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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 314 327
Rank change year-on-year -68 +13 +20
Contract jobs citing RabbitMQ 64 58 68
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.43% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.45% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 40 59
10th Percentile £406 £468 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £608 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -6.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £728 £700 £725
90th Percentile £855 - £825
England median daily rate £488 £555 £600
% change year-on-year -12.16% -7.50% -

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 5,357 4,006 4,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.32% 29.70% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,614 2,732 3,352
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £701
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 22
10th Percentile £26.55 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -21 10 £725 +6.54% 6
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 (4.69%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (3.13%) Camunda
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Mingle
Cloud Services
1 38 (59.38%) AWS
2 31 (48.44%) Azure
3 21 (32.81%) GCP
3 21 (32.81%) GitHub
4 18 (28.13%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (15.63%) Amazon S3
5 10 (15.63%) Serverless
6 9 (14.06%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (9.38%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (9.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (7.81%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (6.25%) Kong
11 2 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) 4G
1 2 (3.13%) 5G
1 2 (3.13%) DNS
1 2 (3.13%) HTTP
1 2 (3.13%) SSH
1 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.06%) NoSQL
2 23 (35.94%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (28.13%) MongoDB
4 9 (14.06%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (14.06%) MySQL
4 9 (14.06%) Redis
5 7 (10.94%) BigQuery
6 6 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
8 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (4.69%) Pinecone
9 3 (4.69%) Weaviate
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.56%) Couchbase
10 1 (1.56%) Hazelcast
10 1 (1.56%) Power BI
10 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (37.50%) GitLab
2 21 (32.81%) Git
3 17 (26.56%) Jenkins
4 13 (20.31%) JUnit
5 8 (12.50%) Maven
5 8 (12.50%) Mockito
6 6 (9.38%) Bitbucket
6 6 (9.38%) Cucumber
7 5 (7.81%) JIRA
8 4 (6.25%) Gradle
8 4 (6.25%) SonarQube
9 3 (4.69%) SpecFlow
10 2 (3.13%) Selenium
11 1 (1.56%) Claude Code
11 1 (1.56%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (32.81%) Finance
2 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.50%) Banking
4 7 (10.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.38%) Back Office
6 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.25%) Front Office
7 4 (6.25%) Law
8 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.13%) Police
8 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.56%) Games
9 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (54.69%) Developer
2 19 (29.69%) Senior
3 18 (28.13%) Java Developer
4 11 (17.19%) Senior Developer
5 10 (15.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (10.94%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Lead
8 4 (6.25%) Lead Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Python Developer
8 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Messaging Developer
9 3 (4.69%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Backend Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (82.81%) Kafka
2 27 (42.19%) Spring
3 25 (39.06%) Spring Boot
4 24 (37.50%) RESTful
5 21 (32.81%) REST
6 16 (25.00%) Terraform
7 12 (18.75%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (18.75%) React
8 11 (17.19%) CSS
9 10 (15.63%) HTML
10 8 (12.50%) CSS3
10 8 (12.50%) HTML5
11 6 (9.38%) FastAPI
11 6 (9.38%) LangChain
12 5 (7.81%) .NET
12 5 (7.81%) Flask
12 5 (7.81%) Node.js
12 5 (7.81%) Nunjucks
12 5 (7.81%) pytest
12 5 (7.81%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (43.75%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (26.56%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.81%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.69%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.13%) CMDB
6 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.13%) Derivative
6 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.13%) PropTech
6 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.56%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.56%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Unix
3 1 (1.56%) Windows
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 43 (67.19%) CI/CD
2 43 (67.19%) Microservices
3 38 (59.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 35 (54.69%) DevOps
5 29 (45.31%) Agile
6 22 (34.38%) Containerisation
7 19 (29.69%) Data Modelling
8 18 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (26.56%) Test Automation
10 15 (23.44%) Scrum
11 14 (21.88%) Code Quality
12 13 (20.31%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (17.19%) AI
14 10 (15.63%) Clean Code
14 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
14 10 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (15.63%) Software Engineering
15 9 (14.06%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) Java
2 30 (46.88%) SQL
3 22 (34.38%) Python
4 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.06%) C#
6 8 (12.50%) Go
6 8 (12.50%) PHP
7 7 (10.94%) Shell Script
7 7 (10.94%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.25%) Kotlin
9 3 (4.69%) Scala
10 2 (3.13%) Bash
10 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.56%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.56%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.56%) Bicep
11 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 11 (17.19%) Degree
4 10 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.56%) PhD
7 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (26.56%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 33 (51.56%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 32 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Grafana
2 8 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 5 (7.81%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Oracle
2 7 (10.94%) OpenAI
3 4 (6.25%) Google
4 3 (4.69%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (4.69%) IBM
4 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.69%) Sybase
5 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.13%) Solace
6 1 (1.56%) Splunk
6 1 (1.56%) TIBCO