AMQP Job Trends in the South West

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring AMQP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 182 215
Rank change year-on-year +10 +33 +63
Permanent jobs citing AMQP 5 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.098% 0.17% 0.063%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.84% 1.46% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £53,200 £50,250 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £66,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% +32.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £73,438 £55,000
90th Percentile - £77,375 -
England median annual salary £76,250 £66,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.09% -11.67% -6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 596 478 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.73% 11.53% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 345 275 611
10th Percentile £25,202 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £51,058 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.39% +4.20% +3.16%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,250 £84,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

AMQP job vacancy trend in the South West

AMQP
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AMQP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AMQP

AMQP
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AMQP in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AMQP in the South West

AMQP
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol +12 3 £95,000 +28.81%
Dorset - 2 £57,000 -
AMQP
England

AMQP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) InfluxDB
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Go
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus