AMQP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for AMQP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AMQP over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 455 500
Rank change year-on-year +82 +45 -81
Contract jobs citing AMQP 12 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.004% 0.016%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.029% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £431 £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% +35.29%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +9.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

AMQP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,339 3,500 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.27% 14.89% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,213 2,635
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £343 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 323 238
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AMQP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AMQP in the UK excluding London

AMQP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AMQP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AMQP in the UK excluding London

AMQP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AMQP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AMQP in the UK excluding London

AMQP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AMQP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for AMQP in the UK excluding London

AMQP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South West - 7 £550 - 1
North of England - 5 £415 -
North East - 5 £415 -
AMQP
UK

AMQP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) OpenShift
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (41.67%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) MQTT
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) Modbus
3 2 (16.67%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) InfluxDB
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (25.00%) Tableau
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Build Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Build Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Server Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Server Build Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Server Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Build Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) IoT Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (25.00%) JSON
3 3 (25.00%) Web Services
3 3 (25.00%) XML
3 3 (25.00%) XSLT
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (33.33%) IoT
2 4 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Configuration Management
2 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
2 5 (41.67%) Observability
2 5 (41.67%) Service Management
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) CRUD
4 3 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 2 (16.67%) Security Management
5 2 (16.67%) Server Building
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) Python
3 5 (41.67%) Go
3 5 (41.67%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) Shell Script
4 4 (33.33%) C
5 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Grafana
2 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 7 (58.33%) Docker Swarm
2 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (58.33%) Progress Chef
2 7 (58.33%) Prometheus
3 5 (41.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft