MQTT Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 299 338 466
Rank change year-on-year +39 +128 +135
Contract jobs citing MQTT 5 7 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.046% 0.043%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% 0.43% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £648 £306 -
25th Percentile £653 £311 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £370 £668
Median % change year-on-year +82.43% -44.57% +9.88%
75th Percentile £688 £418 £758
90th Percentile - £500 -
UK median daily rate £588 £390 £735
% change year-on-year +50.64% -46.94% +8.89%
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 median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -29.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MQTT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MQTT trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MQTT.

MQTT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MQTT.

MQTT hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
1 1 (20.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IoT Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Google JAX
1 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (20.00%) JAX
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) LangChain
1 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) IoT
2 2 (40.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (40.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (40.00%) SCADA
3 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (20.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (20.00%) PMI
3 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Game Theory
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (20.00%) Market Research
3 1 (20.00%) Neural Network
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) SysML
3 1 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) CSPO
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI