Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring MQTT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MQTT over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 764 853 1097
Rank change year-on-year +89 +244 -191
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 78 34 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.042% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.70% 0.26% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 46 23 122
10th Percentile £23,750 £43,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £52,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -22.22% +22.73%
75th Percentile £74,688 £62,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,500 -
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 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 11,133 12,974 22,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.08% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 7,381 12,357
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,083 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +12 68 £57,500 +9.52% 8
England +61 60 £67,500 +28.57% 12
North of England +36 32 £57,500 +9.52%
North West +5 18 £57,500 +9.52%
Work from Home +47 17 £70,000 +40.00% 6
Yorkshire - 13 - -
Northern Ireland - 11 - -
London +83 10 £70,000 - 4
South East +11 8 £80,000 +56.10% 5
Midlands -16 8 £45,750 -8.50% 1
Wales - 6 £27,500 -
West Midlands -2 4 £67,500 +35.00%
East Midlands -24 4 £42,500 +41.67% 1
East of England -13 2 £35,000 -36.36% 2
North East - 1 £35,000 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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 (6.41%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) OrCAD
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 48 (61.54%) AWS
2 25 (32.05%) Azure
3 17 (21.79%) GCP
4 13 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 13 (16.67%) GitHub
4 13 (16.67%) Serverless
5 10 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (10.26%) Amazon ELB
7 7 (8.97%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (8.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (7.69%) BrowserStack
8 6 (7.69%) Firebase
8 6 (7.69%) Sentry
9 5 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.13%) Datadog
11 3 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.56%) AWS IoT
12 2 (2.56%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 23 (29.49%) HTTP
2 17 (21.79%) RS-485
2 17 (21.79%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (20.51%) Wireless
4 15 (19.23%) 4G
4 15 (19.23%) TCP/IP
5 13 (16.67%) 3G
6 12 (15.38%) Modbus
7 8 (10.26%) VPN
8 5 (6.41%) Ethernet
8 5 (6.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (5.13%) Bluetooth
9 4 (5.13%) LoRaWAN
10 3 (3.85%) RS-232
11 2 (2.56%) 5G
11 2 (2.56%) LTE
11 2 (2.56%) SMS
11 2 (2.56%) VLAN
12 1 (1.28%) DNS
12 1 (1.28%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.64%) NoSQL
2 11 (14.10%) MongoDB
3 10 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (12.82%) MySQL
3 10 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.69%) Redis
5 4 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (5.13%) DocumentDB
5 4 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.85%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.28%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 14 (17.95%) Git
2 6 (7.69%) MSI
2 6 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (5.13%) GitLab
3 4 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.85%) JIRA
4 3 (3.85%) Subversion
5 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.38%) Mandarin Language
3 9 (11.54%) Electronics
4 8 (10.26%) Finance
4 8 (10.26%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.26%) Marketing
4 8 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.26%) Telecoms
5 6 (7.69%) Agriculture
6 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.28%) Automotive
7 1 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (38.46%) Software Engineer
2 21 (26.92%) Embedded Engineer
3 18 (23.08%) Developer
3 18 (23.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 17 (21.79%) Senior
5 12 (15.38%) Architect
6 11 (14.10%) Software Architect
7 10 (12.82%) Full Stack Developer
8 7 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Backend Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Senior Full Stack Developer
11 4 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) AWS Software Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) CloudOps Manager
11 4 (5.13%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Firmware Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Operations Manager
11 4 (5.13%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (46.15%) Node.js
2 21 (26.92%) HTML
3 20 (25.64%) REST
4 18 (23.08%) RESTful
4 18 (23.08%) Web Services
5 17 (21.79%) JSON
6 15 (19.23%) AngularJS
6 15 (19.23%) CSS
6 15 (19.23%) Kafka
7 13 (16.67%) GraphQL
7 13 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (14.10%) React
9 7 (8.97%) Express.js
9 7 (8.97%) gRPC
9 7 (8.97%) React Native
9 7 (8.97%) Sequelize
10 6 (7.69%) HTML5
10 6 (7.69%) JWT
10 6 (7.69%) Middleware
11 5 (6.41%) Knex.js
Miscellaneous
1 43 (55.13%) IoT
2 20 (25.64%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (6.41%) Mobile App
5 4 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.85%) Arduino
7 2 (2.56%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.56%) NB-IoT
7 2 (2.56%) Robotics
8 1 (1.28%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.28%) FPGA
8 1 (1.28%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.28%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (1.28%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 42 (53.85%) Linux
2 17 (21.79%) Embedded Linux
3 7 (8.97%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (58.97%) Software Engineering
2 25 (32.05%) Microservices
3 21 (26.92%) Agile
3 21 (26.92%) User Experience
4 19 (24.36%) DevOps
5 18 (23.08%) OO
6 17 (21.79%) Computer Science
6 17 (21.79%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (21.79%) Test Automation
7 16 (20.51%) Software Testing
8 15 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 15 (19.23%) Product Management
9 14 (17.95%) Analytics
9 14 (17.95%) Full Stack Development
10 13 (16.67%) OOD
11 12 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (15.38%) Computer Vision
11 12 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
11 12 (15.38%) Data Analytics
12 11 (14.10%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (48.72%) Python
2 32 (41.03%) JavaScript
3 26 (33.33%) C++
4 23 (29.49%) SQL
5 19 (24.36%) C
6 15 (19.23%) Java
7 12 (15.38%) TypeScript
8 5 (6.41%) C#
8 5 (6.41%) JSX
8 5 (6.41%) R
9 4 (5.13%) Bash
10 3 (3.85%) Embedded C
10 3 (3.85%) Ruby
11 2 (2.56%) Assembly Language
11 2 (2.56%) Embedded C++
12 1 (1.28%) Delphi
12 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (32.05%) Degree
2 11 (14.10%) Master's Degree
2 11 (14.10%) PhD
3 6 (7.69%) HND
4 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.28%) CCNA
5 1 (1.28%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.28%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.23%) QA
2 13 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.28%) JTAG
System Software
1 20 (25.64%) Docker
2 16 (20.51%) Firmware
3 5 (6.41%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.13%) Terraform
3 2 (2.56%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 25 (32.05%) Google
2 9 (11.54%) SAP
3 2 (2.56%) Atmel
3 2 (2.56%) Freescale
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.28%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (1.28%) Aruba
4 1 (1.28%) AVEVA
4 1 (1.28%) Cisco
4 1 (1.28%) HP
4 1 (1.28%) Meraki
4 1 (1.28%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.28%) QNX
4 1 (1.28%) Rockwell
4 1 (1.28%) Siemens