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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 486 448
Rank change year-on-year -84 -38 -61
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 104 59 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.17% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 1.27% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 78 47 121
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £59,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 7,307 4,631 10,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.47% 13.42% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5,604 2,799 5,904
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -51 28 £75,000 +7.14% 32
North of England -71 22 £62,500 -13.79% 20
East of England -12 21 £72,500 +45.00% 6
Wales - 19 £66,000 - 3
North West -30 14 £62,500 -13.79% 15
South West -72 10 £65,600 -27.11% 9
Midlands -42 9 £65,000 -7.14% 17
East Midlands -27 8 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Yorkshire -31 8 £78,500 -21.50% 5
West Midlands -50 1 £55,000 -21.43% 12
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 10 (9.62%) Apache
2 7 (6.73%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.88%) JBoss
4 2 (1.92%) Confluence
4 2 (1.92%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.92%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.96%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.96%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 70 (67.31%) Azure
2 66 (63.46%) AWS
3 34 (32.69%) GCP
4 24 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (17.31%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (17.31%) Serverless
6 16 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (13.46%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (11.54%) OpenShift
9 10 (9.62%) GitHub
10 7 (6.73%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (5.77%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (2.88%) ChatGPT
14 3 (2.88%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.31%) MQTT
2 7 (6.73%) AMQP
3 4 (3.85%) Internet
3 4 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.88%) HTTP
5 2 (1.92%) 4G
5 2 (1.92%) 5G
5 2 (1.92%) DNS
5 2 (1.92%) Firewall
5 2 (1.92%) SSH
5 2 (1.92%) VLAN
5 2 (1.92%) VPN
5 2 (1.92%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.96%) LAN
6 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.81%) MySQL
2 29 (27.88%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (24.04%) NoSQL
4 24 (23.08%) MongoDB
5 13 (12.50%) Redis
6 10 (9.62%) Relational Database
7 7 (6.73%) Big Data
7 7 (6.73%) Cloudera CDH
7 7 (6.73%) Hadoop
8 5 (4.81%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.88%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.92%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.96%) Db2
11 1 (0.96%) GIS
11 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.96%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.96%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 41 (39.42%) Git
2 18 (17.31%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.62%) GitLab
4 6 (5.77%) JIRA
5 4 (3.85%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.88%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.92%) Maven
7 2 (1.92%) minitest
7 2 (1.92%) RSpec
7 2 (1.92%) Selenium
8 1 (0.96%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.96%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (22.12%) Public Sector
2 21 (20.19%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.46%) Banking
4 11 (10.58%) Social Skills
5 8 (7.69%) Aerospace
6 6 (5.77%) Finance
6 6 (5.77%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.92%) Aviation
7 2 (1.92%) Legal
7 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.96%) Advertising
8 1 (0.96%) iGaming
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.96%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Publishing
8 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (52.88%) Developer
2 36 (34.62%) Senior
3 22 (21.15%) Java Developer
4 20 (19.23%) Senior Developer
5 16 (15.38%) Python Developer
5 16 (15.38%) Software Engineer
6 13 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Lead
8 9 (8.65%) Architect
8 9 (8.65%) Software Developer
9 8 (7.69%) Backend Developer
9 8 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 6 (5.77%) Integration Architect
11 6 (5.77%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Java Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Python Software Engineer
13 4 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (60.58%) Kafka
2 54 (51.92%) RESTful
3 44 (42.31%) REST
4 42 (40.38%) Terraform
5 39 (37.50%) Spring
6 36 (34.62%) Spring Boot
7 25 (24.04%) OpenAPI
7 25 (24.04%) Swagger
8 24 (23.08%) JPA
9 22 (21.15%) FastAPI
9 22 (21.15%) Hibernate
10 19 (18.27%) AngularJS
10 19 (18.27%) Node.js
11 18 (17.31%) React
12 12 (11.54%) JSON
13 11 (10.58%) .NET
14 10 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (9.62%) Middleware
15 7 (6.73%) ActiveMQ
15 7 (6.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (49.04%) Cloud Native
2 40 (38.46%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (22.12%) Product Ownership
4 15 (14.42%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (14.42%) Virtual Team
5 14 (13.46%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (6.73%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.85%) IoT
7 4 (3.85%) PKI
7 4 (3.85%) Robotics
8 3 (2.88%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.88%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.92%) SCADA
10 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.96%) Linux
2 8 (7.69%) CentOS
2 8 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.73%) Debian
3 7 (6.73%) Ubuntu
3 7 (6.73%) Windows
4 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (57.69%) Containerisation
2 58 (55.77%) CI/CD
3 56 (53.85%) Agile
4 55 (52.88%) Microservices
5 54 (51.92%) DevOps
6 51 (49.04%) Software Engineering
7 46 (44.23%) Event-Driven
8 39 (37.50%) API Design
8 39 (37.50%) Mentoring
8 39 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (35.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (32.69%) Roadmaps
10 34 (32.69%) Scrum
11 25 (24.04%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (23.08%) Secure Coding
13 23 (22.12%) AI
13 23 (22.12%) Observability
14 22 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (21.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 21 (20.19%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 54 (51.92%) Java
2 45 (43.27%) Python
3 28 (26.92%) SQL
4 16 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.54%) C#
6 11 (10.58%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.65%) C++
8 7 (6.73%) PHP
9 5 (4.81%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.85%) Bash
10 4 (3.85%) Groovy
10 4 (3.85%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.92%) Perl
12 2 (1.92%) Ruby
13 1 (0.96%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.69%) Degree
4 7 (6.73%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.92%) CISSP
6 2 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.96%) HND
7 1 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (26.92%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 72 (69.23%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (73.08%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.19%) Ansible
3 19 (18.27%) Grafana
4 18 (17.31%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.73%) Puppet
6 4 (3.85%) Istio
6 4 (3.85%) Kibana
6 4 (3.85%) linkerd
6 4 (3.85%) Packer
7 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (16.35%) Google
2 14 (13.46%) Splunk
3 10 (9.62%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.69%) AppDynamics
4 8 (7.69%) IBM
4 8 (7.69%) OpenAI
5 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
5 7 (6.73%) SaltStack
6 6 (5.77%) Oracle
7 4 (3.85%) VMware
8 3 (2.88%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.96%) Dell
10 1 (0.96%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.96%) Infor
10 1 (0.96%) Sage
10 1 (0.96%) Sparx
10 1 (0.96%) Veracode
10 1 (0.96%) YouTube