RabbitMQ Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Pivotal Software RabbitMQ
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring RabbitMQ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - +60
Contract jobs citing RabbitMQ 9 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.40% - 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.99% - 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £513 - £230
25th Percentile £516 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.29%
75th Percentile £575 - £425
90th Percentile £600 - £470
England median daily rate £550 £598 £628
% change year-on-year -7.95% -4.78% +0.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 452 331 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.01% 19.68% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 194 174
10th Percentile £368 £380 £302
25th Percentile £447 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £456
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +20.55% -9.88%
75th Percentile £601 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £746 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.20
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £30.63
90th Percentile £77.25 - £38.50
England median hourly rate £58.00 £63.75 £51.89
% change year-on-year -9.02% +22.86% -20.17%

RabbitMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

RabbitMQ job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

RabbitMQ
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing RabbitMQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RabbitMQ within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Herefordshire - 4 £550 -
Birmingham - 3 £525 - 1
Shropshire - 2 - -
RabbitMQ
England

RabbitMQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (44.44%) OpenShift
3 4 (44.44%) Serverless
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (44.44%) InfluxDB
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) GitLab
1 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) JUnit
3 2 (22.22%) Selenium
4 1 (11.11%) Gatling
4 1 (11.11%) Maven
4 1 (11.11%) Mockito
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Site Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 2 (22.22%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 1 (11.11%) GraalVM
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) JDBC
3 1 (11.11%) JPA
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) OpenID
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Spring.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Containerisation
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Coaching
4 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
4 4 (44.44%) Observability
4 4 (44.44%) Service Management
4 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) SIEM
5 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (22.22%) ITIL
6 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Go
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
4 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
1 2 (22.22%) WCAG
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (88.89%) Grafana
3 7 (77.78%) Ansible
3 7 (77.78%) Terraform
4 4 (44.44%) Progress Chef
4 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
5 3 (33.33%) Argo
6 2 (22.22%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (22.22%) Puppet
7 1 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle