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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 474 483
Rank change year-on-year -87 +9 -168
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 84 74 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 1.54% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 65 56 154
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £54,808 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -10.78%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,350 £88,750 £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 6,520 4,803 10,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.45% 13.82% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,141 2,967 7,230
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,998 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £73,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -12 28 £60,000 -14.29% 23
North of England -51 19 £62,500 -10.71% 10
North West -7 12 £62,500 -10.71% 7
East of England -17 12 £72,500 +45.00% 4
Wales - 11 £70,000 - 1
Midlands -36 10 £65,000 +8.33% 10
East Midlands -21 9 £65,000 +8.33% 5
South West -56 8 - - 7
Yorkshire -24 7 £80,500 +15.00% 3
Scotland +13 1 - - 8
West Midlands -32 1 £55,000 -8.33% 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 (8.33%) Apache
2 5 (5.95%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) JBoss
4 1 (1.19%) Confluence
4 1 (1.19%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.19%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (1.19%) Magento
1 1 (1.19%) Sage 200
1 1 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (71.43%) Azure
2 48 (57.14%) AWS
3 23 (27.38%) GCP
4 17 (20.24%) OpenShift
5 16 (19.05%) GitHub
5 16 (19.05%) Serverless
6 14 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (15.48%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (15.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (13.10%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (8.33%) Datadog
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (3.57%) Stripe
14 2 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.10%) MQTT
2 5 (5.95%) AMQP
3 2 (2.38%) Firewall
3 2 (2.38%) VLAN
3 2 (2.38%) VPN
4 1 (1.19%) HTTP
4 1 (1.19%) LAN
4 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.19%) WAN
4 1 (1.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.62%) MySQL
1 19 (22.62%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.86%) NoSQL
3 13 (15.48%) MongoDB
4 10 (11.90%) Redis
4 10 (11.90%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.95%) Big Data
6 5 (5.95%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (5.95%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.57%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.38%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.19%) Power BI
9 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (42.86%) Git
2 14 (16.67%) GitLab
2 14 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.95%) JIRA
4 4 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 4 (4.76%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.38%) minitest
6 2 (2.38%) RSpec
6 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.19%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.19%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (1.19%) JUnit
7 1 (1.19%) Maven
7 1 (1.19%) Mockito
7 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (15.48%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 7 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.14%) Banking
6 5 (5.95%) Finance
7 1 (1.19%) Advertising
7 1 (1.19%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Aviation
7 1 (1.19%) iGaming
7 1 (1.19%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.19%) Japanese Language
7 1 (1.19%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (47.62%) Developer
2 18 (21.43%) Senior
3 14 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.90%) Python Developer
4 10 (11.90%) Senior Developer
4 10 (11.90%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Architect
5 9 (10.71%) Software Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Lead
7 7 (8.33%) Backend Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Integration Architect
9 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.57%) PHP Developer
11 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (47.62%) Kafka
2 36 (42.86%) RESTful
3 32 (38.10%) REST
4 26 (30.95%) Spring
5 24 (28.57%) Spring Boot
6 16 (19.05%) AngularJS
6 16 (19.05%) JPA
6 16 (19.05%) OpenAPI
6 16 (19.05%) Swagger
7 14 (16.67%) OAuth
7 14 (16.67%) React
8 13 (15.48%) Hibernate
9 12 (14.29%) FastAPI
9 12 (14.29%) JSON
9 12 (14.29%) Node.js
10 11 (13.10%) .NET
11 9 (10.71%) Middleware
12 8 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (9.52%) SAML
13 7 (8.33%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 33 (39.29%) Cloud Native
2 31 (36.90%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (15.48%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 7 (8.33%) Virtual Team
5 6 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.76%) Robotics
7 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.57%) PKI
8 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.38%) SCADA
9 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.62%) Linux
2 6 (7.14%) CentOS
2 6 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.95%) Debian
3 5 (5.95%) Ubuntu
3 5 (5.95%) Windows
4 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 50 (59.52%) DevOps
3 48 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 43 (51.19%) Microservices
5 42 (50.00%) Agile
6 36 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (35.71%) Software Engineering
8 28 (33.33%) Event-Driven
9 24 (28.57%) API Design
10 22 (26.19%) Mentoring
10 22 (26.19%) Observability
10 22 (26.19%) Scrum
11 19 (22.62%) Roadmaps
12 16 (19.05%) AI
13 15 (17.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 14 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (16.67%) Secure Coding
14 14 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (15.48%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.62%) Java
2 31 (36.90%) Python
3 24 (28.57%) SQL
4 13 (15.48%) C#
5 11 (13.10%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.71%) Bash
6 9 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.52%) C++
8 5 (5.95%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.76%) Groovy
9 4 (4.76%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.57%) PHP
11 2 (2.38%) Perl
11 2 (2.38%) Ruby
12 1 (1.19%) C
12 1 (1.19%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.19%) Embedded C++
12 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) Degree
4 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.38%) CISSP
6 2 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.19%) HND
7 1 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.43%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (69.05%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (76.19%) Kubernetes
2 37 (44.05%) Terraform
3 18 (21.43%) Ansible
4 16 (19.05%) Grafana
5 15 (17.86%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.95%) Puppet
7 4 (4.76%) Istio
7 4 (4.76%) Kibana
7 4 (4.76%) linkerd
7 4 (4.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (16.67%) Google
2 12 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 8 (9.52%) AppDynamics
4 8 (9.52%) IBM
5 7 (8.33%) Dynatrace
5 7 (8.33%) OpenAI
6 6 (7.14%) Splunk
7 5 (5.95%) Oracle
7 5 (5.95%) SaltStack
8 3 (3.57%) VMware
9 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.38%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.19%) Dell
10 1 (1.19%) DevExpress
10 1 (1.19%) Infor
10 1 (1.19%) Sage
10 1 (1.19%) Sparx
10 1 (1.19%) Veracode
10 1 (1.19%) WooCommerce