MQTT Contracts in England

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MQTT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MQTT over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 522 624
Rank change year-on-year +49 +102 +105
Contract jobs citing MQTT 12 20 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.054% 0.057%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.40% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 25
10th Percentile £463 £310 £500
25th Percentile £500 £325 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £390 £735
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -46.94% +1.38%
75th Percentile £630 £431 £743
90th Percentile £688 £548 £752
UK median daily rate £588 £390 £735
% change year-on-year +50.64% -46.94% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -29.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

MQTT 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 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MQTT in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MQTT in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for MQTT in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MQTT in England

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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 MQTT 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
London +37 6 £500 +28.21% 18
Midlands - 2 £650 - 18
South East - 2 £595 - 29
West Midlands - 2 £650 - 9
East of England +30 1 £454 - 24
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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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Modbus
2 2 (16.67%) HTTP
2 2 (16.67%) Internet
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) 5G
3 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MSI
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Automotive
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
2 7 (58.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) IoT Architect
3 1 (8.33%) IT Architect
3 1 (8.33%) IT Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (16.67%) PostGIS
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) IoT
2 4 (33.33%) Operational Technology
3 3 (25.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 3 (25.00%) SCADA
4 2 (16.67%) Infotainment
4 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (8.33%) Cyberattack
5 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (8.33%) NB-IoT
5 1 (8.33%) PMI
5 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (16.67%) Edge Computing
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (16.67%) Telematics
2 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (8.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (8.33%) Predictive Maintenance
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) CSPO
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) DataCore
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat