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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 380 431
Rank change year-on-year +21 +51 +145
Contract jobs citing MQTT 3 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.025% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.23% 0.26% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £380 £672
25th Percentile £628 £425 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £500 £735
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -31.97% -
75th Percentile £643 £581 £743
90th Percentile - £593 -
England median daily rate £635 £450 £725
% change year-on-year +41.11% -37.93% -1.36%

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 1,323 1,529 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.84% 9.39% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 973 1,583
10th Percentile £289 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £390 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £721 £750
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 43
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.50
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

MQTT
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for MQTT 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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 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
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) IoT
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%) Life Science
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) BDD
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Java
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
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Allen-Bradley
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Siemens