RabbitMQ Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Pivotal Software RabbitMQ
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring RabbitMQ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - 132
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing RabbitMQ 3 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.11% - 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% - 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £352 - £425
25th Percentile £358 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £388 - £519
90th Percentile £392 - £613
South East median daily rate £462 £443 £475
% change year-on-year +4.12% -6.68% -12.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 459 280 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.89% 18.36% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 199 231
10th Percentile £375 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £599 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £664 £668
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile £56.01 £23.35 £56.50
25th Percentile £73.25 £27.11 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £31.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +157.14% -48.86% -21.53%
75th Percentile - £77.19 £62.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £86.38 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% -5.23%

RabbitMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

RabbitMQ job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

RabbitMQ
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RabbitMQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RabbitMQ within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Berkshire - 3 £374 - 5
RabbitMQ
South East

RabbitMQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Introscope
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Django
2 2 (66.67%) FastAPI
2 2 (66.67%) Flask
2 2 (66.67%) NumPy
2 2 (66.67%) OpenAPI
2 2 (66.67%) Pandas
2 2 (66.67%) pytest
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Swagger
3 1 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (33.33%) Jinja
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Linear Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Jython
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) CA Wily
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat