MACH Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring MACH skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 320 313
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 -
Permanent jobs citing MACH 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.021% 0.014% 0.011%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.080% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,750 £91,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £97,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +21.88% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £103,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £97,500 £80,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +21.50% -5.59% +6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,469 2,489 2,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.60% 17.63% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 710 1,589 1,756
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £74,194 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £79,230 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

MACH
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing MACH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for MACH in the North of England

MACH
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing MACH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing MACH

MACH
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MACH within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +8 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 -
MACH
England

MACH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Next.js
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript