AMQP Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring AMQP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 54 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing AMQP 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.97% 0.90% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.50% 8.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 -
75th Percentile £575 £588 -
90th Percentile - £610 -
South West median daily rate £550 £550 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 40 45 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.90% 10.09% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 23 36
10th Percentile £221 £220 £380
25th Percentile £270 £436 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.68% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £691
90th Percentile £636 £623 £788
South West median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £22.95
25th Percentile - £15.75 £23.63
Median hourly rate - £16.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - -37.74% -47.54%
75th Percentile - £17.25 £56.63
90th Percentile - - £73.65
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.54% +15.06% -5.85%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for AMQP in Gloucestershire

AMQP
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing AMQP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing AMQP

AMQP
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Cheltenham +25 3 £550 - 1
AMQP
South West

AMQP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) npm
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle