AMQP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AMQP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 579 549
Rank change year-on-year +57 -30 +240
Permanent jobs citing AMQP 9 9 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.019% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.16% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 12
10th Percentile £51,775 £50,250 -
25th Percentile £54,250 £58,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £66,250 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.53% +4.33% -18.06%
75th Percentile £102,500 £73,438 £71,250
90th Percentile £107,375 £77,375 -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £66,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +35.85% -11.67% -3.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,881 5,523 5,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.90% 11.52% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,091 2,713 4,343
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £37,750 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.10% +5.00% -4.76%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AMQP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AMQP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AMQP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AMQP

AMQP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AMQP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AMQP in the UK excluding London

AMQP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +33 5 £90,000 +35.85% 2
North of England - 3 £63,750 -
Yorkshire - 2 £63,750 -
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 £112,500 - 5
AMQP
UK

AMQP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (44.44%) OpenShift
3 4 (44.44%) Serverless
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (22.22%) Azure
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
6 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (33.33%) InfluxDB
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Snyk
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Law
1 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
2 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (33.33%) React
3 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (22.22%) J2EE
4 2 (22.22%) Kafka
4 2 (22.22%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 1 (11.11%) gRPC
5 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
5 1 (11.11%) Node.js
5 1 (11.11%) OAuth
5 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
5 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
5 1 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 3 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Debian
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
4 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
6 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
6 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 2 (22.22%) Technology Transformation
6 2 (22.22%) User Experience
7 1 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) Go
4 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (66.67%) Terraform
3 4 (44.44%) Ansible
4 3 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (33.33%) Grafana
4 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
4 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Checkmarx
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Qualys
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) SaltStack