MACH Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring MACH skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 640 653
Rank change year-on-year +41 +13 +259
Permanent jobs citing MACH 3 21 15
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.006% 0.043% 0.033%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.048% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 14
10th Percentile £69,500 £65,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £70,625 £67,565 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,471 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -12.50% +4.55%
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £121,563
90th Percentile £95,500 £89,550 £127,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,471 £86,250
% change year-on-year -0.62% -12.50% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,221 10,581 11,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.94% 21.45% 24.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,784 6,250 9,550
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,088 £50,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

MACH
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MACH relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

MACH job vacancy trend in England

MACH
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MACH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MACH

MACH
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MACH in England over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for MACH in England

MACH
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MACH within the England region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +22 2 £73,750 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £73,750 - 1
London +34 1 £100,000 +32.50%
MACH
UK

MACH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Solr
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior JavaScript Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Multichannel Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Order Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform