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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 824 943 1038
Rank change year-on-year +119 +95 -199
Permanent jobs citing MQTT 74 37 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.037% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.55% 0.24% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 43 21 99
10th Percentile £30,500 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -22.22% +22.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £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 13,516 15,741 20,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 15.58% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,426 8,007 11,698
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -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 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -3.23% +3.33%

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 10 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 10 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 +32 72 £57,500 +9.52% 17
England +121 58 £57,500 +9.52% 15
North of England +74 32 £57,500 +9.52% 3
Work from Home +69 23 £58,500 +11.43% 3
North West - 17 £57,500 - 1
Yorkshire +94 12 - - 2
Midlands -5 11 £58,500 +17.00% 6
West Midlands +7 8 £58,500 +17.00% 1
South East +15 7 £80,000 +56.10% 4
East of England +7 7 £47,500 -11.63% 1
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 2
Scotland - 7 £50,000 -
North East - 3 £35,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £42,500 - 5
London +110 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 (6.76%) nginx
2 1 (1.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 31 (41.89%) AWS
2 18 (24.32%) Azure
3 17 (22.97%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (10.81%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (8.11%) GCP
5 6 (8.11%) GitHub
5 6 (8.11%) Serverless
6 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.76%) AWS IoT
6 5 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.70%) Datadog
10 1 (1.35%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.35%) Firebase
10 1 (1.35%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.78%) HTTP
2 18 (24.32%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (20.27%) RS-485
3 15 (20.27%) Wireless
4 13 (17.57%) 4G
5 12 (16.22%) 3G
6 10 (13.51%) TCP/IP
7 7 (9.46%) LoRaWAN
8 6 (8.11%) Bluetooth
8 6 (8.11%) Modbus
8 6 (8.11%) VPN
9 5 (6.76%) LTE
9 5 (6.76%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (5.41%) Ethernet
11 3 (4.05%) HTTPS
12 2 (2.70%) RS-232
12 2 (2.70%) ZigBee
13 1 (1.35%) 5G
13 1 (1.35%) RS-422
13 1 (1.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.92%) NoSQL
2 9 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (10.81%) MySQL
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.05%) Big Data
5 3 (4.05%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.70%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (29.73%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) Bitbucket
2 4 (5.41%) Subversion
3 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.70%) GitLab
4 2 (2.70%) JIRA
5 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.97%) Electronics
3 16 (21.62%) Manufacturing
4 15 (20.27%) Finance
4 15 (20.27%) Marketing
4 15 (20.27%) Public Sector
4 15 (20.27%) Telecoms
5 12 (16.22%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.35%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Automotive
6 1 (1.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.35%) Legal
6 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (37.84%) Software Engineer
2 24 (32.43%) Embedded Engineer
3 21 (28.38%) Developer
4 18 (24.32%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 16 (21.62%) Senior
6 12 (16.22%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Architect
7 7 (9.46%) Software Architect
8 6 (8.11%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Firmware Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Full Stack Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.76%) Senior Full Stack Developer
10 4 (5.41%) CloudOps Manager
10 4 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (5.41%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Operations Manager
10 4 (5.41%) React Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.43%) Node.js
2 23 (31.08%) CSS
2 23 (31.08%) HTML
3 17 (22.97%) REST
4 16 (21.62%) React
5 15 (20.27%) AngularJS
6 12 (16.22%) Flask
6 12 (16.22%) RESTful
7 9 (12.16%) Kafka
7 9 (12.16%) Web Services
8 7 (9.46%) Django
8 7 (9.46%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (8.11%) GraphQL
10 5 (6.76%) Apache Thrift
10 5 (6.76%) gRPC
10 5 (6.76%) JSON
10 5 (6.76%) Knex.js
10 5 (6.76%) LEMP Stack
10 5 (6.76%) React Native
10 5 (6.76%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 44 (59.46%) IoT
2 13 (17.57%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (13.51%) Arduino
4 7 (9.46%) Raspberry Pi
5 6 (8.11%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (6.76%) Mobile App
7 4 (5.41%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (5.41%) Robotics
8 3 (4.05%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (4.05%) Driving Licence
9 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.35%) CAN bus
10 1 (1.35%) Device Driver
10 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.35%) FPGA
10 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.35%) NB-IoT
10 1 (1.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 41 (55.41%) Linux
2 16 (21.62%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (63.51%) Software Engineering
2 22 (29.73%) Full Stack Development
3 21 (28.38%) Agile
3 21 (28.38%) Computer Science
3 21 (28.38%) User Experience
4 19 (25.68%) Microservices
4 19 (25.68%) Test Automation
5 18 (24.32%) Analytics
5 18 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (22.97%) OO
7 16 (21.62%) CI/CD
7 16 (21.62%) DevOps
8 15 (20.27%) Digital Marketing
8 15 (20.27%) Programme Management
9 14 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
9 14 (18.92%) Computer Vision
9 14 (18.92%) Data Analytics
9 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (18.92%) Software Testing
9 14 (18.92%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (54.05%) Python
2 36 (48.65%) JavaScript
3 30 (40.54%) SQL
4 27 (36.49%) C++
5 22 (29.73%) C
6 17 (22.97%) TypeScript
7 12 (16.22%) Java
8 7 (9.46%) C#
9 5 (6.76%) Embedded C
9 5 (6.76%) JSX
9 5 (6.76%) R
10 4 (5.41%) Embedded C++
11 3 (4.05%) Ruby
12 2 (2.70%) Bash
13 1 (1.35%) Assembly Language
13 1 (1.35%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (1.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 28 (37.84%) Degree
2 12 (16.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.46%) Master's Degree
3 7 (9.46%) PhD
4 6 (8.11%) HND
5 1 (1.35%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.35%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.22%) GDPR
2 11 (14.86%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.35%) JTAG
3 1 (1.35%) MISRA
3 1 (1.35%) MISRA C
System Software
1 25 (33.78%) Firmware
2 12 (16.22%) Docker
3 7 (9.46%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.70%) Functional Safety
2 2 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) SAP
2 8 (10.81%) Google
3 7 (9.46%) NVIDIA
4 3 (4.05%) Siemens
4 3 (4.05%) Telerik
5 1 (1.35%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (1.35%) Atmel
5 1 (1.35%) AVEVA
5 1 (1.35%) Freescale
5 1 (1.35%) QNX
5 1 (1.35%) Renesas
5 1 (1.35%) Rockwell