MQTT Contract Job Trends in Kent

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring MQTT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MQTT 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 0.52% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
South East median daily rate £650 £595 -
% change year-on-year +9.24% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 35 26 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 18.04% 25.74% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 23 24
10th Percentile £233 £160 £203
25th Percentile £408 £196 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £250 £425
Median % change year-on-year +77.00% -41.18% -
75th Percentile £540 £526 £519
90th Percentile £634 £619 £537
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £485
% change year-on-year +4.17% -1.03% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £54.94 £57.35
% change year-on-year -11.32% -4.21% +27.44%

MQTT
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MQTT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent.

MQTT job vacancy trend in Kent

MQTT
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MQTT within the Kent region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Dartford - 1 £800 - 1
MQTT
South East

MQTT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) FactoryTalk
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) EAM
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) PLM
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AVEVA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens