MQTT Contract Job Trends in the South West

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring MQTT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 129 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing MQTT 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.044% 0.043% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.39% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
England median daily rate £618 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +30.00% +11.76% -42.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 256 355 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.27% 15.16% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 220 276
10th Percentile £225 £306 £229
25th Percentile £325 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £650
90th Percentile £715 £675 £723
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 70
10th Percentile £15.62 £11.75 £45.71
25th Percentile £23.59 £38.13 £48.32
Median hourly rate £56.50 £67.02 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +18.64% -13.09%
75th Percentile £64.88 £75.00 £66.18
90th Percentile £66.42 - £76.25
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +26.38%

MQTT
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

MQTT job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

MQTT
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 MQTT within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 November 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
Wiltshire - 1 £600 -
MQTT
England

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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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware