RabbitMQ Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pivotal Software RabbitMQ
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring RabbitMQ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 488 445
Rank change year-on-year -78 -43 -29
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 88 65 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.19% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 1.32% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 66 51 146
10th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,625 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

RabbitMQ falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,257 4,931 10,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.01% 14.21% 18.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,697 3,048 7,097
10th Percentile £38,772 £33,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £76,075 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%

RabbitMQ
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

RabbitMQ job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RabbitMQ
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

RabbitMQ
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing RabbitMQ in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Salary histogram for RabbitMQ in the UK excluding London

RabbitMQ
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 RabbitMQ within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
South East -31 25 £65,000 -7.14% 29
North of England -46 20 £63,750 -8.93% 24
East of England -26 15 £72,500 +45.00% 5
Wales - 14 £70,000 - 4
North West -18 13 £62,500 -10.71% 13
Midlands -36 10 £65,000 -7.14% 14
East Midlands - 9 £65,000 - 8
South West -73 8 - - 8
Yorkshire -51 7 £80,500 -5.29% 8
Scotland +10 1 - - 7
West Midlands -33 1 £55,000 -21.43% 5
RabbitMQ
UK

RabbitMQ
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 7 (7.95%) Apache
2 5 (5.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.27%) JBoss
4 1 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.14%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.14%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (1.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 62 (70.45%) Azure
2 53 (60.23%) AWS
3 27 (30.68%) GCP
4 17 (19.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (18.18%) Serverless
6 14 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (14.77%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (14.77%) OpenShift
8 12 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (13.64%) GitHub
9 9 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (4.55%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (3.41%) ChatGPT
14 3 (3.41%) Datadog
14 3 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.91%) MQTT
2 5 (5.68%) AMQP
3 2 (2.27%) Firewall
3 2 (2.27%) HTTP
3 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.27%) VLAN
3 2 (2.27%) VPN
4 1 (1.14%) 4G
4 1 (1.14%) 5G
4 1 (1.14%) DNS
4 1 (1.14%) LAN
4 1 (1.14%) SSH
4 1 (1.14%) WAN
4 1 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.41%) MySQL
2 24 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (21.59%) NoSQL
4 18 (20.45%) MongoDB
5 12 (13.64%) Redis
6 11 (12.50%) Relational Database
7 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
8 5 (5.68%) Big Data
8 5 (5.68%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (5.68%) Hadoop
9 3 (3.41%) MariaDB
10 2 (2.27%) Pinecone
11 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (42.05%) Git
2 16 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 12 (13.64%) GitLab
4 5 (5.68%) JIRA
5 4 (4.55%) Artifactory
5 4 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.55%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.27%) Maven
6 2 (2.27%) minitest
6 2 (2.27%) RSpec
6 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.14%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.14%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (1.14%) JUnit
7 1 (1.14%) Mockito
7 1 (1.14%) Selenium
7 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (20.45%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.23%) Banking
4 8 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.95%) Aerospace
6 6 (6.82%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.68%) Finance
8 1 (1.14%) Advertising
8 1 (1.14%) Automotive
8 1 (1.14%) Aviation
8 1 (1.14%) iGaming
8 1 (1.14%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.14%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.14%) Legal
8 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (53.41%) Developer
2 24 (27.27%) Senior
3 18 (20.45%) Java Developer
4 15 (17.05%) Senior Developer
5 14 (15.91%) Python Developer
6 10 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (11.36%) Senior Python Developer
6 10 (11.36%) Software Engineer
7 9 (10.23%) Architect
8 8 (9.09%) Backend Developer
8 8 (9.09%) Lead
8 8 (9.09%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.82%) Integration Architect
10 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.41%) PHP Developer
12 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 3 (3.41%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (56.82%) Kafka
2 44 (50.00%) RESTful
3 37 (42.05%) Terraform
4 35 (39.77%) REST
5 32 (36.36%) Spring
6 29 (32.95%) Spring Boot
7 20 (22.73%) JPA
8 19 (21.59%) OpenAPI
8 19 (21.59%) Swagger
9 18 (20.45%) Hibernate
10 16 (18.18%) AngularJS
10 16 (18.18%) FastAPI
11 15 (17.05%) React
12 12 (13.64%) JSON
12 12 (13.64%) Node.js
13 10 (11.36%) OAuth
14 9 (10.23%) .NET
14 9 (10.23%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (10.23%) Middleware
15 7 (7.95%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 40 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 36 (40.91%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (19.32%) Product Ownership
4 10 (11.36%) Virtual Team
5 9 (10.23%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (10.23%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (7.95%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.55%) Robotics
8 3 (3.41%) AI Agents
8 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (3.41%) PKI
9 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
9 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.27%) SCADA
10 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.86%) Linux
2 6 (6.82%) CentOS
2 6 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.68%) Debian
3 5 (5.68%) Ubuntu
3 5 (5.68%) Windows
4 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 51 (57.95%) Containerisation
3 50 (56.82%) DevOps
4 49 (55.68%) Microservices
5 47 (53.41%) Agile
6 37 (42.05%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (42.05%) Software Engineering
7 35 (39.77%) Event-Driven
8 32 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (34.09%) API Design
10 29 (32.95%) Mentoring
11 26 (29.55%) Scrum
12 25 (28.41%) Roadmaps
13 21 (23.86%) Observability
14 19 (21.59%) Secure Coding
14 19 (21.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 18 (20.45%) AI
15 18 (20.45%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (19.32%) Clean Code
17 16 (18.18%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 46 (52.27%) Java
2 35 (39.77%) Python
3 25 (28.41%) SQL
4 11 (12.50%) C#
4 11 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.09%) C++
6 7 (7.95%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.82%) Bash
7 6 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.68%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.55%) Groovy
10 3 (3.41%) PHP
11 2 (2.27%) Perl
11 2 (2.27%) Ruby
11 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.14%) C
12 1 (1.14%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.14%) Embedded C++
12 1 (1.14%) Rust
12 1 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) Degree
4 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.27%) CISSP
6 2 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.14%) HND
7 1 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 63 (71.59%) Docker
2 3 (3.41%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (77.27%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.45%) Ansible
3 16 (18.18%) Grafana
4 15 (17.05%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.68%) Puppet
6 4 (4.55%) Istio
6 4 (4.55%) Kibana
6 4 (4.55%) linkerd
6 4 (4.55%) Packer
7 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (17.05%) Google
2 10 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.23%) Splunk
4 8 (9.09%) AppDynamics
4 8 (9.09%) IBM
4 8 (9.09%) OpenAI
4 8 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.82%) Oracle
6 5 (5.68%) SaltStack
7 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.41%) VMware
8 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.27%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.14%) Dell
9 1 (1.14%) DevExpress
9 1 (1.14%) Infor
9 1 (1.14%) Sage
9 1 (1.14%) Sparx
9 1 (1.14%) Veracode
9 1 (1.14%) YouTube