MQTT Job Trends in the West Midlands

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring MQTT skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 217 195
Rank change year-on-year +46 -22 +104
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 1 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.031% 0.017% 0.078%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 0.13% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,250 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £85,750 - £61,875
90th Percentile - - £66,000
England median annual salary £63,500 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.29% +33.33% -22.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 412 745 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.65% 12.31% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 322 371 550
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £31,461
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £47,500 £44,375
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% +7.04% -11.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £59,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% -3.85% -0.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing MQTT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for MQTT in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing MQTT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing MQTT

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MQTT within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Coventry - 1 £81,500 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (100.00%) Modbus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) NB-IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Edge Computing
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC