Machine to Machine Contracts

Machine to Machine
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Machine to Machine in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Machine to Machine over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 - 841
Rank change year-on-year - - -136
Contract jobs citing Machine to Machine 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% - 0.003%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.061% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £538 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £509
75th Percentile £613 - £532
90th Percentile £621 - £543
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £509

All Generic Skills
UK

Machine to Machine is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,029 19,238 28,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.28% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,389 13,217 20,227
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 636 716
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.02
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.66% -12.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine to Machine in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine to Machine.

Daily rate trend for Machine to Machine in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine to Machine.

Hourly rate trend for Machine to Machine in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine to Machine within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 8 £575 -
England - 8 £575 -
Work from Home - 2 £550 -

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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 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure AKS
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Functions
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (87.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) MQTT
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Cypress.io
1 7 (87.50%) JMeter
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 1 (12.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Kafka
1 7 (87.50%) Node.js
1 7 (87.50%) React
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Architectural Design
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Developer Relations
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) SDET
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Java
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) iptables
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Argo
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Docker Swarm