State Machine Contracts

State Machine
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term State Machine in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited State Machine over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 583 -
Rank change year-on-year +71 - -
Contract jobs citing State Machine 10 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.009% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.10% 0.031% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £366 £408 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £415 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.63% - -
75th Percentile £750 £426 -
90th Percentile £900 £429 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

State 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 9,881 12,945 19,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.93% 30.34% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,275 8,338 13,190
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £670 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.25% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 901 632
10th Percentile £16.27 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +40.09% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.28 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.90 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -0.33% +36.36% +4.66%

State Machine
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for State Machine in the UK

State Machine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for State Machine in the UK

State Machine
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing State Machine over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for State Machine in the UK

State Machine
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for State Machine in the UK

State Machine
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing State Machine within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +72 10 £650 +56.63% 27
London +49 6 £650 +56.63% 15
Work from Home +50 5 £650 +56.63% 21
UK excluding London - 4 £358 - 17
East Midlands - 3 £358 - 1
Midlands - 3 £358 - 2
South East - 1 - - 8

State Machine
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 3 (30.00%) Oracle Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) HTTP
1 3 (30.00%) HTTPS
1 3 (30.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
1 5 (50.00%) Front Office
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior
3 5 (50.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Flex Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Hardware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 3 (30.00%) JPA
2 3 (30.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (30.00%) RAML
2 3 (30.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Batch
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) ASIC
1 1 (10.00%) FPGA
1 1 (10.00%) Verilog
1 1 (10.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Low Latency
1 6 (60.00%) Order Management
1 6 (60.00%) Smart Order Routing
2 5 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 5 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
2 5 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (30.00%) API Development
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) ION Trading
1 6 (60.00%) Solace
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Sybase