AMQP Contract Job Trends in England

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring AMQP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 - 525
Rank change year-on-year - - +153
Contract jobs citing AMQP 7 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.018% - 0.040%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £473 - £404
25th Percentile £519 - £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £619 - £575
90th Percentile £625 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

AMQP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,802 3,207 5,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.68% 13.15% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,402 2,009 3,113
10th Percentile £225 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.51%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £480
% change year-on-year +2.04% +2.08% -7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 124 399
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.79 £19.06 £17.69
Median hourly rate £48.72 £37.07 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.42% -3.71% +103.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.21 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £37.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +23.33% -1.32% +100.00%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AMQP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

AMQP job vacancy trend in England

AMQP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AMQP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AMQP

AMQP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AMQP in England over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AMQP in England

AMQP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AMQP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AMQP

AMQP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the England region over the 6 months to 13 April 2026. 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 - 6 £563 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
Midlands - 1 £425 - 1
AMQP
UK

AMQP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) npm
2 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) InfluxDB
2 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Maven
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Applications Support
1 5 (71.43%) Applications Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Site Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) CentOS
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Centre Operations
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) DataOps
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle