MQTT Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring MQTT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 131 -
Rank change year-on-year -60 - -
Contract jobs citing MQTT 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.065% 0.13% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.76% 1.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £508 -
25th Percentile £413 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% - -
75th Percentile £438 £669 -
90th Percentile - £703 -
England median daily rate £484 £635 £390
% change year-on-year -23.82% +62.82% -46.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 393 279 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.54% 11.74% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 158 277
10th Percentile £206 £200 £205
25th Percentile £309 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £561 £588
90th Percentile £635 £658 £675
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 32
10th Percentile £19.54 £13.81 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.33 £14.80 £12.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% +76.24% -31.57%
75th Percentile £73.15 £32.56 £23.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £42.87 £26.15
England median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -40.62% +12.50% +18.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

MQTT job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MQTT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MQTT

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MQTT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MQTT

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MQTT within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
West Midlands -56 2 - - 3
East Midlands -11 1 £425 -15.00% 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) AMQP
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (33.33%) Modbus
1 1 (33.33%) OpenVPN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) IoT
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Signage
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (33.33%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Tizen
1 1 (33.33%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (33.33%) B2B
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Twin
1 1 (33.33%) Edge AI
1 1 (33.33%) Edge Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) MLOps
1 1 (33.33%) Predictive Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker