AMQP Contracts

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring AMQP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AMQP over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 563 670
Rank change year-on-year +15 +107 +186
Contract jobs citing AMQP 8 18 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.043% 0.009%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.20% 0.34% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 4
10th Percentile £393 £494 -
25th Percentile £441 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £758 £675
90th Percentile - £850 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 4,028 5,251 7,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.27% 12.48% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,428 3,120 4,588
10th Percentile £235 £213 £231
25th Percentile £375 £357 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £594 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 401 322
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.50 £10.63
25th Percentile £20.89 £16.86 £15.75
Median hourly rate £46.25 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -11.11% +57.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.30 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.48 £47.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year -12.68% -16.67% +147.83%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AMQP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AMQP in the UK

AMQP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AMQP.

Daily rate trend for AMQP in the UK

AMQP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AMQP over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AMQP in the UK

AMQP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AMQP.

Hourly rate trend for AMQP in the UK

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Top 5 Contract 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 19 July 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
UK excluding London +30 4 £550 - 11
England +26 4 £550 -8.33% 16
South West +33 2 £550 - 8
Scotland - 2 £373 - 1
London +33 1 £485 -34.01% 6

AMQP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (75.00%) Anypoint
1 6 (75.00%) Mule
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) npm
2 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) InfluxDB
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
2 6 (75.00%) GitLab
2 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Integration Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Applications Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (75.00%) Apache Camel
1 6 (75.00%) JWT
1 6 (75.00%) Kafka
1 6 (75.00%) OAuth
1 6 (75.00%) OAuth2
1 6 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (75.00%) SOAP
1 6 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (37.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Clustering
3 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) CentOS
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) API Design
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 6 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Data Enrichment
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) DataWeave
3 2 (25.00%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle