AMQP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AMQP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 362 417
Rank change year-on-year -23 +55 +89
Contract jobs citing AMQP 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.012% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% 0.080% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £427 £536 -
25th Percentile £525 £542 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -12.50% -11.86%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £675
90th Percentile - £617 -
UK median daily rate £550 £668 £800
% change year-on-year -17.60% -16.56% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,222 2,488 3,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.33% 14.87% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,457 1,364 2,214
10th Percentile £190 £200 £205
25th Percentile £300 £336 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £588
90th Percentile £643 £655 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 132 282
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.65 £16.77
25th Percentile £18.50 £26.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -9.28% +25.53%
75th Percentile £66.69 £69.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £48.03 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.13% -12.67% +35.55%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AMQP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AMQP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AMQP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AMQP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AMQP

AMQP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AMQP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AMQP in the UK excluding London

AMQP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AMQP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AMQP

AMQP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West +12 4 £550 -3.30% 2
Scotland - 2 £373 -
AMQP
UK

AMQP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Anypoint
1 2 (33.33%) Mule
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) npm
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Maven
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
1 2 (33.33%) JWT
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) CentOS
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) API Design
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) C
2 2 (33.33%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft