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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 419 376
Rank change year-on-year -55 -43 +208
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 47 146 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.38% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% 1.98% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 33 93 139
10th Percentile £52,750 £51,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -10.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.79% -3.33% +7.14%

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 3,846 7,369 6,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.15% 19.41% 24.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,949 4,187 5,380
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -1.42%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 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
North of England +17 19 £72,500 -3.33% 35
North West +34 15 £72,500 -3.33% 27
South East -17 12 £57,500 -14.81% 40
South West -16 8 £90,000 +18.03% 16
Midlands +22 5 £65,000 +8.33% 19
East Midlands -7 5 £65,000 +8.33% 9
Yorkshire -10 4 - - 7
East of England +19 3 £100,000 +100.00% 22
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 9 (19.15%) nginx
2 4 (8.51%) Apache
3 3 (6.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.26%) IIS
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 34 (72.34%) AWS
2 25 (53.19%) Azure
3 18 (38.30%) GCP
4 15 (31.91%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (31.91%) Serverless
5 12 (25.53%) Amazon S3
6 11 (23.40%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (14.89%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (14.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (14.89%) OpenShift
9 6 (12.77%) Azure AKS
10 5 (10.64%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (10.64%) GitHub
10 5 (10.64%) SaaS
11 3 (6.38%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (4.26%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) AMQP
2 3 (6.38%) VPN
3 1 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.91%) NoSQL
2 14 (29.79%) MySQL
3 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
4 10 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (17.02%) DynamoDB
5 8 (17.02%) MongoDB
5 8 (17.02%) Redis
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (10.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (8.51%) InfluxDB
8 3 (6.38%) Big Data
8 3 (6.38%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (6.38%) Hadoop
8 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (4.26%) PostHog
10 1 (2.13%) ClickHouse
10 1 (2.13%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Git
2 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.64%) git-flow
4 2 (4.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.26%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.13%) ESLint
5 1 (2.13%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) JUnit
5 1 (2.13%) mountebank
5 1 (2.13%) Postman
5 1 (2.13%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.13%) Storybook
5 1 (2.13%) Subversion
5 1 (2.13%) TestNG
5 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.26%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.13%) Advertising
5 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Senior
2 13 (27.66%) Developer
3 11 (23.40%) Senior Developer
4 10 (21.28%) Lead
4 10 (21.28%) Software Engineer
5 8 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) PHP Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Architect
7 4 (8.51%) Backend Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Backend Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior PHP Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Technical Architect
8 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Site Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (42.55%) .NET
2 15 (31.91%) Kafka
3 13 (27.66%) React
4 9 (19.15%) Material-UI
5 8 (17.02%) RESTful
6 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
6 7 (14.89%) CSS
6 7 (14.89%) gRPC
7 6 (12.77%) HTML
8 5 (10.64%) AWS CDK
8 5 (10.64%) Loki
8 5 (10.64%) Node.js
8 5 (10.64%) REST
9 4 (8.51%) .NET Core
9 4 (8.51%) Celery
9 4 (8.51%) FastAPI
9 4 (8.51%) Flask
9 4 (8.51%) GraphQL
9 4 (8.51%) MassTransit
9 4 (8.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Cloud Native
2 11 (23.40%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.13%) IoT
5 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Windows
3 3 (6.38%) CentOS
3 3 (6.38%) Debian
3 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.38%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (72.34%) CI/CD
2 27 (57.45%) DevOps
2 27 (57.45%) Microservices
3 24 (51.06%) Agile
4 19 (40.43%) Mentoring
5 16 (34.04%) Software Engineering
6 14 (29.79%) Containerisation
6 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (27.66%) Event-Driven
8 9 (19.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (19.15%) Observability
9 7 (14.89%) Configuration Management
9 7 (14.89%) Software Delivery
10 6 (12.77%) AI
10 6 (12.77%) Data Modelling
10 6 (12.77%) E-Commerce
10 6 (12.77%) Machine Learning
10 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) C#
2 15 (31.91%) Python
3 13 (27.66%) SQL
4 10 (21.28%) Java
5 9 (19.15%) JavaScript
5 9 (19.15%) TypeScript
6 6 (12.77%) PHP
7 4 (8.51%) Go
8 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.26%) Bicep
9 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) DV Cleared
1 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (53.19%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (63.83%) Kubernetes
2 13 (27.66%) Grafana
2 13 (27.66%) Terraform
3 10 (21.28%) Prometheus
4 9 (19.15%) Ansible
5 4 (8.51%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.38%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (6.38%) Puppet
7 1 (2.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Google
2 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.38%) SaltStack
3 2 (4.26%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe
4 1 (2.13%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) Splunk