Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MQTT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MQTT over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 823 930 1078
Rank change year-on-year +107 +148 -259
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 73 40 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.038% 0.100%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.54% 0.25% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 46 25 92
10th Percentile £31,250 - £48,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -13.22% +10.00%
75th Percentile £74,688 £62,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

MQTT is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

MQTT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MQTT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MQTT in the UK

MQTT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MQTT.

Salary trend for MQTT in the UK

MQTT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MQTT over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MQTT in the UK

MQTT
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MQTT within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +50 71 £57,500 +9.52% 16
England +132 57 £57,500 +9.52% 17
North of England +74 31 £57,500 +9.52% 2
Work from Home +92 24 £58,500 +11.43% 3
North West - 15 £57,500 -
Yorkshire +98 13 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Midlands +18 11 £58,500 +17.00% 5
West Midlands +33 8 £58,500 +17.00% 2
East of England 0 8 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Scotland - 8 £50,000 -
South East +35 6 £80,000 +56.10% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 1
North East - 3 £35,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £42,500 - 3
London +128 1 £80,000 - 1
Wales +12 1 £27,500 -

MQTT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (6.85%) nginx
2 1 (1.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.73%) AWS
2 17 (23.29%) Azure
2 17 (23.29%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (10.96%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (10.96%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (8.22%) AWS IoT
4 6 (8.22%) GCP
4 6 (8.22%) GitHub
5 5 (6.85%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.48%) Serverless
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.37%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.37%) Firebase
8 1 (1.37%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 25 (34.25%) HTTP
2 18 (24.66%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (19.18%) RS-485
3 14 (19.18%) Wireless
4 12 (16.44%) 3G
4 12 (16.44%) 4G
5 8 (10.96%) TCP/IP
6 7 (9.59%) LoRaWAN
7 6 (8.22%) LTE
7 6 (8.22%) VPN
8 5 (6.85%) Bluetooth
8 5 (6.85%) Modbus
8 5 (6.85%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (4.11%) Ethernet
9 3 (4.11%) HTTPS
10 2 (2.74%) ZigBee
11 1 (1.37%) DHCP
11 1 (1.37%) DNS
11 1 (1.37%) GPRS
11 1 (1.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.07%) NoSQL
2 9 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.96%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (10.96%) MySQL
4 4 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.11%) Big Data
5 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (32.88%) Git
2 5 (6.85%) Bitbucket
2 5 (6.85%) Subversion
3 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Electronics
3 17 (23.29%) Manufacturing
4 16 (21.92%) Finance
4 16 (21.92%) Marketing
4 16 (21.92%) Public Sector
4 16 (21.92%) Telecoms
5 12 (16.44%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.37%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Automotive
6 1 (1.37%) Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.37%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (34.25%) Software Engineer
2 24 (32.88%) Embedded Engineer
3 23 (31.51%) Developer
4 17 (23.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 16 (21.92%) Senior
6 13 (17.81%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Architect
7 6 (8.22%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Firmware Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Full Stack Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Software Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Full Stack Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (5.48%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 4 (5.48%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Operations Manager
9 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.88%) CSS
1 24 (32.88%) HTML
2 23 (31.51%) Node.js
3 17 (23.29%) React
3 17 (23.29%) REST
4 14 (19.18%) AngularJS
4 14 (19.18%) Flask
5 11 (15.07%) RESTful
6 8 (10.96%) Django
6 8 (10.96%) Web Services
7 6 (8.22%) GraphQL
7 6 (8.22%) Kafka
7 6 (8.22%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.85%) Apache Thrift
8 5 (6.85%) gRPC
8 5 (6.85%) JSON
8 5 (6.85%) Knex.js
8 5 (6.85%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (6.85%) React Native
8 5 (6.85%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 43 (58.90%) IoT
2 13 (17.81%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (15.07%) Arduino
4 8 (10.96%) Raspberry Pi
5 5 (6.85%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (6.85%) Mobile App
6 4 (5.48%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (5.48%) Robotics
7 3 (4.11%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (4.11%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.37%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (1.37%) CAN bus
8 1 (1.37%) Device Driver
8 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.37%) FPGA
8 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.37%) SCADA
8 1 (1.37%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 41 (56.16%) Linux
2 15 (20.55%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.74%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (60.27%) Software Engineering
2 23 (31.51%) Full Stack Development
3 22 (30.14%) User Experience
4 21 (28.77%) Computer Science
5 19 (26.03%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (24.66%) Agile
6 18 (24.66%) Analytics
6 18 (24.66%) Test Automation
7 17 (23.29%) OO
8 16 (21.92%) Digital Marketing
8 16 (21.92%) Microservices
8 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (21.92%) Programme Management
9 15 (20.55%) CI/CD
9 15 (20.55%) Web Development
10 14 (19.18%) Artificial Intelligence
10 14 (19.18%) Computer Vision
10 14 (19.18%) Data Analytics
10 14 (19.18%) DevOps
10 14 (19.18%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (53.42%) Python
2 37 (50.68%) JavaScript
3 30 (41.10%) SQL
4 28 (38.36%) C++
5 23 (31.51%) C
6 17 (23.29%) TypeScript
7 10 (13.70%) Java
8 7 (9.59%) C#
9 5 (6.85%) Embedded C
9 5 (6.85%) JSX
9 5 (6.85%) R
10 4 (5.48%) Embedded C++
11 3 (4.11%) Ruby
12 2 (2.74%) Rust
13 1 (1.37%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 28 (38.36%) Degree
2 13 (17.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.22%) HND
3 6 (8.22%) Master's Degree
3 6 (8.22%) PhD
4 1 (1.37%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.37%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) GDPR
2 9 (12.33%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.37%) JTAG
3 1 (1.37%) MISRA
3 1 (1.37%) MISRA C
System Software
1 27 (36.99%) Firmware
2 9 (12.33%) Docker
3 8 (10.96%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.74%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 19 (26.03%) SAP
2 8 (10.96%) NVIDIA
3 7 (9.59%) Google
4 3 (4.11%) Siemens
4 3 (4.11%) Telerik
5 1 (1.37%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (1.37%) AVEVA
5 1 (1.37%) QNX
5 1 (1.37%) Renesas
5 1 (1.37%) Rockwell