MQTT Job Trends in England

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring MQTT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 703 609 696
Rank change year-on-year -94 +87 +13
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 55 26 48
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.055% 0.060% 0.070%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.80% 0.40% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 35 11 23
10th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £55,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £63,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -9.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,375 £71,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £85,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% - +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,907 6,554 8,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.92% 15.07% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,568 3,656 4,604
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,913 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,125
UK median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -2.91%

MQTT
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

MQTT job vacancy trend in England

MQTT
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MQTT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MQTT

MQTT
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MQTT in England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for MQTT in England

MQTT
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MQTT within the England region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
South East -17 15 £67,500 +17.39% 14
East of England - 15 £72,500 - 3
East Midlands -15 14 £42,500 -
Midlands -37 14 £42,500 -47.85% 2
North of England -53 5 £31,500 -64.00% 5
London -63 4 - - 23
Yorkshire -44 3 £31,500 -64.00% 1
North East - 2 £50,000 - 2
South West - 2 £88,750 - 4
MQTT
UK

MQTT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Lightworks
2 4 (7.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 38 (69.09%) Azure
2 16 (29.09%) AWS
3 14 (25.45%) Azure Service Bus
4 13 (23.64%) GCP
5 9 (16.36%) Serverless
6 6 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.27%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.45%) AWS IoT
8 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.45%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (1.82%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) Wireless
2 8 (14.55%) Firewall
2 8 (14.55%) VPN
3 6 (10.91%) LoRaWAN
3 6 (10.91%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (10.91%) ZigBee
4 4 (7.27%) Bluetooth
4 4 (7.27%) DNS
5 3 (5.45%) AMQP
5 3 (5.45%) Ethernet
5 3 (5.45%) Network Security
6 2 (3.64%) HTTP
6 2 (3.64%) Modbus
6 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.82%) Internet
7 1 (1.82%) RS-422
7 1 (1.82%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.27%) MySQL
2 4 (7.27%) Neo4j
2 4 (7.27%) Power BI
3 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.64%) GIS
5 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (32.73%) Git
2 11 (20.00%) GitLab
3 6 (10.91%) GDB
3 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.27%) Robot Framework
5 3 (5.45%) PetaLinux
5 3 (5.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.82%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Finance
2 7 (12.73%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Law
4 2 (3.64%) Electronics
5 1 (1.82%) Automotive
5 1 (1.82%) Aviation
5 1 (1.82%) Games
5 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 16 (29.09%) Senior
3 13 (23.64%) Developer
4 12 (21.82%) Python Developer
5 10 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 10 (18.18%) Senior Python Developer
6 9 (16.36%) Embedded Engineer
6 9 (16.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Support
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Applications Support
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Support Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Support Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Architect
8 3 (5.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) IoT Software Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (49.09%) Kafka
2 17 (30.91%) RESTful
3 16 (29.09%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (27.27%) FastAPI
5 14 (25.45%) OpenAPI
5 14 (25.45%) Swagger
6 11 (20.00%) Terraform
7 9 (16.36%) Yocto
8 8 (14.55%) REST
9 7 (12.73%) gRPC
10 6 (10.91%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (7.27%) pytest
11 4 (7.27%) Unity DI Container
12 3 (5.45%) Keycloak
12 3 (5.45%) WebSockets
13 2 (3.64%) ActiveMQ
13 2 (3.64%) JMS
13 2 (3.64%) JSON
13 2 (3.64%) Node.js
13 2 (3.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 23 (41.82%) IoT
2 14 (25.45%) Cloud Native
3 11 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (12.73%) Robotics
5 6 (10.91%) ARM Cortex
5 6 (10.91%) Device Driver
5 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
6 4 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (7.27%) Driving Licence
6 4 (7.27%) Replication
7 3 (5.45%) FPGA
7 3 (5.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (5.45%) Verilog
7 3 (5.45%) VHDL
8 2 (3.64%) Blog
8 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 2 (3.64%) SCADA
9 1 (1.82%) GNSS
9 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 27 (49.09%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Ubuntu
2 4 (7.27%) VMS
2 4 (7.27%) Windows
2 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.45%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (3.64%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) Containerisation
1 24 (43.64%) Problem-Solving
1 24 (43.64%) Software Engineering
2 23 (41.82%) Mentoring
3 22 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 21 (38.18%) Event-Driven
4 21 (38.18%) Validation
5 20 (36.36%) API Design
6 17 (30.91%) Roadmaps
7 16 (29.09%) Clean Code
8 15 (27.27%) AI
8 15 (27.27%) DevOps
9 14 (25.45%) Acceptance Criteria
9 14 (25.45%) Continuous Delivery
10 12 (21.82%) Edge Computing
10 12 (21.82%) Microservices
10 12 (21.82%) Test Automation
11 11 (20.00%) High Availability
12 10 (18.18%) Systems Engineering
13 9 (16.36%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 43 (78.18%) Python
2 12 (21.82%) Rust
3 10 (18.18%) C
4 9 (16.36%) C++
4 9 (16.36%) Java
4 9 (16.36%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.91%) SQL
6 4 (7.27%) Bash
6 4 (7.27%) MATLAB
6 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.64%) C#
7 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.82%) Go
8 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Degree
2 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 10 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 8 (14.55%) Master's Degree
5 6 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) JTAG
2 3 (5.45%) ECSS
System Software
1 25 (45.45%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.27%) vSphere
3 3 (5.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.36%) Ansible
3 5 (9.09%) Podman
3 5 (9.09%) Puppet
4 4 (7.27%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (7.27%) vCenter Server
5 3 (5.45%) Grafana
5 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.82%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) NVIDIA
2 4 (7.27%) VMware
3 3 (5.45%) Tenable
3 3 (5.45%) Xilinx
4 2 (3.64%) Cognizant
4 2 (3.64%) Google
4 2 (3.64%) IBM
4 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.64%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco
5 1 (1.82%) MathWorks
5 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) SAP