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 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 - 632
Rank change year-on-year - - +206
Contract jobs citing Machine to Machine 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - 0.002%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.016% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.09%
75th Percentile - - £338
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £325
% change year-on-year - - -33.09%

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 12,383 11,223 14,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.82% 30.73% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,636 6,639 10,054
10th Percentile £281 £275 £281
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £673
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 347 494
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.85 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £22.11 £21.05
Median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £41.88 £46.18
% change year-on-year -37.91% -9.32% +100.78%

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 4 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 5 November 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
Yorkshire - 2 - -
England - 2 - - 10
UK excluding London - 2 - - 7
North of England - 2 - -

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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SSH
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) FIPS 140-2