RabbitMQ Contract Job Trends in London

Pivotal Software RabbitMQ
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring RabbitMQ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 314 315
Rank change year-on-year -76 +1 +69
Contract jobs citing RabbitMQ 59 59 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 1.50% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 41 67
10th Percentile £346 £468 £425
25th Percentile £457 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £608 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -13.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £731
90th Percentile £863 - £750
England median daily rate £500 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -10.07% -7.33% +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

RabbitMQ falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,310 3,934 4,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 29.22% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,550 2,736 3,480
10th Percentile £400 £369 £385
25th Percentile £455 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 19
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £30.82
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +22.28% -35.61%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £57.59
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £67.03
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%

RabbitMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RabbitMQ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

RabbitMQ job vacancy trend in London

RabbitMQ
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RabbitMQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RabbitMQ in London over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RabbitMQ in London

RabbitMQ
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RabbitMQ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RabbitMQ within the London region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. 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
Central London -13 11 £700 +2.87% 4
RabbitMQ
England

RabbitMQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.08%) Apache Pulsar
1 3 (5.08%) Camunda
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (59.32%) AWS
2 29 (49.15%) Azure
3 20 (33.90%) GCP
4 15 (25.42%) GitHub
5 14 (23.73%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.47%) Kong
7 5 (8.47%) Serverless
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.08%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) 4G
1 1 (1.69%) 5G
1 1 (1.69%) DNS
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
1 1 (1.69%) NaaS
1 1 (1.69%) SSH
1 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.59%) NoSQL
2 18 (30.51%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (23.73%) MongoDB
4 7 (11.86%) Redis
5 6 (10.17%) BigQuery
6 5 (8.47%) MySQL
7 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.69%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.69%) Flink
9 1 (1.69%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.69%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.69%) Power BI
9 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.69%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (28.81%) GitLab
2 15 (25.42%) Jenkins
3 14 (23.73%) Git
4 12 (20.34%) JUnit
5 7 (11.86%) Mockito
6 5 (8.47%) Maven
7 4 (6.78%) SonarQube
8 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.39%) JIRA
10 1 (1.69%) Gradle
10 1 (1.69%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.69%) Postman
10 1 (1.69%) Robot Framework
10 1 (1.69%) Selenium
10 1 (1.69%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Finance
3 8 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.47%) Law
5 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Back Office
6 3 (5.08%) Police
6 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.39%) Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Front Office
8 1 (1.69%) Billing
8 1 (1.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (55.93%) Developer
2 18 (30.51%) Senior
3 17 (28.81%) Java Developer
4 10 (16.95%) Senior Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) Lead Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Messaging Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Backend Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Backend Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (84.75%) Kafka
2 27 (45.76%) Spring
3 25 (42.37%) Spring Boot
4 23 (38.98%) RESTful
5 21 (35.59%) REST
6 13 (22.03%) Terraform
7 9 (15.25%) ActiveMQ
7 9 (15.25%) React
8 8 (13.56%) .NET
8 8 (13.56%) CSS
9 7 (11.86%) HTML
10 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
10 6 (10.17%) CSS3
10 6 (10.17%) HTML5
10 6 (10.17%) Node.js
10 6 (10.17%) OAuth
11 5 (8.47%) Django
11 5 (8.47%) JSON
11 5 (8.47%) Nunjucks
11 5 (8.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (55.93%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (22.03%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.08%) CMDB
5 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.39%) Derivative
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.69%) PKI
6 1 (1.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Unix
3 1 (1.69%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (76.27%) Microservices
2 41 (69.49%) Event-Driven
3 40 (67.80%) CI/CD
4 31 (52.54%) DevOps
4 31 (52.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 24 (40.68%) Containerisation
6 23 (38.98%) Agile
7 15 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (25.42%) Test Automation
8 14 (23.73%) Data Modelling
9 13 (22.03%) Code Quality
9 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (18.64%) API Design
10 11 (18.64%) Clean Code
10 11 (18.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (15.25%) Application Security
11 9 (15.25%) Scrum
11 9 (15.25%) Software Engineering
12 8 (13.56%) AI
12 8 (13.56%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.93%) Java
2 23 (38.98%) SQL
3 21 (35.59%) Python
4 8 (13.56%) C#
4 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.86%) Go
5 7 (11.86%) PHP
5 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.17%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.69%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.69%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) Bicep
8 1 (1.69%) C++
8 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) Degree
4 4 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.69%) PhD
6 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) NIST
2 1 (1.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (52.54%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 30 (50.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.17%) Ansible
3 4 (6.78%) Grafana
3 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.69%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (1.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Oracle
2 4 (6.78%) IBM
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.08%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.08%) Google
3 3 (5.08%) Sybase
4 1 (1.69%) Amdocs
4 1 (1.69%) Ciena
4 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.69%) Pega
4 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) Solace
4 1 (1.69%) TIBCO