AMQP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring AMQP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AMQP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.059% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £518 £575
% change year-on-year -3.38% -10.00% -8.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 321 192 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.43% 12.43% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 107 219
10th Percentile £210 £235 £210
25th Percentile £306 £313 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £594
90th Percentile £613 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 17
10th Percentile £18.67 £18.76 £10.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £27.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £58.00 £30.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.33% +114.29% -37.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.74 £23.75
90th Percentile £70.30 £43.70 £25.75
England median hourly rate £26.66 £40.50 £45.44
% change year-on-year -34.17% -10.87% +89.33%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

AMQP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

AMQP
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AMQP

AMQP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
Herefordshire - 1 £425 -
Warwickshire - 1 - - 1
AMQP
England

AMQP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
1 1 (50.00%) OpenVPN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (50.00%) Industry 4.0
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Twin
2 1 (50.00%) Edge AI
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform