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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 476 474
Rank change year-on-year -86 -2 -58
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 87 68 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.19% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.36% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 66 51 152
10th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £96,250 £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 7,298 5,002 11,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.13% 14.34% 18.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,751 3,103 7,501
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,056
% change year-on-year - +7.05% -6.58%

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 27 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 27 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 -26 26 £62,500 -10.71% 28
North of England -50 19 £62,500 -10.71% 22
East of England -21 14 £72,500 +45.00% 5
Wales - 14 £70,000 - 2
North West -18 12 £62,500 -10.71% 13
Midlands -23 10 £65,000 -7.14% 16
East Midlands - 9 £65,000 - 8
South West -71 8 - - 13
Yorkshire -35 7 £80,500 -5.29% 7
Scotland +6 1 - - 6
West Midlands -36 1 £55,000 -21.43% 7
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 (8.05%) Apache
2 5 (5.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.30%) JBoss
4 1 (1.15%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.15%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
1 1 (1.15%) Sage 200
1 1 (1.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (72.41%) Azure
2 52 (59.77%) AWS
3 27 (31.03%) GCP
4 17 (19.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (18.39%) Serverless
6 14 (16.09%) GitHub
6 14 (16.09%) OpenShift
7 13 (14.94%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (14.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.60%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (4.60%) Datadog
13 3 (3.45%) ChatGPT
13 3 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (3.45%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.94%) MQTT
2 5 (5.75%) AMQP
3 2 (2.30%) Firewall
3 2 (2.30%) HTTP
3 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.30%) VLAN
3 2 (2.30%) VPN
4 1 (1.15%) 4G
4 1 (1.15%) 5G
4 1 (1.15%) DNS
4 1 (1.15%) LAN
4 1 (1.15%) SSH
4 1 (1.15%) WAN
4 1 (1.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.59%) MySQL
1 24 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (21.84%) NoSQL
3 18 (20.69%) MongoDB
4 11 (12.64%) Redis
4 11 (12.64%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.75%) Big Data
6 5 (5.75%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (5.75%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.45%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.30%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.15%) Power BI
9 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (43.68%) Git
2 15 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 12 (13.79%) GitLab
4 5 (5.75%) JIRA
5 4 (4.60%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.60%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.45%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.30%) minitest
7 2 (2.30%) RSpec
7 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.15%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.15%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (1.15%) JUnit
8 1 (1.15%) Maven
8 1 (1.15%) Mockito
8 1 (1.15%) Selenium
8 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (21.84%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.34%) Banking
4 8 (9.20%) Social Skills
5 7 (8.05%) Aerospace
6 6 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.75%) Finance
8 1 (1.15%) Advertising
8 1 (1.15%) Automotive
8 1 (1.15%) Aviation
8 1 (1.15%) iGaming
8 1 (1.15%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.15%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (52.87%) Developer
2 21 (24.14%) Senior
3 17 (19.54%) Java Developer
4 13 (14.94%) Python Developer
4 13 (14.94%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Software Engineer
7 9 (10.34%) Architect
7 9 (10.34%) Senior Python Developer
8 8 (9.20%) Backend Developer
8 8 (9.20%) Lead
8 8 (9.20%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.90%) Integration Architect
10 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.45%) PHP Developer
12 3 (3.45%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (54.02%) Kafka
2 43 (49.43%) RESTful
3 38 (43.68%) Terraform
4 34 (39.08%) REST
5 30 (34.48%) Spring
6 28 (32.18%) Spring Boot
7 20 (22.99%) JPA
8 18 (20.69%) OpenAPI
8 18 (20.69%) Swagger
9 17 (19.54%) Hibernate
10 16 (18.39%) AngularJS
11 15 (17.24%) FastAPI
12 14 (16.09%) React
13 12 (13.79%) JSON
13 12 (13.79%) Node.js
14 11 (12.64%) OAuth
15 10 (11.49%) .NET
16 9 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (10.34%) Middleware
17 7 (8.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (43.68%) Cloud Native
2 35 (40.23%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (18.39%) Product Ownership
4 10 (11.49%) Virtual Team
5 9 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (8.05%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (4.60%) Robotics
8 3 (3.45%) AI Agents
8 3 (3.45%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.45%) PKI
9 2 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.30%) SCADA
10 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.99%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) CentOS
2 6 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.75%) Debian
3 5 (5.75%) Ubuntu
3 5 (5.75%) Windows
4 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (64.37%) CI/CD
2 52 (59.77%) DevOps
3 50 (57.47%) Containerisation
4 47 (54.02%) Microservices
5 46 (52.87%) Agile
6 37 (42.53%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (40.23%) Software Engineering
8 34 (39.08%) Event-Driven
9 32 (36.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (33.33%) API Design
11 27 (31.03%) Mentoring
12 26 (29.89%) Scrum
13 24 (27.59%) Roadmaps
14 22 (25.29%) Observability
15 18 (20.69%) Secure Coding
15 18 (20.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 17 (19.54%) AI
16 17 (19.54%) Technical Leadership
17 16 (18.39%) Decision-Making
17 16 (18.39%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.57%) Java
2 34 (39.08%) Python
3 25 (28.74%) SQL
4 12 (13.79%) C#
5 10 (11.49%) JavaScript
6 8 (9.20%) C++
6 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
7 7 (8.05%) Bash
8 5 (5.75%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.60%) Groovy
9 4 (4.60%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.45%) PHP
11 2 (2.30%) Perl
11 2 (2.30%) Ruby
11 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.15%) C
12 1 (1.15%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.15%) Embedded C++
12 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) Degree
4 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.30%) CISSP
6 2 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.15%) HND
7 1 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (25.29%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (71.26%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (77.01%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.69%) Ansible
3 17 (19.54%) Grafana
4 16 (18.39%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.75%) Puppet
6 4 (4.60%) Istio
6 4 (4.60%) Kibana
6 4 (4.60%) linkerd
6 4 (4.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (17.24%) Google
2 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.34%) Red Hat
3 9 (10.34%) Splunk
4 8 (9.20%) AppDynamics
4 8 (9.20%) IBM
4 8 (9.20%) OpenAI
5 5 (5.75%) Oracle
5 5 (5.75%) SaltStack
6 4 (4.60%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.45%) VMware
8 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.30%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.15%) Dell
9 1 (1.15%) DevExpress
9 1 (1.15%) Infor
9 1 (1.15%) Sage
9 1 (1.15%) Sparx
9 1 (1.15%) Veracode
9 1 (1.15%) WooCommerce