Messaging Engineer Contracts in England

Messaging Engineer
UK > England

The median Messaging Engineer daily rate in England is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 514 635
Rank change year-on-year +40 +121 +129
Contract jobs requiring a Messaging Engineer 14 17 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.058% 0.047% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.050% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 8
10th Percentile £438 £471 £361
25th Percentile £503 £525 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £433
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +27.17% +8.13%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £588
90th Percentile £619 - £629
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £433
% change year-on-year -2.27% +27.17% +8.13%

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 22,371 33,770 45,838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.77% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,864 22,424 32,556
10th Percentile £296 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 926 2,441 1,340
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.38% -18.89% +88.21%

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 21 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 21 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 of England - 9 £600 - 3
North West - 8 - - 3
East of England +18 4 £538 -2.27%
Midlands +16 1 £375 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £600 -
West Midlands - 1 £375 - 2
Messaging Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 12 (85.71%) Skype for Business
2 12 (85.71%) Skype
3 10 (71.43%) Problem Management
3 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
4 9 (64.29%) Cisco
5 8 (57.14%) B2B
5 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
5 8 (57.14%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (57.14%) SQL
5 8 (57.14%) ITIL
5 8 (57.14%) Linux
5 8 (57.14%) Management Information System
5 8 (57.14%) Softphone
5 8 (57.14%) SCOM
5 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
5 8 (57.14%) XMPP
5 8 (57.14%) WebEx
5 8 (57.14%) Unified Communications
5 8 (57.14%) Splunk
5 8 (57.14%) Mattermost
5 8 (57.14%) Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (28.57%) SMTP
7 4 (28.57%) SAN
7 4 (28.57%) NetApp
7 4 (28.57%) Blackberry
7 4 (28.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

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 12 (85.71%) Skype for Business
2 8 (57.14%) Mattermost
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (28.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Cohesity
2 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) Skype
2 8 (57.14%) Softphone
2 8 (57.14%) Unified Communications
2 8 (57.14%) WebEx
3 4 (28.57%) IMAP
3 4 (28.57%) SAN
3 4 (28.57%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Electronics
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Management Information System
2 4 (28.57%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Problem Management
1 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (57.14%) B2B
2 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 8 (57.14%) Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 1 (7.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (7.14%) Capacity Management
5 1 (7.14%) Change Management
5 1 (7.14%) Information Security
5 1 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Server Building
5 1 (7.14%) Service Catalogue
5 1 (7.14%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (7.14%) System Testing
5 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) SCOM
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (64.29%) Cisco
3 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
3 8 (57.14%) Splunk
4 4 (28.57%) NetApp
4 4 (28.57%) VMware
5 2 (14.29%) SAP
6 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu
6 1 (7.14%) Proofpoint