Machine to Machine Contract Job Trends

Machine to Machine
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Machine to Machine in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine to Machine over the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 550 -
Rank change year-on-year -117 - -
Contract jobs citing Machine to Machine 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.006% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.016% 0.017% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Machine to 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,971 11,895 11,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.55% 36.03% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,329 7,295 6,856
10th Percentile £322 £300 £275
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £526
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -1.49% -4.36%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,305 616 414
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £15.62
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.82 £22.70
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.06 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.29% -42.14% +8.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.85 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.82 £29.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +23.52% -49.43% +14.70%

Machine to Machine
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Machine to Machine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Machine to Machine job vacancy trend in the UK

Machine to Machine
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Machine to Machine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Machine to Machine

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Machine to Machine.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Machine to Machine

Machine to Machine
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine to Machine within the UK over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. 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
Work from Home - 3 £550 - 2
England -117 1 £550 - 6
London - 1 £550 - 4

Machine to Machine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Police
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) MLOps
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) EU AI Act
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) ForgeRock
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft