MSMQ Contracts

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring MSMQ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MSMQ over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 579 702
Rank change year-on-year +63 +123 +136
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 4 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.007% 0.027%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.060% 0.034% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - £549 £434
25th Percentile - £584 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +35.00%
75th Percentile - £722 £731
90th Percentile - £761 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +52.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

MSMQ falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

MSMQ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MSMQ in the UK

MSMQ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MSMQ in the UK

MSMQ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MSMQ in the UK

MSMQ
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSMQ 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
Work from Home +43 4 £550 +4.76% 1
UK excluding London - 3 £550 -
England +56 2 £550 -15.38%
Scotland - 2 - -
London +36 1 - -
South East - 1 £550 -

MSMQ
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 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) EDI
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Derivative
1 2 (50.00%) Equities
1 2 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) MVVM
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (25.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCAD
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Sybase
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow