MQTT Job Trends in the East Midlands

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring MQTT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - 182
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 5 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.11% - 0.072%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.29% - 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £42,500
75th Percentile £43,750 - £46,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £63,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.24% +10.43% +9.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

MQTT falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 389 319 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.73% 19.32% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 180 163 453
10th Percentile £26,475 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £28,818
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.75% -3.98%
75th Percentile £45,000 £57,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,625 £61,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MQTT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

MQTT job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MQTT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MQTT

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MQTT within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire - 3 - - 1
Leicestershire - 2 £42,500 - 2
MQTT
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) Neo4j
3 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Law
1 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Applications Support
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) IoT
2 3 (60.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (60.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (40.00%) VMS
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Galera Cluster
1 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) VMware