MKS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of MKS products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MKS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within MKS, Inc.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 717 849
Rank change year-on-year +129 +132 -157
Contract jobs citing MKS 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.002% 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.016% 0.004% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £470 - £539
25th Percentile £481 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -10.20% -
75th Percentile - - £678
90th Percentile - - £751
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

MKS is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,378 25,381 35,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.59% 42.91% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,388 16,991 23,516
10th Percentile £263 £273 £293
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £648 £634
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 697 893
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.23 £11.92
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.08 £42.50 £21.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.06% +98.60% -2.73%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.30 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.00 £18.70
% change year-on-year -43.53% +103.21% +1.08%

MKS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MKS in the UK

MKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MKS in the UK

MKS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MKS in the UK

MKS
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MKS within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
London - 3 £500 -
England - 3 £500 -

MKS
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Service Catalogue
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Consul
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus