Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MQTT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MQTT over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 829 956 1074
Rank change year-on-year +127 +118 -251
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 75 37 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.036% 0.099%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.55% 0.23% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 45 22 92
10th Percentile £31,000 - £46,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -13.22% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,563 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +9.09%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,628 15,972 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.82% 15.39% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,500 8,150 11,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -

MQTT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MQTT in the UK

MQTT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MQTT.

Salary trend for MQTT in the UK

MQTT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MQTT over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MQTT in the UK

MQTT
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MQTT within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +58 73 £57,500 +9.52% 15
England +111 59 £57,500 +9.52% 15
North of England +77 33 £57,500 +9.52% 2
Work from Home +95 23 £58,500 +11.43% 3
North West - 17 £57,500 -
Yorkshire +85 13 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Midlands +24 11 £58,500 +17.00% 4
West Midlands +24 8 £58,500 +17.00% 1
Scotland - 8 £50,000 -
South East +15 7 £80,000 +56.10% 5
East of England +4 7 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 1
North East - 3 £35,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £42,500 - 3
London +117 1 £80,000 -
Wales +6 1 £27,500 -

MQTT
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 5 (6.67%) nginx
2 1 (1.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 30 (40.00%) AWS
2 17 (22.67%) Azure
2 17 (22.67%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (10.67%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (8.00%) GCP
4 6 (8.00%) GitHub
4 6 (8.00%) Serverless
5 5 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.67%) AWS IoT
5 5 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.67%) Datadog
9 1 (1.33%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.33%) Firebase
9 1 (1.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) HTTP
2 18 (24.00%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (20.00%) RS-485
3 15 (20.00%) Wireless
4 13 (17.33%) 4G
5 12 (16.00%) 3G
6 9 (12.00%) TCP/IP
7 7 (9.33%) LoRaWAN
8 6 (8.00%) Bluetooth
8 6 (8.00%) Modbus
8 6 (8.00%) VPN
9 5 (6.67%) LTE
9 5 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (5.33%) Ethernet
11 3 (4.00%) HTTPS
12 2 (2.67%) RS-232
12 2 (2.67%) ZigBee
13 1 (1.33%) 5G
13 1 (1.33%) Internet
13 1 (1.33%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) NoSQL
2 9 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.67%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (10.67%) MySQL
4 4 (5.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.00%) Big Data
5 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.67%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (30.67%) Git
2 5 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 4 (5.33%) Subversion
4 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.00%) JIRA
5 2 (2.67%) GitLab
6 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.00%) Electronics
3 17 (22.67%) Manufacturing
4 16 (21.33%) Finance
4 16 (21.33%) Marketing
4 16 (21.33%) Public Sector
4 16 (21.33%) Telecoms
5 12 (16.00%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.33%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Automotive
6 1 (1.33%) Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Legal
6 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (37.33%) Software Engineer
2 24 (32.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 23 (30.67%) Developer
4 18 (24.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 17 (22.67%) Senior
6 13 (17.33%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Architect
7 6 (8.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Firmware Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Full Stack Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Software Architect
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Full Stack Developer
9 4 (5.33%) CloudOps Manager
9 4 (5.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (5.33%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 4 (5.33%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.00%) CSS
1 24 (32.00%) HTML
2 23 (30.67%) Node.js
3 17 (22.67%) React
3 17 (22.67%) REST
4 14 (18.67%) AngularJS
5 13 (17.33%) Flask
6 11 (14.67%) RESTful
7 8 (10.67%) Django
7 8 (10.67%) Kafka
7 8 (10.67%) Web Services
8 6 (8.00%) GraphQL
8 6 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (6.67%) .NET
9 5 (6.67%) Apache Thrift
9 5 (6.67%) gRPC
9 5 (6.67%) JSON
9 5 (6.67%) LEMP Stack
9 5 (6.67%) React Native
9 5 (6.67%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 43 (57.33%) IoT
2 13 (17.33%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (14.67%) Arduino
4 8 (10.67%) Raspberry Pi
5 6 (8.00%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (6.67%) Mobile App
7 4 (5.33%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (5.33%) Robotics
8 3 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (4.00%) Driving Licence
9 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.33%) ARM Cortex
10 1 (1.33%) CAN bus
10 1 (1.33%) Device Driver
10 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.33%) NB-IoT
10 1 (1.33%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 41 (54.67%) Linux
2 16 (21.33%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (62.67%) Software Engineering
2 23 (30.67%) Full Stack Development
3 22 (29.33%) User Experience
4 21 (28.00%) Agile
4 21 (28.00%) Computer Science
5 19 (25.33%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (25.33%) Test Automation
6 18 (24.00%) Analytics
6 18 (24.00%) Microservices
7 17 (22.67%) CI/CD
7 17 (22.67%) OO
8 16 (21.33%) DevOps
8 16 (21.33%) Digital Marketing
8 16 (21.33%) Programme Management
9 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (20.00%) Web Development
10 14 (18.67%) Artificial Intelligence
10 14 (18.67%) Computer Vision
10 14 (18.67%) Data Analytics
10 14 (18.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (54.67%) Python
2 37 (49.33%) JavaScript
3 30 (40.00%) SQL
4 28 (37.33%) C++
5 22 (29.33%) C
6 17 (22.67%) TypeScript
7 12 (16.00%) Java
8 8 (10.67%) C#
9 5 (6.67%) Embedded C
9 5 (6.67%) JSX
9 5 (6.67%) R
10 4 (5.33%) Embedded C++
11 3 (4.00%) Ruby
12 2 (2.67%) Bash
12 2 (2.67%) Rust
13 1 (1.33%) Assembly Language
13 1 (1.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 28 (37.33%) Degree
2 13 (17.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.00%) HND
3 6 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 6 (8.00%) PhD
4 1 (1.33%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.33%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) GDPR
2 10 (13.33%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.33%) JTAG
3 1 (1.33%) MISRA
3 1 (1.33%) MISRA C
System Software
1 27 (36.00%) Firmware
2 12 (16.00%) Docker
3 8 (10.67%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.67%) Functional Safety
2 2 (2.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (25.33%) SAP
2 8 (10.67%) NVIDIA
3 7 (9.33%) Google
4 3 (4.00%) Siemens
4 3 (4.00%) Telerik
5 1 (1.33%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (1.33%) Atmel
5 1 (1.33%) AVEVA
5 1 (1.33%) Freescale
5 1 (1.33%) QNX
5 1 (1.33%) Renesas
5 1 (1.33%) Rockwell