MACH Job Trends in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring MACH skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 144 197
Rank change year-on-year -9 +53 -
Permanent jobs citing MACH 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.046% 0.049% 0.044%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £75,500
25th Percentile £82,500 - £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £82,500
75th Percentile £87,500 - £88,750
90th Percentile - - £89,500
North West median annual salary £85,000 - £82,500

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 433 521 1,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.02% 25.46% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 363 429 932
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,756 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

MACH
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

MACH job vacancy trend in Manchester

MACH
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MACH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MACH

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amplience
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Canva
1 1 (50.00%) Miro
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Marketing Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) Competitive Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Copywriting
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) Product Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Sales Enablement
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce