Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MQTT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 745 647 693
Rank change year-on-year -98 +46 +27
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 63 33 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.066% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.80% 0.46% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 46 14 44
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,250 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,500 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,525 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £52,500 £27,500
% change year-on-year +38.10% +90.91% -45.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,896 7,168 8,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.70% 14.40% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,845 3,965 4,338
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £28,742 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £39,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -25.71% +1.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,790 £83,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £34,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +32.35% -31.31% +10.00%

MQTT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MQTT job vacancy trend in the UK

MQTT
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MQTT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MQTT

MQTT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MQTT over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for MQTT in the UK

MQTT
Top 14 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 9 October 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
England -96 62 £72,500 +14.17% 68
UK excluding London -104 59 £72,500 +38.10% 52
East of England - 22 £72,500 - 4
South East -43 17 £67,500 +22.73% 13
Midlands -39 12 £42,500 -47.85% 9
East Midlands -28 11 £42,500 - 2
Work from Home -24 8 £82,500 +57.14% 32
North of England -72 5 £31,500 -64.00% 10
London -65 4 £57,500 -9.45% 25
Yorkshire -34 3 £31,500 -64.00% 2
North East - 2 £50,000 - 3
South West - 2 £88,750 - 3
Scotland +10 1 £105,000 - 6
West Midlands -41 1 £85,000 +4.29% 7

MQTT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (11.11%) Lightworks
2 6 (9.52%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 42 (66.67%) Azure
2 20 (31.75%) Azure Service Bus
3 17 (26.98%) AWS
4 14 (22.22%) GCP
5 9 (14.29%) Serverless
6 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.76%) AWS IoT
8 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.76%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.59%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (1.59%) GitHub
10 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) Wireless
2 6 (9.52%) VPN
2 6 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (9.52%) ZigBee
3 5 (7.94%) DNS
3 5 (7.94%) Firewall
3 5 (7.94%) Modbus
4 4 (6.35%) Bluetooth
4 4 (6.35%) Ethernet
4 4 (6.35%) LoRaWAN
4 4 (6.35%) Network Security
5 3 (4.76%) AMQP
5 3 (4.76%) HTTP
5 3 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.59%) DHCP
6 1 (1.59%) GPON
6 1 (1.59%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.59%) LAN
6 1 (1.59%) WAN
6 1 (1.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.35%) Power BI
3 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.59%) GIS
5 1 (1.59%) MySQL
5 1 (1.59%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 19 (30.16%) Git
2 11 (17.46%) GitLab
3 6 (9.52%) GDB
3 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.35%) PetaLinux
4 4 (6.35%) Robot Framework
5 3 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.59%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.35%) Finance
3 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.17%) Electronics
5 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.59%) Automotive
5 1 (1.59%) Aviation
5 1 (1.59%) Law
5 1 (1.59%) Retail
5 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) Software Engineer
2 22 (34.92%) Senior
3 14 (22.22%) Developer
4 13 (20.63%) Python Developer
5 11 (17.46%) Senior Developer
5 11 (17.46%) Senior Python Developer
6 10 (15.87%) Embedded Engineer
6 10 (15.87%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) Python Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Applications Support
8 4 (6.35%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Applications Support
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Support Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (52.38%) Kafka
2 23 (36.51%) RESTful
3 22 (34.92%) RabbitMQ
4 21 (33.33%) FastAPI
5 20 (31.75%) OpenAPI
5 20 (31.75%) Swagger
6 11 (17.46%) Terraform
7 10 (15.87%) Yocto
8 9 (14.29%) REST
9 7 (11.11%) gRPC
9 7 (11.11%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (6.35%) pytest
10 4 (6.35%) Unity DI Container
11 3 (4.76%) JSON
11 3 (4.76%) Keycloak
11 3 (4.76%) React
11 3 (4.76%) WebSockets
12 2 (3.17%) Django
12 2 (3.17%) JMS
12 2 (3.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.92%) IoT
2 21 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 12 (19.05%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (11.11%) Robotics
5 6 (9.52%) ARM Cortex
5 6 (9.52%) Device Driver
5 6 (9.52%) Product Ownership
6 5 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (6.35%) FPGA
7 4 (6.35%) Verilog
7 4 (6.35%) VHDL
8 3 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
9 2 (3.17%) Blog
9 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
9 2 (3.17%) Operational Technology
9 2 (3.17%) SCADA
10 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
10 1 (1.59%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (1.59%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 25 (39.68%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) FreeRTOS
2 4 (6.35%) VMS
2 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.17%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (47.62%) Containerisation
1 30 (47.62%) Software Engineering
2 28 (44.44%) Validation
3 27 (42.86%) Event-Driven
4 26 (41.27%) API Design
4 26 (41.27%) Mentoring
5 23 (36.51%) CI/CD
5 23 (36.51%) Roadmaps
6 22 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (33.33%) Clean Code
8 19 (30.16%) Acceptance Criteria
8 19 (30.16%) Continuous Delivery
9 17 (26.98%) AI
10 15 (23.81%) DevOps
11 14 (22.22%) Test Automation
12 12 (19.05%) Edge Computing
12 12 (19.05%) Microservices
13 9 (14.29%) Agile
13 9 (14.29%) DevSecOps
13 9 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (79.37%) Python
2 13 (20.63%) Rust
3 10 (15.87%) C
3 10 (15.87%) C++
4 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.70%) Java
6 6 (9.52%) MATLAB
6 6 (9.52%) SQL
7 4 (6.35%) Bash
7 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.17%) C#
8 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.59%) Go
9 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (23.81%) Degree
2 11 (17.46%) Security Cleared
3 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
4 9 (14.29%) Master's Degree
5 6 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) CCNA
6 1 (1.59%) CCNP
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) JTAG
2 5 (7.94%) ECSS
3 1 (1.59%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (49.21%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Firmware
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (50.79%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.29%) Ansible
3 5 (7.94%) Podman
3 5 (7.94%) Puppet
4 3 (4.76%) Grafana
4 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) Functional Safety
5 1 (1.59%) Galera Cluster
5 1 (1.59%) MOM
5 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.35%) NVIDIA
2 4 (6.35%) Xilinx
3 3 (4.76%) Tenable
4 2 (3.17%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) IBM
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.59%) Aruba
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) Huawei
5 1 (1.59%) MathWorks
5 1 (1.59%) Meraki
5 1 (1.59%) Nokia
5 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.59%) Ruckus Wireless
5 1 (1.59%) VMware