MQTT Job Trends in the Midlands

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring MQTT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 230 289
Rank change year-on-year -23 +59 -37
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 14 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.097% 0.10% 0.094%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.89% 0.69% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £77,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £81,500 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -47.85% +78.14% -8.50%
75th Percentile £43,750 £85,750 £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £63,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.17% -5.93% +28.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 742 870 1,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.14% 15.02% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 589 526 817
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £25,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -10.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,000
England median annual salary £47,870 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.63% -15.00% -2.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

MQTT job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MQTT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MQTT

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MQTT within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
East Midlands -14 14 £42,500 - 1
MQTT
England

MQTT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS IoT
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Firewall
1 8 (57.14%) VPN
2 6 (42.86%) LoRaWAN
2 6 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (42.86%) Wireless
2 6 (42.86%) ZigBee
3 4 (28.57%) Bluetooth
3 4 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 4 (28.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) GDB
1 6 (42.86%) Git
1 6 (42.86%) GitLab
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
1 4 (28.57%) Law
1 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Applications Support
2 4 (28.57%) Applications Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Applications Support
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) IoT Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Yocto
2 4 (28.57%) pytest
2 4 (28.57%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) IoT
2 6 (42.86%) ARM Cortex
2 6 (42.86%) Device Driver
2 6 (42.86%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (28.57%) Driving Licence
3 4 (28.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
2 4 (28.57%) VMS
2 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) High Availability
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) BDD
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 6 (42.86%) Software Delivery
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Validation
3 4 (28.57%) AI
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) C
2 6 (42.86%) C++
3 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
1 6 (42.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) JTAG
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (28.57%) vSphere
2 2 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Galera Cluster
1 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Google