Messaging Engineer Contracts

Messaging Engineer
UK

The median Messaging Engineer daily rate in the UK is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 568 706
Rank change year-on-year +60 +138 +137
Contract jobs requiring a Messaging Engineer 12 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.032% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.035% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 9
10th Percentile £419 £456 £363
25th Percentile £472 £488 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £575
90th Percentile £594 £598 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £365
% change year-on-year -3.67% +49.32% +47.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Messaging Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Messaging Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Messaging Engineer in the UK

Messaging Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Messaging Engineer in the UK

Messaging Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Messaging Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Messaging Engineer in the UK

Messaging Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Messaging Engineer in the UK

Messaging Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Messaging Engineer within the UK 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
England +58 12 £513 -6.82% 7
UK excluding London +64 10 £525 -3.67% 7
North of England - 5 - - 4
North West - 5 - - 4
East of England +26 4 £538 -1.38%
Work from Home +40 2 £450 -26.53% 6
London +37 2 £475 -22.45% 1
Midlands - 1 £375 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £375 - 1

Messaging Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Messaging Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Messaging Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (91.67%) Skype for Business
2 11 (91.67%) Skype
3 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
4 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (58.33%) Problem Management
4 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (50.00%) Cisco
6 5 (41.67%) B2B
6 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
6 5 (41.67%) Blackberry
6 5 (41.67%) Linux
6 5 (41.67%) SQL
6 5 (41.67%) ITIL
6 5 (41.67%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
6 5 (41.67%) Softphone
6 5 (41.67%) SCOM
6 5 (41.67%) XMPP
6 5 (41.67%) Unified Communications
6 5 (41.67%) Splunk
6 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
6 5 (41.67%) Mattermost
6 5 (41.67%) WebEx
6 5 (41.67%) Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (33.33%) Cohesity
7 4 (33.33%) IMAP
7 4 (33.33%) VMware

Messaging Engineer Skill Set
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 11 (91.67%) Skype for Business
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (41.67%) Mattermost
4 4 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
6 1 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Cohesity
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Skype
2 5 (41.67%) Softphone
2 5 (41.67%) Unified Communications
2 5 (41.67%) WebEx
3 4 (33.33%) IMAP
3 4 (33.33%) SAN
3 4 (33.33%) SMTP
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Electronics
4 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (16.67%) Marketing
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (8.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Blackberry
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) BYOD
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem Management
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) B2B
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Capacity Management
5 1 (8.33%) Information Security
5 1 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Server Building
5 1 (8.33%) Service Catalogue
5 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCOM
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (16.67%) Forefront Identity Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
3 5 (41.67%) Splunk
4 4 (33.33%) NetApp
4 4 (33.33%) VMware
5 2 (16.67%) SAP
6 1 (8.33%) Citrix
6 1 (8.33%) Fujitsu
6 1 (8.33%) Proofpoint