RabbitMQ Contracts

Pivotal Software RabbitMQ
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring RabbitMQ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RabbitMQ over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 457 508
Rank change year-on-year +3 +51 -27
Contract jobs citing RabbitMQ 66 125 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 1.40% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 90 170
10th Percentile £433 £413 £411
25th Percentile £461 £475 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £573 £571
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +0.35% +3.73%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £489 £513
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.59% +5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £79.20
25th Percentile - - £81.00
Median hourly rate - - £84.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £88.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +96.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

RabbitMQ
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RabbitMQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RabbitMQ in the UK

RabbitMQ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RabbitMQ.

Daily rate trend for RabbitMQ in the UK

RabbitMQ
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RabbitMQ over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RabbitMQ in the UK

RabbitMQ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RabbitMQ.

Hourly rate trend for RabbitMQ in the UK

RabbitMQ
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RabbitMQ within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
England -5 50 £513 -10.87% 120
London +5 29 £650 -7.14% 71
UK excluding London +31 24 £487 -0.36% 73
Work from Home +9 18 £525 -4.55% 69
South East +35 8 £443 -6.68% 37
North of England +20 8 £465 -4.91% 18
North West +14 4 £500 +2.25% 12
Scotland +7 4 £540 +5.37% 2
North East - 4 £465 - 1
Midlands +21 2 £513 +156.25% 6
West Midlands +14 2 £513 +156.25% 4
South West +33 1 £525 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 3

RabbitMQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (12.12%) Apache
2 6 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.06%) Tomcat
4 3 (4.55%) Confluence
5 1 (1.52%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (1.52%) IIS
5 1 (1.52%) Mule
5 1 (1.52%) nginx
5 1 (1.52%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.94%) AWS
2 15 (22.73%) Azure
3 13 (19.70%) Serverless
4 8 (12.12%) OpenShift
5 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
5 7 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (10.61%) GCP
5 7 (10.61%) Kong
6 6 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.09%) GitHub
7 5 (7.58%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (4.55%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 3 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Functions
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) DNS
3 2 (3.03%) HTTP
4 1 (1.52%) MQTT
4 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (34.85%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (28.79%) NoSQL
3 17 (25.76%) MongoDB
4 13 (19.70%) MySQL
5 12 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (15.15%) Relational Database
7 9 (13.64%) SQL Server
8 8 (12.12%) Redis
9 7 (10.61%) Big Data
10 6 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (7.58%) Hadoop
12 3 (4.55%) InfluxDB
13 2 (3.03%) Power BI
13 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
14 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (37.88%) Jenkins
2 21 (31.82%) Git
3 13 (19.70%) GitLab
4 12 (18.18%) Artifactory
5 11 (16.67%) SonarQube
6 10 (15.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (13.64%) Maven
8 7 (10.61%) gulp
8 7 (10.61%) JIRA
9 5 (7.58%) Bitbucket
10 3 (4.55%) Cucumber
10 3 (4.55%) git-flow
10 3 (4.55%) Gradle
10 3 (4.55%) Subversion
11 2 (3.03%) CircleCI
11 2 (3.03%) Postman
11 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (1.52%) Jaeger
12 1 (1.52%) Selenium
12 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (15.15%) Finance
1 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
2 6 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.06%) Banking
4 3 (4.55%) Law
4 3 (4.55%) Legal
5 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Back Office
5 2 (3.03%) Front Office
6 1 (1.52%) Aviation
6 1 (1.52%) Billing
6 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Games
6 1 (1.52%) German Language
6 1 (1.52%) Retail
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (57.58%) Developer
2 11 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (15.15%) .NET Developer
4 8 (12.12%) Senior
5 6 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Cloud Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.03%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Head of Architecture
8 2 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (3.03%) SQL Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (59.09%) Kafka
2 19 (28.79%) .NET
3 18 (27.27%) React
4 14 (21.21%) AngularJS
4 14 (21.21%) Spring Boot
5 13 (19.70%) Spring
6 11 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 11 (16.67%) RESTful
7 10 (15.15%) HTML
8 9 (13.64%) CSS
8 9 (13.64%) Entity Framework
8 9 (13.64%) Node.js
9 7 (10.61%) Apache CXF
9 7 (10.61%) Dropwizard
9 7 (10.61%) Express.js
9 7 (10.61%) Hibernate
9 7 (10.61%) JAX-RS
9 7 (10.61%) MEAN Stack
9 7 (10.61%) Mongoose
9 7 (10.61%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.06%) Private Cloud
2 4 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.03%) Social Media
5 1 (1.52%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.52%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.52%) MPEG
5 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.70%) Linux
2 8 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (9.09%) Windows
3 6 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.55%) CentOS
5 2 (3.03%) AIX
5 2 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 27 (40.91%) Microservices
3 24 (36.36%) Agile
4 23 (34.85%) DevOps
5 17 (25.76%) Containerisation
5 17 (25.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (24.24%) Event-Driven
7 14 (21.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 14 (21.21%) Scrum
8 13 (19.70%) API Development
9 12 (18.18%) Software Engineering
10 11 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 8 (12.12%) BDD
11 8 (12.12%) Open Source
11 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.61%) High Availability
12 7 (10.61%) Operational Stability
13 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (9.09%) OWASP
13 6 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) SQL
2 23 (34.85%) Java
2 23 (34.85%) JavaScript
3 17 (25.76%) Python
4 16 (24.24%) C#
5 7 (10.61%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.09%) Go
6 6 (9.09%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.06%) PHP
7 4 (6.06%) RPG
7 4 (6.06%) RPG IV
8 3 (4.55%) Bash
9 2 (3.03%) Bicep
9 2 (3.03%) Groovy
9 2 (3.03%) Scala
10 1 (1.52%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.52%) VB
10 1 (1.52%) VB6
Qualifications
1 17 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Degree
4 4 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 3 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) NCSC
3 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
System Software
1 29 (43.94%) Docker
2 5 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (4.55%) vCloud
3 3 (4.55%) VMware Workstation
3 3 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (21.21%) Terraform
3 7 (10.61%) Ansible
4 6 (9.09%) Grafana
4 6 (9.09%) Kibana
5 3 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.55%) SCCM
5 3 (4.55%) SCOM
5 3 (4.55%) SCSM
6 2 (3.03%) Rancher
7 1 (1.52%) Argo
7 1 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.52%) Istio
7 1 (1.52%) linkerd
7 1 (1.52%) MIIS
7 1 (1.52%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) VMware
3 5 (7.58%) Solace
3 5 (7.58%) TIBCO
4 4 (6.06%) Google
4 4 (6.06%) Oracle
4 4 (6.06%) Zend
5 3 (4.55%) Imperva
6 2 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (3.03%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.03%) Databricks
6 2 (3.03%) Foundry
6 2 (3.03%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.03%) Palantir
6 2 (3.03%) SAP
6 2 (3.03%) Splunk
7 1 (1.52%) Cisco
7 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.52%) Typelevel