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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 - 526
Rank change year-on-year - - +89
Contract jobs citing AMQP 3 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% - 0.043%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.074% - 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £438 - £485
25th Percentile £475 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £619 - £625
90th Percentile £623 - £855
UK median daily rate £550 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 4,047 3,175 4,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.86% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,511 1,979 2,874
10th Percentile £263 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.82%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 128 394
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.54 £13.61
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £30.77 £37.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -9.64% +130.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.58 £72.78
UK median hourly rate £27.69 £41.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -33.28% +3.75% +111.30%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 - 2 £588 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
Midlands - 1 £425 -
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 (66.67%) OpenShift
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) InfluxDB
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle