Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AMQP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AMQP over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 712 844
Rank change year-on-year +128 +132 -151
Contract jobs citing AMQP 16 4 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.007% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.055% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £408 £603 £450
25th Percentile £422 £606 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £613
90th Percentile - £668 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% +35.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

AMQP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,525 7,311 9,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,306 4,755 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £240 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 473 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AMQP in the UK

AMQP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AMQP.

Daily rate trend for AMQP in the UK

AMQP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AMQP over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AMQP in the UK

AMQP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AMQP.

Hourly rate trend for AMQP in the UK

AMQP
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +132 16 £500 -20.00% 2
UK excluding London +70 13 £500 -23.08% 2
South West - 7 £550 - 1
North East - 6 £415 -
North of England - 6 £415 -
London +113 3 £513 -14.58%

AMQP
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 1 (6.25%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) OpenShift
3 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (37.50%) Serverless
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
5 4 (25.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) npm
6 1 (6.25%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) MQTT
2 5 (31.25%) Network Security
3 4 (25.00%) Modbus
4 3 (18.75%) Firewall
5 2 (12.50%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) InfluxDB
2 6 (37.50%) Relational Database
3 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (25.00%) Tableau
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.25%) Mocha
General
1 6 (37.50%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Build Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Build Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Server Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Server Build Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Build Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) IoT Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (31.25%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (18.75%) JSON
3 3 (18.75%) Web Services
3 3 (18.75%) XML
3 3 (18.75%) XSLT
4 2 (12.50%) Middleware
5 1 (6.25%) .NET
5 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.25%) Express.js
5 1 (6.25%) JMS
5 1 (6.25%) JWT
5 1 (6.25%) MEAN Stack
5 1 (6.25%) MERN Stack
5 1 (6.25%) Mongoose
5 1 (6.25%) NestJS
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth
5 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
5 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) IoT
2 5 (31.25%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (25.00%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
1 7 (43.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Event-Driven
2 6 (37.50%) Observability
3 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
3 5 (31.25%) Service Management
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (18.75%) CRUD
5 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
6 2 (12.50%) Security Management
6 2 (12.50%) Server Building
6 2 (12.50%) Use Case
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 9 (56.25%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) Java
4 5 (31.25%) Go
4 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
5 4 (25.00%) C
5 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Grafana
2 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 7 (43.75%) Ansible
3 7 (43.75%) Docker Swarm
3 7 (43.75%) Progress Chef
4 5 (31.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) IBM