AMQP Job Trends in England

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring AMQP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 669 641
Rank change year-on-year +86 -28 +322
Permanent jobs citing AMQP 17 7 25
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.033% 0.014% 0.055%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.19% 0.11% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 14 4 15
10th Percentile £52,900 £50,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £58,125 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £66,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.09% -11.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £102,500 £73,438 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,125 £77,375 -
UK median annual salary £76,250 £66,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.09% -11.67% -3.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

AMQP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,895 6,646 6,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.10% 13.40% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 3,518 5,355
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £28,697 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AMQP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

AMQP job vacancy trend in England

AMQP
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AMQP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AMQP

AMQP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AMQP in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AMQP in England

AMQP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the England region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 6 £76,250 - 2
South West +6 5 £90,000 +35.85% 2
North of England - 5 £63,750 -
North West - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £63,750 -
South East - 1 £112,500 -
AMQP
UK

AMQP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (17.65%) Apache
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (58.82%) Serverless
3 7 (41.18%) Amazon S3
4 6 (35.29%) Azure
4 6 (35.29%) OpenShift
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (29.41%) GCP
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (17.65%) Azure API Management
6 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (11.76%) npm
7 2 (11.76%) SaaS
7 2 (11.76%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) HTTP
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (17.65%) Big Data
2 3 (17.65%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
2 3 (17.65%) InfluxDB
2 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) Snyk
3 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.76%) Mocha
3 2 (11.76%) webpack
General
1 3 (17.65%) Aerospace
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (52.94%) React
2 9 (52.94%) Spring
3 7 (41.18%) Node.js
3 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
4 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
4 5 (29.41%) gRPC
4 5 (29.41%) OAuth
4 5 (29.41%) OAuth2
4 5 (29.41%) OpenAPI
4 5 (29.41%) REST
5 4 (23.53%) J2EE
5 4 (23.53%) Kafka
6 3 (17.65%) Material-UI
6 3 (17.65%) Swagger
7 2 (11.76%) Jest
7 2 (11.76%) MERN Stack
7 2 (11.76%) Mongoose
7 2 (11.76%) NestJS
7 2 (11.76%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (17.65%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) CentOS
2 3 (17.65%) Debian
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Containerisation
3 9 (52.94%) Microservices
3 9 (52.94%) Software Engineering
4 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
5 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (29.41%) Scrum
7 3 (17.65%) B2B
7 3 (17.65%) B2C
7 3 (17.65%) High Availability
7 3 (17.65%) Information Security
7 3 (17.65%) Kanban
7 3 (17.65%) Network Design
7 3 (17.65%) Open Source
7 3 (17.65%) OWASP
7 3 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Java
2 9 (52.94%) SQL
3 8 (47.06%) Python
4 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) Go
5 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
6 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 6 (35.29%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (17.65%) Grafana
4 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
4 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
4 3 (17.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Checkmarx
1 3 (17.65%) Google
1 3 (17.65%) Qualys
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
1 3 (17.65%) SaltStack