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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 490 540
Rank change year-on-year -54 +50 +160
Contract jobs citing AMQP 8 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.024% 0.004% 0.029%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.23% 0.029% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 8
10th Percentile £483 - £396
25th Percentile £522 £531 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £466
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +15.47% -28.38%
75th Percentile £588 £544 £850
90th Percentile £625 - £858
UK median daily rate £550 £494 £466
% change year-on-year +11.39% +6.07% -28.38%

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 3,456 3,430 5,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.45% 12.93% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,255 1,966 3,267
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £355 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.13%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £678 £683 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.47% -4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 105 375
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.08 £15.65
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +141.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% -35.00% +146.91%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -13 7 £550 +2.33%
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 1
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 7 (87.50%) npm
2 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
2 4 (50.00%) InfluxDB
2 4 (50.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Git
1 7 (87.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Applications Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Applications Support
1 7 (87.50%) Applications Support Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) CentOS
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Centre Operations
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (37.50%) DataOps
5 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
6 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Grafana
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle