MACH Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless (MACH)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring MACH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MACH 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.089% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £500 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +10.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

MACH falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 451 320 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.04% 19.15% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 190 177
10th Percentile £368 £380 £304
25th Percentile £449 £451 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% -7.50%
75th Percentile £601 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £739 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.20
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £30.63
90th Percentile £77.25 - £38.50
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

MACH
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MACH relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

MACH job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

MACH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Complex ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification