Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MQTT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MQTT over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 654 787
Rank change year-on-year +95 +133 -125
Contract jobs citing MQTT 17 30 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.053% 0.071%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.42% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 50
10th Percentile £306 £500 £397
25th Percentile £325 £569 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £735 £725
Median % change year-on-year -46.94% +1.38% +52.63%
75th Percentile £428 £743 £743
90th Percentile £575 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -22.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £76.25
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -29.03% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

MQTT 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 5,388 7,085 9,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.66% 12.44% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,213 4,577 6,232
10th Percentile £205 £235 £234
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £611
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 417 464 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +7.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.89
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £17.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year +158.48% -17.44% -8.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MQTT in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MQTT in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MQTT over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MQTT in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MQTT in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MQTT within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +103 17 £390 -46.94% 15
UK excluding London +59 11 £390 -22.00% 17
North of England +34 9 £390 - 4
Work from Home +119 7 £370 -28.85% 4
London +88 6 £370 -49.66%
North West - 5 £313 - 1
North East - 4 £411 -
East of England +10 1 - - 1
South West - 1 - -

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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 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Amazon Alexa
1 4 (23.53%) Firebase
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) AMQP
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) Modbus
3 1 (5.88%) DMZ
3 1 (5.88%) Internet
3 1 (5.88%) RS-232
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Tableau
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Build Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Server Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (17.65%) CSS
1 3 (17.65%) Laravel
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 2 (11.76%) XML
2 2 (11.76%) XSLT
3 1 (5.88%) gRPC
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) MFC
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) Swagger
3 1 (5.88%) WinForms
3 1 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) IoT
2 4 (23.53%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (23.53%) PKI
3 2 (11.76%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
3 2 (11.76%) Robotics
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.88%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Conversational UI
2 3 (17.65%) Edge Computing
3 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) CRUD
3 2 (11.76%) QMS
3 2 (11.76%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
4 1 (5.88%) Architectural Design
4 1 (5.88%) Business Case
4 1 (5.88%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Network Architecture
4 1 (5.88%) Open Source
4 1 (5.88%) Performance Management
4 1 (5.88%) Security Management
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.88%) Test Management
4 1 (5.88%) UML
4 1 (5.88%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) PHP
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
1 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) C++/CLI
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) iptables
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Apple
1 4 (23.53%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) SAP