AMQP Contract Job Trends in the South West

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring AMQP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 128 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing AMQP 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.39% 0.047% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.70% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £523 - -
25th Percentile £525 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -
75th Percentile £575 £544 -
90th Percentile £625 - -
England median daily rate £550 £735 £431
% change year-on-year -25.17% +70.53% -31.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

AMQP 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 243 314 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.46% 14.83% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 195 263
10th Percentile £225 £250 £250
25th Percentile £324 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £591 £580 £663
90th Percentile £722 £670 £736
England median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 69
10th Percentile £15.62 £11.75 £46.25
25th Percentile £25.94 £25.31 £48.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.26 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -25.66% +19.07% -13.09%
75th Percentile £64.75 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £66.14 - £76.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -14.63% -27.36% +25.43%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AMQP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

AMQP job vacancy trend in the South West

AMQP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AMQP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AMQP

AMQP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Gloucestershire -1 9 £550 +2.33% 3
AMQP
England

AMQP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (100.00%) npm
2 6 (66.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (55.56%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
1 9 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Applications Support
2 7 (77.78%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) CentOS
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Data Centre Operations
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (55.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
5 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
5 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
6 3 (33.33%) DataOps
6 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
7 2 (22.22%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle