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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 307 319
Rank change year-on-year -81 +12 +14
Contract jobs citing RabbitMQ 66 62 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.46% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 1.56% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 44 59
10th Percentile £406 £470 £412
25th Percentile £458 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £608 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -6.46% -3.70%
75th Percentile £734 £700 £725
90th Percentile £850 - £825
England median daily rate £488 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -12.32% -7.33% -

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 5,350 3,973 4,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.44% 29.65% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,618 2,715 3,295
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £788 £850
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 32 24
10th Percentile £30.40 £31.77 £23.91
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £49.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.56 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £73.80
England median hourly rate £66.83 £54.35 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.96% -16.38% +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 10 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 10 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 -23 10 £725 +6.54% 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 (4.55%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (3.03%) Camunda
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Mingle
Cloud Services
1 40 (60.61%) AWS
2 31 (46.97%) Azure
3 22 (33.33%) GCP
3 22 (33.33%) GitHub
4 19 (28.79%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (15.15%) Amazon S3
5 10 (15.15%) Serverless
6 9 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (7.58%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (6.06%) Kong
10 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) 4G
1 2 (3.03%) 5G
1 2 (3.03%) DNS
1 2 (3.03%) HTTP
1 2 (3.03%) SSH
1 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (37.88%) NoSQL
2 24 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (27.27%) MongoDB
4 9 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (13.64%) MySQL
4 9 (13.64%) Redis
5 7 (10.61%) BigQuery
6 6 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (4.55%) Pinecone
8 3 (4.55%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.52%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.52%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.52%) Power BI
9 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (36.36%) GitLab
2 22 (33.33%) Git
3 18 (27.27%) Jenkins
4 14 (21.21%) JUnit
5 9 (13.64%) Maven
5 9 (13.64%) Mockito
6 7 (10.61%) Cucumber
7 6 (9.09%) Bitbucket
8 5 (7.58%) Gradle
8 5 (7.58%) JIRA
9 4 (6.06%) SonarQube
10 3 (4.55%) Selenium
10 3 (4.55%) SpecFlow
11 1 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.52%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.52%) Moq
11 1 (1.52%) NUnit
11 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (33.33%) Finance
2 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Banking
4 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (9.09%) Back Office
6 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.06%) Front Office
7 4 (6.06%) Law
8 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.03%) Police
8 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 36 (54.55%) Developer
2 20 (30.30%) Senior
3 19 (28.79%) Java Developer
4 12 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 10 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Data Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Lead
9 4 (6.06%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Python Developer
9 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Messaging Developer
10 3 (4.55%) QA Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Backend Developer
11 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (81.82%) Kafka
2 28 (42.42%) Spring
3 27 (40.91%) RESTful
4 26 (39.39%) Spring Boot
5 21 (31.82%) REST
6 16 (24.24%) Terraform
7 12 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (18.18%) CSS
7 12 (18.18%) React
8 11 (16.67%) HTML
9 9 (13.64%) CSS3
9 9 (13.64%) HTML5
10 6 (9.09%) FastAPI
10 6 (9.09%) LangChain
10 6 (9.09%) Spring MVC
11 5 (7.58%) .NET
11 5 (7.58%) Hibernate
11 5 (7.58%) JPA
11 5 (7.58%) Node.js
11 5 (7.58%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 28 (42.42%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (27.27%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.61%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.58%) AI Agents
5 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
6 3 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.03%) CMDB
7 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.03%) Fixed Income
7 2 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.03%) PropTech
7 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.52%) Derivative
8 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.52%) PKI
8 1 (1.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (1.52%) Windows
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (74.24%) Event-Driven
2 45 (68.18%) CI/CD
3 44 (66.67%) Microservices
4 39 (59.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 36 (54.55%) DevOps
6 30 (45.45%) Agile
7 24 (36.36%) Containerisation
8 19 (28.79%) Data Modelling
8 19 (28.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (28.79%) Test Automation
9 15 (22.73%) Code Quality
9 15 (22.73%) Scrum
10 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (19.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (18.18%) Software Engineering
13 11 (16.67%) AI
13 11 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (15.15%) Clean Code
15 9 (13.64%) Application Security
15 9 (13.64%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.00%) Java
2 30 (45.45%) SQL
3 22 (33.33%) Python
4 12 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.12%) C#
5 8 (12.12%) Go
5 8 (12.12%) PHP
6 7 (10.61%) Shell Script
6 7 (10.61%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.06%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.55%) Scala
9 2 (3.03%) Bash
9 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.52%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.52%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.52%) Bicep
10 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.15%) Degree
4 9 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.52%) PhD
7 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (28.79%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.52%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 34 (51.52%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 32 (48.48%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.12%) Grafana
2 8 (12.12%) Prometheus
3 5 (7.58%) Ansible
4 1 (1.52%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Oracle
2 7 (10.61%) OpenAI
3 4 (6.06%) Google
3 4 (6.06%) IBM
4 3 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.55%) Sybase
4 3 (4.55%) TIBCO
5 2 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.03%) Solace
6 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.52%) Splunk
6 1 (1.52%) Talend
6 1 (1.52%) webMethods
6 1 (1.52%) WSO2