Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MSMQ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MSMQ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 704 831
Rank change year-on-year +109 +127 -171
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 3 15 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.025% 0.020%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.034% 0.11% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 13
10th Percentile £549 £427 -
25th Percentile £584 £516 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +35.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £722 £731 £595
90th Percentile £761 - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate - £675 £444
% change year-on-year - +52.11% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

MSMQ is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

MSMQ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MSMQ in the UK

MSMQ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MSMQ in the UK

MSMQ
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MSMQ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MSMQ in the UK

MSMQ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MSMQ in the UK

MSMQ
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 MSMQ within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +117 3 £650 -3.70% 3
London +102 3 £650 +18.18% 1
Work from Home +119 2 £525 -22.22% 2

MSMQ
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Angular Developer
1 2 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) HTML CSS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) HTML Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft