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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 624 662
Rank change year-on-year +24 +38 +240
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 11 54 17
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.021% 0.11% 0.036%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 0.83% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5 34 17
10th Percentile - £57,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £64,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +19.66% +11.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £77,500 £75,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -21.43% +30.23% -6.52%

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 8,854 6,526 6,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.94% 13.40% 14.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,475 3,421 5,424
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,697 £40,000 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 +25 7 £62,500 +19.05% 7
London +23 2 - - 6
East of England +27 1 - - 2
North of England +18 1 £75,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £75,000 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (18.18%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) Dagster
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
2 4 (36.36%) Modbus
3 2 (18.18%) BGP
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (18.18%) Firewall
3 2 (18.18%) OSPF
3 2 (18.18%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (18.18%) RTMP
3 2 (18.18%) VLAN
3 2 (18.18%) VPN
3 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (18.18%) Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Metadata
4 1 (9.09%) ClickHouse
4 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
4 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) Jaeger
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) MLflow
1 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
2 3 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (18.18%) Agriculture
3 2 (18.18%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Implementation Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) Middleware
2 3 (27.27%) SOAP
3 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
3 2 (18.18%) Keycloak
3 2 (18.18%) Next.js
3 2 (18.18%) WebRTC
4 1 (9.09%) Django
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) React
4 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) IoT
2 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 4 (36.36%) SCADA
3 3 (27.27%) Life Science
3 3 (27.27%) LIMS
3 3 (27.27%) Operational Technology
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
4 2 (18.18%) MPEG
4 2 (18.18%) Robotics
5 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Data Integration
1 7 (63.64%) Data Pipeline
1 7 (63.64%) Validation
2 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (36.36%) ERP
2 4 (36.36%) System Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Biotechnology
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Data Management
3 3 (27.27%) Data Science
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) Informatics
3 3 (27.27%) Information Management
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 3 (27.27%) GxP
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) NFS
3 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Argo
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Agilent
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) MikroTik
3 2 (18.18%) NETGEAR
3 2 (18.18%) Sonatype
3 2 (18.18%) Starlink
3 2 (18.18%) Ubiquiti