MSMQ Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 101 - 150
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.066% - 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.36% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +83.33%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 - £413
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 275 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 13.66% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 234 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £27.11 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £62.00 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing MSMQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for MSMQ in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MSMQ in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for MSMQ in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MSMQ in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for MSMQ in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSMQ within the Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £550 -
MSMQ
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) EDI
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow