Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MQTT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MQTT over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 838 915 1062
Rank change year-on-year +77 +147 -223
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 76 37 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.038% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 0.24% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 41 21 108
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -22.22% +22.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

MQTT is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

MQTT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MQTT in the UK

MQTT
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for MQTT in the UK

MQTT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MQTT over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MQTT in the UK

MQTT
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MQTT within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +22 74 £57,500 +9.52% 13
England +95 57 £58,000 +10.48% 19
North of England +76 33 £57,500 +9.52% 2
Work from Home +71 22 £58,500 +14.15% 7
North West +23 18 £57,500 +9.52% 1
Yorkshire +87 12 - - 1
Midlands +2 10 £58,500 +17.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 10 - -
West Midlands +15 7 £58,500 +17.00% 4
South East +6 7 £80,000 +60.00% 1
Scotland - 7 £50,000 -
East of England -14 6 £45,000 -16.28% 1
East Midlands -13 3 £42,500 +41.67% 4
North East - 3 £35,000 -
London +140 1 £80,000 - 6
Wales +2 1 £27,500 - 1

MQTT
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 5 (6.58%) nginx
2 1 (1.32%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 34 (44.74%) AWS
2 20 (26.32%) Azure
2 20 (26.32%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (10.53%) Amazon ELB
4 7 (9.21%) Serverless
5 6 (7.89%) GCP
5 6 (7.89%) GitHub
6 5 (6.58%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (5.26%) AWS IoT
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.95%) Datadog
9 1 (1.32%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.32%) Firebase
9 1 (1.32%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 28 (36.84%) HTTP
2 18 (23.68%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (19.74%) RS-485
3 15 (19.74%) Wireless
4 13 (17.11%) 4G
4 13 (17.11%) TCP/IP
5 12 (15.79%) 3G
6 6 (7.89%) Bluetooth
6 6 (7.89%) LoRaWAN
6 6 (7.89%) Modbus
6 6 (7.89%) VPN
7 5 (6.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (5.26%) Ethernet
8 4 (5.26%) LTE
9 3 (3.95%) HTTPS
10 2 (2.63%) RS-232
10 2 (2.63%) ZigBee
11 1 (1.32%) 5G
11 1 (1.32%) RS-422
11 1 (1.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.68%) NoSQL
2 9 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (10.53%) MySQL
4 4 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.95%) Big Data
5 3 (3.95%) DocumentDB
5 3 (3.95%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (26.32%) Git
2 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.95%) GitLab
2 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.95%) Subversion
3 2 (2.63%) JIRA
4 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.05%) Electronics
3 15 (19.74%) Manufacturing
4 14 (18.42%) Finance
4 14 (18.42%) Marketing
4 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 14 (18.42%) Telecoms
5 12 (15.79%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.32%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Automotive
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (38.16%) Software Engineer
2 23 (30.26%) Embedded Engineer
3 20 (26.32%) Developer
4 18 (23.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 16 (21.05%) Senior
6 11 (14.47%) Full Stack Developer
7 10 (13.16%) Architect
7 10 (13.16%) Software Architect
8 6 (7.89%) Full Stack Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Firmware Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Full Stack Developer
10 4 (5.26%) CloudOps Manager
10 4 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Operations Manager
10 4 (5.26%) React Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (35.53%) Node.js
2 23 (30.26%) CSS
2 23 (30.26%) HTML
3 17 (22.37%) AngularJS
4 16 (21.05%) React
4 16 (21.05%) REST
5 15 (19.74%) RESTful
6 13 (17.11%) Kafka
7 12 (15.79%) Web Services
8 11 (14.47%) Flask
9 10 (13.16%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (9.21%) Django
11 6 (7.89%) GraphQL
12 5 (6.58%) Apache Thrift
12 5 (6.58%) gRPC
12 5 (6.58%) JSON
12 5 (6.58%) Knex.js
12 5 (6.58%) LEMP Stack
12 5 (6.58%) React Native
12 5 (6.58%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 46 (60.53%) IoT
2 13 (17.11%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (13.16%) Arduino
4 7 (9.21%) Raspberry Pi
5 6 (7.89%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (6.58%) Mobile App
7 4 (5.26%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (5.26%) Robotics
8 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.95%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (3.95%) Driving Licence
8 3 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.32%) CAN bus
9 1 (1.32%) Device Driver
9 1 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.32%) FPGA
9 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.32%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 40 (52.63%) Linux
2 16 (21.05%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (65.79%) Software Engineering
2 24 (31.58%) Computer Science
3 23 (30.26%) Microservices
4 21 (27.63%) Agile
4 21 (27.63%) Analytics
4 21 (27.63%) Full Stack Development
4 21 (27.63%) User Experience
5 18 (23.68%) Test Automation
6 17 (22.37%) Artificial Intelligence
6 17 (22.37%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (22.37%) Computer Vision
6 17 (22.37%) Data Analytics
6 17 (22.37%) OO
7 16 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 16 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (21.05%) DevOps
8 14 (18.42%) Product Management
8 14 (18.42%) Programme Management
8 14 (18.42%) Software Testing
8 14 (18.42%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (56.58%) Python
2 35 (46.05%) JavaScript
3 32 (42.11%) SQL
4 26 (34.21%) C++
5 21 (27.63%) C
6 17 (22.37%) TypeScript
7 13 (17.11%) Java
8 6 (7.89%) C#
9 5 (6.58%) Embedded C
9 5 (6.58%) JSX
9 5 (6.58%) R
10 4 (5.26%) Embedded C++
11 3 (3.95%) Bash
11 3 (3.95%) Ruby
12 1 (1.32%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.32%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (1.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (40.79%) Degree
2 12 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (13.16%) Master's Degree
3 10 (13.16%) PhD
4 6 (7.89%) HND
5 1 (1.32%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.32%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.42%) QA
2 12 (15.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.32%) JTAG
3 1 (1.32%) MISRA
3 1 (1.32%) MISRA C
System Software
1 24 (31.58%) Firmware
2 13 (17.11%) Docker
3 6 (7.89%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Terraform
3 2 (2.63%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 17 (22.37%) SAP
2 11 (14.47%) Google
3 7 (9.21%) NVIDIA
4 3 (3.95%) Siemens
4 3 (3.95%) Telerik
5 1 (1.32%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (1.32%) Atmel
5 1 (1.32%) AVEVA
5 1 (1.32%) Freescale
5 1 (1.32%) QNX
5 1 (1.32%) Renesas
5 1 (1.32%) Rockwell