MSMQ Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for MSMQ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MSMQ over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 439 609
Rank change year-on-year +100 +170 -121
Contract jobs citing MSMQ 2 16 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.065% 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.055% 0.26% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 9
10th Percentile - £427 -
25th Percentile - £525 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile - £731 £595
90th Percentile - - £775
UK median daily rate £550 £675 £500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +35.00% -6.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

MSMQ is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,632 6,254 13,181
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.67% 25.24% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,554 4,663 9,746
10th Percentile £343 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -1.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 122
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.10
25th Percentile - £41.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.60% +10.56%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.47
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.76
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

MSMQ
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MSMQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MSMQ trend for jobs with a WFH option

MSMQ
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MSMQ.

MSMQ daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MSMQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Angular Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) HTML CSS Developer
2 1 (50.00%) HTML Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) MiFID