MSMQ Contracts in England

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MSMQ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MSMQ over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 541 632
Rank change year-on-year +54 +91 +147
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 5 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.011% 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.084% 0.050% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - - £459
25th Percentile - £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -18.52% +34.66%
75th Percentile - £681 £731
90th Percentile - £745 -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% +28.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

MSMQ falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,958 7,946 10,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.47% 21.32% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 5,538 8,031
10th Percentile £355 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £780 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 266 142
10th Percentile £30.55 £23.80 £31.18
25th Percentile £44.38 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.41 £74.47 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

MSMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MSMQ in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MSMQ in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MSMQ 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 MSMQ within the England region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
North of England - 3 - - 1
London +42 1 - - 3
South East - 1 £550 -
MSMQ
UK

MSMQ
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 5 (100.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) FTP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Engineering Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Software Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (40.00%) WCF
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (20.00%) EDI
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) HTML5
5 1 (20.00%) jQuery
5 1 (20.00%) JSON
5 1 (20.00%) REST
5 1 (20.00%) SOAP
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) WPF
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Budgeting
2 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) Focus Group
2 3 (60.00%) Matrix Organization
2 3 (60.00%) People Management
2 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) PMP
2 1 (20.00%) MCAD
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow