Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring MSMQ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MSMQ over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 864 936
Rank change year-on-year +164 +72 +267
Permanent jobs citing MSMQ 11 31 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.031% 0.043%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 11 29 30
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -16.98% +32.50%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £75,750
90th Percentile - - £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +13.64% -16.98% +32.50%

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 9,557 21,067 30,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.21% 21.24% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,219 15,745 18,516
10th Percentile £37,747 £36,250 £40,835
25th Percentile £50,300 £45,000 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +6.30%
75th Percentile £86,625 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

MSMQ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MSMQ in the UK

MSMQ
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for MSMQ in the UK

MSMQ
Top 4 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 16 May 2025. 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 +169 11 £62,500 +13.64% 10
England +132 11 £62,500 +13.64% 10
South East +96 11 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Work from Home +112 1 £57,500 -4.17% 2

MSMQ
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 11 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 11 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 11 (100.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 11 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 11 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 11 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
1 11 (100.00%) API Design
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 11 (100.00%) Microservices
1 11 (100.00%) MVC
1 11 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
1 11 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes