AMQP Contract Job Trends

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AMQP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 - 576
Rank change year-on-year - - +118
Contract jobs citing AMQP 6 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% - 0.033%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile £458 - £425
25th Percentile £525 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £625 - £575
90th Percentile - - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -19.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,536 3,727 5,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.55% 12.76% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,807 2,290 3,273
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -1.52% -4.16%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 168 418
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.92 £16.44
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.79 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.93% -20.53% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £57.80 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £24.66 £46.14
% change year-on-year +97.57% -46.55% +153.28%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AMQP job vacancy trend in the UK

AMQP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AMQP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AMQP over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AMQP in the UK

AMQP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

AMQP
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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
England - 5 £575 -
UK excluding London - 5 £575 - 1
South West - 4 £588 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
Work from Home - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £425 -

AMQP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (16.67%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) npm
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) InfluxDB
2 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) Maven
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) JMS
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) RAML
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) DataOps
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Grafana
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft