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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 716 787 941
Rank change year-on-year +71 +154 +188
Permanent jobs citing MACH 18 17 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.022% 0.068%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.095% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 44
10th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £74,125
25th Percentile £65,625 £75,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,721 £87,500 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -1.41% +14.52%
75th Percentile £87,500 £122,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £89,550 £127,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £79,500 £115,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -30.87% +43.75% +10.34%

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 11,089 17,974 34,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.50% 23.33% 31.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,716 14,194 21,298
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £61,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -8.89% +8.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for MACH in the UK

MACH
Top 10 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 19 February 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
England +68 18 £79,721 -8.89% 13
London +41 11 £80,221 +10.65% 8
UK excluding London +72 7 £79,500 -30.87% 6
Work from Home +83 5 £67,500 -23.94% 6
East of England +2 3 £87,500 -30.00%
South East - 2 £84,000 - 1
North of England +39 1 - - 3
North West +4 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 £70,000 - 1
Midlands - 1 £70,000 - 2

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 6 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) SAP Hybris
1 3 (16.67%) Shopify
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) BigCommerce
3 6 (33.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 5 (27.78%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Commercetools
5 4 (22.22%) Contentful
5 4 (22.22%) GitHub
5 4 (22.22%) PaaS
5 4 (22.22%) SaaS
6 3 (16.67%) Contentstack
6 3 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (5.56%) Algolia
7 1 (5.56%) Amplience
7 1 (5.56%) Bloomreach
7 1 (5.56%) Cloudinary
7 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Retail
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Marketing
3 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (27.78%) Digital Architect
4 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce Manager
5 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery Manager
5 3 (16.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 3 (16.67%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
5 3 (16.67%) Senior Manager
6 2 (11.11%) Digital Solutions Architect
6 2 (11.11%) Lead
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
7 1 (5.56%) Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
1 1 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (5.56%) Next.js
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.11%) Housing Association
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (5.56%) PMI
3 1 (5.56%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Microservices
2 10 (55.56%) E-Commerce
3 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) User Experience
7 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
7 4 (22.22%) ERP
7 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
7 4 (22.22%) Re-Platforming
7 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (16.67%) B2C
8 3 (16.67%) Identity Management
8 3 (16.67%) Process Management
8 3 (16.67%) Project Management
8 3 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) CBAP
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Salesforce
2 6 (33.33%) SAP
3 2 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Adyen