MQTT Contracts

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 580 681
Rank change year-on-year +76 +101 +110
Contract jobs citing MQTT 15 20 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.046% 0.054%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.40% 0.35% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 27
10th Percentile £466 £310 £500
25th Percentile £500 £325 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £390 £735
Median % change year-on-year +50.64% -46.94% +8.89%
75th Percentile £655 £431 £743
90th Percentile £688 £548 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £615 £403 £500
% change year-on-year +52.80% -19.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MQTT in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MQTT in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MQTT over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MQTT in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MQTT in the UK

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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 MQTT within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +55 12 £575 +47.44% 50
UK excluding London +47 6 £615 +52.80% 41
London +34 6 £500 +28.21% 13
Work from Home +48 5 £675 +82.43% 18
Midlands - 2 £650 - 5
South East - 2 £595 - 9
West Midlands - 2 £650 - 1
East of England +33 1 £454 - 7
Scotland - 1 £675 - 1

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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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AI
5 1 (6.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Modbus
2 3 (20.00%) Internet
3 2 (13.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) HTTP
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) 5G
4 1 (6.67%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) InfluxDB
2 1 (6.67%) Pinecone
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
2 1 (6.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MSI
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Automotive
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Electronics
2 1 (6.67%) Games
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Architect
2 7 (46.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) IT Architect
4 1 (6.67%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) PostGIS
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) Google JAX
3 1 (6.67%) Hugging Face
3 1 (6.67%) JAX
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) LangChain
3 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) IoT
2 5 (33.33%) Operational Technology
3 4 (26.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 4 (26.67%) SCADA
4 2 (13.33%) Cyberattack
4 2 (13.33%) Infotainment
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
5 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (6.67%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (6.67%) NB-IoT
5 1 (6.67%) PMI
5 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (13.33%) Edge Computing
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
3 2 (13.33%) Security Management
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (13.33%) Telematics
3 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (6.67%) Agile
4 1 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum
4 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Go
2 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) CSPO
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) NCSC
2 2 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) DataCore
1 1 (6.67%) Google
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) OpenAI
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat