MQTT Contracts in the West Midlands

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 95 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing MQTT 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.15% - 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.40% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.48%
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £390 £735
% change year-on-year +47.44% -46.94% +1.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 143 395 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.63% 20.29% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 232 218
10th Percentile £145 £201 £263
25th Percentile £263 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 6
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £13.50 £13.13
Median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +19.10% +1.52%
75th Percentile £19.65 £23.75 £20.58
90th Percentile £35.95 £28.75 £21.80
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing MQTT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for MQTT in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for MQTT in the West Midlands

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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 MQTT within the West Midlands region 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
Coventry - 2 £650 - 1
MQTT
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Modbus
2 1 (50.00%) 5G
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) LoRaWAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) IoT Architect
2 1 (50.00%) IT Architect
2 1 (50.00%) IT Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (100.00%) SCADA
2 1 (50.00%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Edge Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC