MQTT Contracts in the UK excluding London

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MQTT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MQTT 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 330 386 455
Rank change year-on-year +56 +69 +38
Contract jobs citing MQTT 6 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.063% 0.029%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 0.38% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £497 £306 £450
25th Percentile £563 £322 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £403 £500
Median % change year-on-year +52.80% -19.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £688 £429 £566
90th Percentile £710 £559 £606
UK median daily rate £588 £390 £735
% change year-on-year +50.64% -46.94% +8.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,965 3,454 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.39% 16.63% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,982 2,287
10th Percentile £200 £204 £207
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 358 328
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.48 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MQTT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MQTT in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MQTT in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MQTT in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MQTT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MQTT in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MQTT in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MQTT in the UK excluding London

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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 MQTT within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands - 2 £650 - 18
South East - 2 £595 - 29
West Midlands - 2 £650 - 9
East of England +30 1 £454 - 24
Scotland - 1 £675 - 7
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) Modbus
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) 5G
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) InfluxDB
General
1 2 (33.33%) Automotive
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) IoT Architect
3 1 (16.67%) IT Architect
3 1 (16.67%) IT Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PostGIS
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 3 (50.00%) IoT
1 3 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 3 (50.00%) SCADA
2 2 (33.33%) Infotainment
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
3 1 (16.67%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 2 (33.33%) Edge Computing
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (33.33%) Telematics
1 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
2 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Predictive Maintenance
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Security Management
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Use Case
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) DataCore