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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 401 522
Rank change year-on-year -93 +121 -222
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 44 132 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.43% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% 2.14% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 31 89 119
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,875 £78,750 £79,375
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £83,750 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +24.07% +3.85% -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 4,265 6,172 11,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.58% 20.03% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,260 3,710 8,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,225 £60,675
% change year-on-year -1.85% +9.15% -10.11%

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 February 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 February 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 -48 14 £55,000 -18.52% 10
North of England -21 12 £72,500 -3.33% 6
North West -2 11 £72,500 -3.33% 3
East of England +5 7 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Midlands -14 6 £65,000 +8.33% 3
South West -21 5 £87,500 +20.69% 3
East Midlands -31 5 £65,000 +8.33%
West Midlands +7 1 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Yorkshire -42 1 - - 3
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 (15.91%) nginx
2 6 (13.64%) Apache
3 5 (11.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) Azure
2 23 (52.27%) AWS
3 16 (36.36%) GCP
4 12 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (27.27%) Serverless
5 10 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (22.73%) OpenShift
6 9 (20.45%) GitHub
7 8 (18.18%) Amazon S3
7 8 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (11.36%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (11.36%) SaaS
10 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (9.09%) Datadog
10 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (6.82%) Azure AKS
12 2 (4.55%) Sentry
13 1 (2.27%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) AMQP
2 3 (6.82%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.82%) MySQL
2 12 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 8 (18.18%) Redis
4 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
5 6 (13.64%) DynamoDB
5 6 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (11.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (11.36%) Big Data
6 5 (11.36%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (11.36%) Hadoop
7 4 (9.09%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.55%) PostHog
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (2.27%) CockroachDB
9 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.27%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Git
2 5 (11.36%) git-flow
2 5 (11.36%) GitLab
3 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.55%) JIRA
5 2 (4.55%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.27%) JUnit
6 1 (2.27%) mountebank
6 1 (2.27%) Postman
6 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.27%) Subversion
6 1 (2.27%) TestNG
General
1 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Manufacturing
3 5 (11.36%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.27%) Advertising
4 1 (2.27%) Games
4 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Developer
1 17 (38.64%) Senior
2 11 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Senior Developer
4 9 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (18.18%) Lead
6 7 (15.91%) Software Developer
7 6 (13.64%) .NET Developer
7 6 (13.64%) .NET Software Developer
8 5 (11.36%) Backend Developer
8 5 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (11.36%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (11.36%) PHP Developer
8 5 (11.36%) Senior Backend Developer
8 5 (11.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (11.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) Senior PHP Developer
10 2 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
10 2 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (47.73%) .NET
2 14 (31.82%) React
3 10 (22.73%) Kafka
3 10 (22.73%) Material-UI
4 7 (15.91%) AngularJS
4 7 (15.91%) CSS
4 7 (15.91%) Node.js
4 7 (15.91%) REST
4 7 (15.91%) Spring
5 6 (13.64%) gRPC
5 6 (13.64%) HTML
6 5 (11.36%) AWS CDK
6 5 (11.36%) OpenAPI
6 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
6 5 (11.36%) Swagger
7 4 (9.09%) .NET Core
7 4 (9.09%) OAuth
7 4 (9.09%) SAML
8 3 (6.82%) MassTransit
9 2 (4.55%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.27%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Sports Betting
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.73%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) CentOS
2 5 (11.36%) Debian
2 5 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (11.36%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.55%) VMS
3 2 (4.55%) Windows
4 1 (2.27%) Android
4 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) CI/CD
2 25 (56.82%) Agile
3 24 (54.55%) DevOps
4 20 (45.45%) Microservices
5 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (34.09%) Containerisation
7 14 (31.82%) Software Engineering
8 11 (25.00%) Observability
9 10 (22.73%) Event-Driven
9 10 (22.73%) Mentoring
10 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (15.91%) Configuration Management
11 7 (15.91%) Software Delivery
12 6 (13.64%) Data Modelling
12 6 (13.64%) E-Commerce
12 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (13.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 6 (13.64%) Scrum
12 6 (13.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) C#
2 11 (25.00%) Java
2 11 (25.00%) Python
3 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 8 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 7 (15.91%) SQL
5 6 (13.64%) PHP
6 4 (9.09%) Bash
6 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.27%) C++
7 1 (2.27%) Go
7 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (38.64%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (56.82%) Kubernetes
2 16 (36.36%) Terraform
3 9 (20.45%) Ansible
3 9 (20.45%) Grafana
4 7 (15.91%) Prometheus
5 5 (11.36%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Google
1 9 (20.45%) Red Hat
2 5 (11.36%) SaltStack
3 4 (9.09%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.55%) VMware
5 1 (2.27%) Adobe
5 1 (2.27%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) Splunk