MSMQ Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 300 343 462
Rank change year-on-year +43 +119 +155
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 4 2 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.013% 0.058%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.055% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £427
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -22.22% +22.73%
75th Percentile - - £731
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +35.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

MSMQ
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MSMQ trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MSMQ
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MSMQ daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MSMQ
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 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