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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring MACH skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MACH over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 837 853 1183
Rank change year-on-year +16 +330 -190
Permanent jobs citing MACH 5 34 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.042% 0.052%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.028% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 57
10th Percentile £86,000 £72,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £91,250 £76,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £119,500 - £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £97,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +3.13% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

MACH
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MACH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MACH in the UK

MACH
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MACH.

Salary trend for MACH in the UK

MACH
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MACH over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for MACH in the UK

MACH
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MACH within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England +6 5 £97,500 +14.71% 2
UK excluding London -32 3 £97,500 +18.18% 1
London +54 2 £90,000 - 1
Work from Home +31 2 £107,500 +26.47% 1
North of England +10 2 £97,500 +21.88% 1
North West -7 2 £97,500 +21.88% 1
East of England - 1 £130,000 -

MACH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aviation
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Felix
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Sling
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5
1 1 (20.00%) J2EE
1 1 (20.00%) OSGi
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Customer Experience
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle