MQTT Contract Job Trends in London

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring MQTT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 351 394
Rank change year-on-year -30 +43 +125
Contract jobs citing MQTT 3 12 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% 0.086% 0.011%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 0.88% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 2
10th Percentile - - £443
25th Percentile - £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% -22.82%
75th Percentile - £500 £663
90th Percentile - £600 £708
England median daily rate £534 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +6.70% +17.65% -42.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,269 1,367 1,863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.69% 9.78% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 823 1,254
10th Percentile £283 £263 £213
25th Percentile £409 £400 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £626
90th Percentile £700 £736 £749
England median daily rate £488 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -2.50% +1.52% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 65
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.02 £18.93
25th Percentile - £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +22.64% +3.07%
75th Percentile £35.82 £39.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.25 £43.75 £75.21
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% -36.36% +150.00%

MQTT
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MQTT job vacancy trend in London

MQTT
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MQTT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MQTT

MQTT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Modbus
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (33.33%) Industry 4.0
2 1 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Control
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Edge Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Allen-Bradley
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Siemens