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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 315 305
Rank change year-on-year -71 -10 +96
Contract jobs citing RabbitMQ 57 57 85
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.42% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 1.61% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 70
10th Percentile £335 £468 £425
25th Percentile £456 £496 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £608 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -13.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £734
90th Percentile £780 £704 £754
England median daily rate £500 £550 £601
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.45% +4.48%

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 4,607 3,535 4,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.72% 26.04% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,467 3,179
10th Percentile £390 £368 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 24
10th Percentile £26.48 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.41 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +31.25% -40.30%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.13 £53.42
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -7.29%

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 8 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 8 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 -14 13 £700 +2.87% 2
South London - 1 £775 -
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 (5.26%) Apache Pulsar
1 3 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.51%) Camunda
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.75%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 34 (59.65%) AWS
2 29 (50.88%) Azure
3 22 (38.60%) GCP
4 15 (26.32%) GitHub
5 14 (24.56%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (7.02%) Kong
7 4 (7.02%) Serverless
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) NaaS
1 2 (3.51%) WAN
2 1 (1.75%) DNS
2 1 (1.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 17 (29.82%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (26.32%) MongoDB
4 6 (10.53%) BigQuery
4 6 (10.53%) MySQL
4 6 (10.53%) Redis
5 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.51%) Flink
7 2 (3.51%) InfluxDB
7 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.51%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (1.75%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.75%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.75%) Power BI
8 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (26.32%) GitLab
2 13 (22.81%) Jenkins
3 10 (17.54%) Git
4 8 (14.04%) JUnit
5 6 (10.53%) Mockito
6 4 (7.02%) Maven
7 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
7 3 (5.26%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.51%) JIRA
8 2 (3.51%) Robot Framework
8 2 (3.51%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.75%) Gradle
9 1 (1.75%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.75%) Postman
9 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (26.32%) Finance
2 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Law
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Banking
5 4 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.26%) Back Office
6 3 (5.26%) Front Office
6 3 (5.26%) Police
6 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.51%) Billing
8 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.75%) Games
8 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (49.12%) Developer
2 16 (28.07%) Senior
3 13 (22.81%) Java Developer
4 8 (14.04%) Senior Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Architect
6 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Backend Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Integration Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Lead
9 3 (5.26%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Messaging Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) .NET Developer
10 2 (3.51%) C# Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Java Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (85.96%) Kafka
2 21 (36.84%) RESTful
2 21 (36.84%) Spring
3 19 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 18 (31.58%) REST
5 9 (15.79%) .NET
6 8 (14.04%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (14.04%) React
7 7 (12.28%) AngularJS
7 7 (12.28%) OAuth
7 7 (12.28%) OAuth2
8 6 (10.53%) CSS
9 5 (8.77%) CSS3
9 5 (8.77%) HTML
9 5 (8.77%) HTML5
9 5 (8.77%) JSON
9 5 (8.77%) Node.js
10 4 (7.02%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (7.02%) Django
10 4 (7.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (57.89%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (22.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.77%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.02%) CMDB
5 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.51%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.51%) Derivative
6 2 (3.51%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.75%) PKI
7 1 (1.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (75.44%) Microservices
2 40 (70.18%) Event-Driven
3 36 (63.16%) CI/CD
4 30 (52.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 26 (45.61%) DevOps
6 24 (42.11%) Containerisation
7 22 (38.60%) Agile
8 14 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (22.81%) Data Modelling
10 12 (21.05%) Code Quality
10 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (21.05%) Test Automation
11 11 (19.30%) API Design
12 10 (17.54%) Clean Code
12 10 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (17.54%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (15.79%) Scrum
14 8 (14.04%) AI
14 8 (14.04%) Observability
14 8 (14.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (47.37%) Java
2 21 (36.84%) Python
2 21 (36.84%) SQL
3 9 (15.79%) C#
4 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.28%) Go
5 7 (12.28%) PHP
5 7 (12.28%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.51%) C++
7 2 (3.51%) Ruby
8 1 (1.75%) Elixir
8 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.51%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) NIST
2 1 (1.75%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (50.88%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 30 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 14 (24.56%) Terraform
3 7 (12.28%) Ansible
4 4 (7.02%) Grafana
4 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.51%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (1.75%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (7.02%) Dynatrace
1 4 (7.02%) Google
1 4 (7.02%) IBM
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) OpenAI
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle
2 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
2 3 (5.26%) Sybase
3 2 (3.51%) Amdocs
3 2 (3.51%) Ciena
3 2 (3.51%) MuleSoft
3 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.75%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.75%) BT
4 1 (1.75%) Pega
4 1 (1.75%) Planview
4 1 (1.75%) Solace
4 1 (1.75%) TIBCO