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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 498 531
Rank change year-on-year -107 +33 +89
Contract jobs citing AMQP 2 4 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.004% 0.015% 0.050%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.047% 0.12% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - £479 £494
25th Percentile £538 £496 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £758
90th Percentile - - £850
UK median daily rate £550 £518 £600
% change year-on-year +6.28% -13.75% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

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 4,260 3,449 4,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.49% 12.58% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 2,138 2,780
10th Percentile £250 £237 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 159 357
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.83 £16.86
Median hourly rate £26.72 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.27% +10.00% -9.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -45.26% +18.75% -11.11%

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
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 20 July 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 -37 1 £575 +4.55%
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OpenVPN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (50.00%) Industry 4.0
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Twin
2 1 (50.00%) Edge AI
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform