MQTT Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MQTT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 360 406
Rank change year-on-year -14 +46 +84
Contract jobs citing MQTT 7 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.040% 0.024%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 0.27% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £430 £445 £403
25th Percentile £456 £475 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £571 £656 £531
90th Percentile £614 £705 £588
UK median daily rate £600 £475 £663
% change year-on-year +26.32% -28.30% -9.86%

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 2,104 2,546 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.32% 14.65% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,362 1,394 2,165
10th Percentile £191 £200 £206
25th Percentile £300 £332 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +1.60% +4.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £643 £659 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 152 269
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £16.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.91 £24.50
Median hourly rate £42.22 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.58% -8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £68.61
90th Percentile £81.52 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.92% -14.04% +37.73%

MQTT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

MQTT job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

MQTT
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

MQTT
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 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MQTT in the UK excluding London

MQTT
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

MQTT
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 12 October 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
Scotland - 3 £425 -
East of England - 2 - - 4
Midlands -17 1 £500 -31.03%
South East - 1 £635 - 8
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
MQTT
UK

MQTT
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Bluetooth
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) Modbus
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) UWB
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (14.29%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Gradle
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) PCB Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Loki
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) Data Munging
2 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Schematic Capture
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) logstash
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) Siemens