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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 682 823
Rank change year-on-year +125 +141 -113
Contract jobs citing AMQP 14 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.009% 0.024%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% 0.071% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 10
10th Percentile £425 £605 £450
25th Percentile £475 £613 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £663
90th Percentile £600 - £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +53.33%

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 5,394 7,081 9,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.67% 12.44% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,577 6,274
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 458 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.21 £50.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.65 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -7.37%

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 18 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 18 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 +118 14 £550 -15.38% 3
UK excluding London +68 11 £525 -19.23% 3
South West - 7 £550 - 1
North of England - 4 £411 -
North East - 4 £411 -
London +99 3 £600 - 1

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 2 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 7 (50.00%) Serverless
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) npm
4 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 2 (14.29%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Network Security
2 4 (28.57%) MQTT
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) Modbus
4 1 (7.14%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) InfluxDB
1 7 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (14.29%) Tableau
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 2 (14.29%) Mocha
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (7.14%) Build Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) IBM Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) IoT Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Build Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Server Build Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Build Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (21.43%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) Express.js
3 2 (14.29%) JSON
3 2 (14.29%) JWT
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) MEAN Stack
3 2 (14.29%) MERN Stack
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware
3 2 (14.29%) NestJS
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) OAuth
3 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 2 (14.29%) React
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 2 (14.29%) XML
3 2 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (21.43%) IoT
2 3 (21.43%) PKI
3 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 7 (50.00%) Observability
1 7 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
2 5 (35.71%) Service Management
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) CRUD
4 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) SDLC
4 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (35.71%) Go
3 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
4 4 (28.57%) C
5 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
6 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
6 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Grafana
2 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (64.29%) Prometheus
3 7 (50.00%) Ansible
3 7 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
3 7 (50.00%) Progress Chef
4 5 (35.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) IBM
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft