Messaging Engineer Contracts in England

Messaging Engineer
UK > England

The median Messaging Engineer daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 531 641
Rank change year-on-year +58 +110 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Messaging Engineer 12 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.030% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.032% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 9
10th Percentile £419 £456 £363
25th Percentile £472 £488 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +15.79% +20.63%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £575
90th Percentile £594 £598 £628
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -6.82% +15.79% +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Messaging Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Messaging Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Messaging Engineer in England

Messaging Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Messaging Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Messaging Engineer in England

Messaging Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Messaging Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Messaging Engineer in England

Messaging Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Messaging Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Messaging Engineer in England

Messaging Engineer
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 Messaging Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West - 5 - - 4
North of England - 5 - - 4
East of England +26 4 £538 -1.38%
London +37 2 £475 -22.45% 1
Midlands - 1 £375 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £375 - 1
Messaging Engineer
UK

Messaging Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Messaging Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Messaging Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (91.67%) Skype for Business
2 11 (91.67%) Skype
3 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
4 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (58.33%) Problem Management
4 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (50.00%) Cisco
6 5 (41.67%) B2B
6 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
6 5 (41.67%) Blackberry
6 5 (41.67%) Linux
6 5 (41.67%) SQL
6 5 (41.67%) ITIL
6 5 (41.67%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
6 5 (41.67%) Softphone
6 5 (41.67%) SCOM
6 5 (41.67%) XMPP
6 5 (41.67%) Unified Communications
6 5 (41.67%) Splunk
6 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
6 5 (41.67%) Mattermost
6 5 (41.67%) WebEx
6 5 (41.67%) Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (33.33%) Cohesity
7 4 (33.33%) IMAP
7 4 (33.33%) VMware

Messaging Engineer Skill Set
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 11 (91.67%) Skype for Business
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (41.67%) Mattermost
4 4 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
6 1 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Cohesity
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Skype
2 5 (41.67%) Softphone
2 5 (41.67%) Unified Communications
2 5 (41.67%) WebEx
3 4 (33.33%) IMAP
3 4 (33.33%) SAN
3 4 (33.33%) SMTP
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Electronics
4 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (16.67%) Marketing
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (8.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Blackberry
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) BYOD
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem Management
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) B2B
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Capacity Management
5 1 (8.33%) Information Security
5 1 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Server Building
5 1 (8.33%) Service Catalogue
5 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCOM
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (16.67%) Forefront Identity Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
3 5 (41.67%) Splunk
4 4 (33.33%) NetApp
4 4 (33.33%) VMware
5 2 (16.67%) SAP
6 1 (8.33%) Citrix
6 1 (8.33%) Fujitsu
6 1 (8.33%) Proofpoint