MACH Job Trends in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring MACH skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 255 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Permanent jobs citing MACH 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.015% 0.030% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.14% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,750 £79,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £84,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% - -
75th Percentile £65,250 £88,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £79,721 £85,000
% change year-on-year -9.06% -6.21% -5.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,120 1,397 2,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.66% 20.80% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 920 951 2,325
10th Percentile £38,400 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,318 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.99% +10.53% -11.11%

MACH
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

MACH job vacancy trend in the South East

MACH
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MACH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MACH

MACH
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MACH within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 March 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
Thames Valley -2 2 £63,500 -24.40% 2
Buckinghamshire - 2 £63,500 - 2
MACH
England

MACH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP