MSMQ Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 162
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% - 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +35.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

MSMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing MSMQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for MSMQ in Scotland

MSMQ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MSMQ in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for MSMQ in Scotland

MSMQ
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSMQ within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow - 2 - -
MSMQ
UK

MSMQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (100.00%) Derivative
1 2 (100.00%) Equities
1 2 (100.00%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase