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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 468 532
Rank change year-on-year -80 +64 -306
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 71 79 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 1.54% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 53 62 167
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,875
90th Percentile £81,750 £79,875 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -14.29%

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 6,070 5,138 13,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 15.42% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,879 3,256 10,082
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.09%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -39 27 £60,000 -14.29% 12
North of England -42 16 £63,750 -8.93% 3
North West -9 10 £62,500 -10.71% 3
East of England -14 10 £63,750 +27.50% 4
Midlands -31 9 £62,500 +4.17% 3
East Midlands -23 8 £65,000 +8.33% 2
South West -58 7 - - 4
Yorkshire -34 6 £82,500 +10.00%
Wales - 6 £70,000 - 4
Scotland +6 1 - - 1
West Midlands -30 1 £55,000 -8.33% 1
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 (9.86%) Apache
2 6 (8.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (1.41%) Magento
1 1 (1.41%) Sage 200
1 1 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (67.61%) Azure
2 36 (50.70%) AWS
3 18 (25.35%) GCP
3 18 (25.35%) OpenShift
4 16 (22.54%) Serverless
5 14 (19.72%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (19.72%) GitHub
6 13 (18.31%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (15.49%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (14.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (11.27%) Datadog
10 6 (8.45%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (7.04%) Amazon S3
12 4 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (1.41%) SaaS
14 1 (1.41%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) AMQP
1 6 (8.45%) MQTT
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) VLAN
2 2 (2.82%) VPN
3 1 (1.41%) HTTP
3 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) NoSQL
1 12 (16.90%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.68%) MongoDB
2 9 (12.68%) MySQL
3 7 (9.86%) Relational Database
3 7 (9.86%) SQL Server
4 6 (8.45%) Big Data
4 6 (8.45%) Cloudera CDH
4 6 (8.45%) Hadoop
5 5 (7.04%) Redis
6 2 (2.82%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.41%) Power BI
7 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (40.85%) Git
2 13 (18.31%) GitLab
3 11 (15.49%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.04%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.63%) JIRA
5 4 (5.63%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.23%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.41%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (1.41%) JUnit
8 1 (1.41%) Mockito
8 1 (1.41%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Manufacturing
2 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.27%) Aerospace
3 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Banking
4 3 (4.23%) Finance
5 1 (1.41%) Advertising
5 1 (1.41%) Automotive
5 1 (1.41%) Aviation
5 1 (1.41%) Italian Language
5 1 (1.41%) Japanese Language
5 1 (1.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (39.44%) Developer
2 16 (22.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (16.90%) Senior
4 10 (14.08%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.68%) Software Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Architect
6 8 (11.27%) Software Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Lead
8 6 (8.45%) .NET Developer
8 6 (8.45%) Backend Developer
8 6 (8.45%) Integration Architect
8 6 (8.45%) Python Developer
8 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
9 5 (7.04%) .NET Software Developer
9 5 (7.04%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Senior Python Developer
10 4 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 2 (2.82%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (42.25%) REST
2 27 (38.03%) Kafka
3 25 (35.21%) RESTful
4 22 (30.99%) Spring
5 21 (29.58%) Spring Boot
6 17 (23.94%) AngularJS
7 15 (21.13%) OAuth
8 14 (19.72%) .NET
8 14 (19.72%) Node.js
8 14 (19.72%) React
9 12 (16.90%) JPA
9 12 (16.90%) OpenAPI
9 12 (16.90%) Swagger
10 11 (15.49%) JSON
11 9 (12.68%) Hibernate
11 9 (12.68%) Middleware
11 9 (12.68%) SAML
12 8 (11.27%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (11.27%) gRPC
13 7 (9.86%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (36.62%) Cloud Native
2 24 (33.80%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
4 8 (11.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (9.86%) Onboarding
6 5 (7.04%) Virtual Team
7 4 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (4.23%) Algorithms
8 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
8 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (4.23%) Robotics
9 2 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.82%) PKI
9 2 (2.82%) SCADA
10 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
10 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) CentOS
2 6 (8.45%) Debian
2 6 (8.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.23%) Windows
4 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.41%) Android
5 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (69.01%) CI/CD
2 45 (63.38%) DevOps
3 40 (56.34%) Agile
3 40 (56.34%) Containerisation
4 35 (49.30%) Microservices
5 29 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (39.44%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (29.58%) Observability
8 20 (28.17%) Software Engineering
9 19 (26.76%) Scrum
10 18 (25.35%) Event-Driven
11 17 (23.94%) API Design
12 13 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (16.90%) Roadmaps
13 12 (16.90%) Test Automation
14 11 (15.49%) Mentoring
15 10 (14.08%) AI
15 10 (14.08%) Kanban
15 10 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
16 9 (12.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) Java
2 26 (36.62%) Python
3 22 (30.99%) SQL
4 14 (19.72%) C#
5 12 (16.90%) PowerShell
6 10 (14.08%) Bash
7 8 (11.27%) JavaScript
8 7 (9.86%) C++
9 4 (5.63%) Groovy
9 4 (5.63%) PL/SQL
9 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.82%) Perl
11 1 (1.41%) C
11 1 (1.41%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.41%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.41%) Rust
11 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) Degree
4 5 (7.04%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.82%) CISSP
6 2 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.72%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (63.38%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (80.28%) Kubernetes
2 36 (50.70%) Terraform
3 18 (25.35%) Ansible
4 15 (21.13%) Grafana
5 14 (19.72%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.45%) Puppet
7 4 (5.63%) Istio
7 4 (5.63%) Kibana
7 4 (5.63%) linkerd
7 4 (5.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Red Hat
2 9 (12.68%) Google
2 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.27%) AppDynamics
3 8 (11.27%) Dynatrace
3 8 (11.27%) IBM
4 6 (8.45%) SaltStack
5 4 (5.63%) Oracle
6 3 (4.23%) OpenAI
6 3 (4.23%) Splunk
7 2 (2.82%) VMware
8 1 (1.41%) Dell
8 1 (1.41%) DevExpress
8 1 (1.41%) Infor
8 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.41%) Sage
8 1 (1.41%) Veracode
8 1 (1.41%) WooCommerce