Machine to Machine Contracts

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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 645 849
Rank change year-on-year +80 +204 -39
Contract jobs citing Machine to Machine 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.002% 0.005%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.009% 0.006% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £471
25th Percentile £525 £313 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £509
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -36.15% +19.76%
75th Percentile £575 £338 £523
90th Percentile - - £539
UK excluding London median daily rate - £325 £509
% change year-on-year - -36.15% +19.76%

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 11,671 16,108 28,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.40% 32.31% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,127 11,023 19,708
10th Percentile £294 £300 £325
25th Percentile £414 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £807 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 456 583
10th Percentile £14.44 £16.76 £14.71
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.97 £17.56
Median hourly rate £50.00 £44.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +67.92% +6.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.44 £57.97
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £72.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.35 £49.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +17.04% +122.73% +3.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Machine to Machine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Machine to Machine in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine to Machine.

Daily rate trend for Machine to Machine in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine to Machine.

Hourly rate trend for Machine to Machine in the UK

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Top 3 Contract 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 20 September 2024. 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 +91 1 £550 +69.23%
England +74 1 £550 +69.23% 1
London - 1 £550 - 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm