MSMQ Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring MSMQ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MSMQ over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 - 212
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.030% - 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% - 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £525
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £675
% change year-on-year - -18.52% +35.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

MSMQ falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 673 895 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.30% 19.41% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 602 850
10th Percentile £358 £360 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £599
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.70% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 32 9
10th Percentile £65.25 £14.56 £37.79
25th Percentile £67.63 £21.25 £48.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.65% -26.11% +2.04%
75th Percentile £100.28 £69.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £72.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

MSMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing MSMQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for MSMQ in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MSMQ in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for MSMQ in the North of England

MSMQ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MSMQ in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for MSMQ in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSMQ within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
MSMQ
England

MSMQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Focus Group
1 1 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PMP