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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 519 595
Rank change year-on-year +23 +76 +161
Contract jobs citing AMQP 5 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.018% 0.043% 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 0.36% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile £485 £525 -
25th Percentile £511 £542 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £771 £675
90th Percentile - £860 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 3,293 3,936 5,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.86% 12.04% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,057 2,306 3,599
10th Percentile £230 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 218 280
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.47 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.84 £24.03
Median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.85% -10.60% +36.12%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AMQP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AMQP 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

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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

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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 17 September 2025. 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 +22 3 £550 - 3
London +17 1 £485 -34.46% 3
AMQP
UK

AMQP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Anypoint
1 2 (40.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) npm
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Maven
3 2 (40.00%) GitLab
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (40.00%) JWT
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) CentOS
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Enrichment
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) MuleSoft