State Machine in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for State Machine in the UK excluding London

State Machine
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing State Machine within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
East of England - 6 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South East - 1 £75 -
State Machine
UK

State Machine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
General
1 7 (87.50%) Manufacturing
2 6 (75.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Software Engineer
2 6 (75.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) PLC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) PLC Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) FPGA
1 6 (75.00%) PCIe
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Robotics
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Validation
3 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 6 (75.00%) Data Acquisition
3 6 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (75.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 6 (75.00%) Memory Management
3 6 (75.00%) Multithreading
3 6 (75.00%) Performance Analysis
3 6 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (75.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
1 6 (75.00%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Ladder Logic
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared