MSMQ Job Trends

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
UK

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 698 701
Rank change year-on-year +50 +3 +315
Permanent jobs citing MSMQ 1 13 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.024% 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.014% 0.11% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 12
10th Percentile - £55,625 £44,625
25th Percentile - £57,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile - £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile - - £79,375
UK excluding London median annual salary - £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

MSMQ falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,112 11,568 13,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,285 6,811 11,185
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

MSMQ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MSMQ job vacancy trend in the UK

MSMQ
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MSMQ.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MSMQ

MSMQ
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MSMQ within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Work from Home +66 1 £100,000 +70.21%
London +59 1 £100,000 -
England +49 1 £100,000 +60.00%

MSMQ
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL