MKS Contracts

MKS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of MKS products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MKS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 579 717
Rank change year-on-year +62 +138 +134
Contract jobs citing MKS 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.007% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.022% 0.016% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £578 £470 -
25th Percentile £602 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +31.50% -9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £717 - -
90th Percentile £743 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

MKS falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MKS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 5 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 1 May 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
England +57 3 £658 +31.50%
London +37 2 £658 +31.50%
Work from Home - 2 £740 -
East of England - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MQSeries
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Avaya Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) EDIFACT
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) JTAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Rancher
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Confluent
2 1 (33.33%) Avaya
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Verint