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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 491 454
Rank change year-on-year -84 -37 -29
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 91 57 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.16% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 1.21% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 66 46 141
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,438 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -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 7,339 4,725 10,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.87% 13.67% 19.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,735 2,867 6,556
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,075 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -18 23 £70,000 - 21
North of England -52 21 £63,750 -10.53% 13
East of England -16 17 £72,500 +45.00% 2
Wales - 16 £70,000 - 3
North West -12 14 £62,500 -12.28% 6
Midlands -39 10 £65,000 -7.14% 9
East Midlands - 9 £65,000 - 4
South West -78 8 - - 5
Yorkshire -44 7 £80,500 -5.29% 7
Scotland +5 1 - - 4
West Midlands -32 1 £55,000 -21.43% 4
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 8 (8.79%) Apache
2 6 (6.59%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.20%) JBoss
3 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.10%) Confluence
4 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (1.10%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 64 (70.33%) Azure
2 56 (61.54%) AWS
3 30 (32.97%) GCP
4 20 (21.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (18.68%) Serverless
6 15 (16.48%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (13.19%) OpenShift
10 10 (10.99%) GitHub
11 7 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon S3
13 5 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
15 3 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (3.30%) ChatGPT
15 3 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
15 3 (3.30%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.48%) MQTT
2 6 (6.59%) AMQP
3 3 (3.30%) HTTP
3 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.20%) 4G
4 2 (2.20%) 5G
4 2 (2.20%) DNS
4 2 (2.20%) Firewall
4 2 (2.20%) SSH
4 2 (2.20%) VLAN
4 2 (2.20%) VPN
5 1 (1.10%) LAN
5 1 (1.10%) WAN
5 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.77%) MySQL
2 27 (29.67%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (24.18%) NoSQL
4 21 (23.08%) MongoDB
5 13 (14.29%) Redis
6 11 (12.09%) Relational Database
7 6 (6.59%) Big Data
7 6 (6.59%) Cloudera CDH
7 6 (6.59%) Hadoop
7 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.30%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.20%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (41.76%) Git
2 17 (18.68%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.09%) GitLab
4 5 (5.49%) JIRA
5 4 (4.40%) Artifactory
5 4 (4.40%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.20%) Maven
6 2 (2.20%) minitest
6 2 (2.20%) RSpec
6 2 (2.20%) Selenium
6 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.10%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (1.10%) JUnit
7 1 (1.10%) Mockito
7 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (21.98%) Public Sector
2 19 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Aerospace
4 8 (8.79%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.59%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.49%) Finance
7 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
8 1 (1.10%) Automotive
8 1 (1.10%) Aviation
8 1 (1.10%) iGaming
8 1 (1.10%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.10%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (56.04%) Developer
2 27 (29.67%) Senior
3 20 (21.98%) Java Developer
4 18 (19.78%) Senior Developer
5 16 (17.58%) Python Developer
6 12 (13.19%) Senior Python Developer
7 11 (12.09%) Software Engineer
8 9 (9.89%) Architect
9 8 (8.79%) Backend Developer
9 8 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.79%) Lead
9 8 (8.79%) Software Developer
10 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 6 (6.59%) Integration Architect
11 5 (5.49%) Java Engineer
12 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (4.40%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 3 (3.30%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 3 (3.30%) Python Engineer
13 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (59.34%) Kafka
2 48 (52.75%) RESTful
3 38 (41.76%) Terraform
4 37 (40.66%) REST
5 35 (38.46%) Spring
6 32 (35.16%) Spring Boot
7 22 (24.18%) JPA
8 21 (23.08%) OpenAPI
8 21 (23.08%) Swagger
9 20 (21.98%) Hibernate
10 18 (19.78%) FastAPI
11 17 (18.68%) AngularJS
12 16 (17.58%) React
13 13 (14.29%) Node.js
14 12 (13.19%) JSON
15 10 (10.99%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (9.89%) .NET
16 9 (9.89%) Middleware
17 8 (8.79%) OAuth
18 7 (7.69%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 44 (48.35%) Cloud Native
2 38 (41.76%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (20.88%) Product Ownership
4 12 (13.19%) Virtual Team
5 11 (12.09%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (12.09%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (7.69%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.40%) Robotics
8 3 (3.30%) AI Agents
8 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (3.30%) PKI
9 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 2 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.20%) SCADA
10 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.27%) Linux
2 7 (7.69%) CentOS
2 7 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.59%) Debian
3 6 (6.59%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.49%) Windows
5 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (62.64%) CI/CD
2 53 (58.24%) Containerisation
3 52 (57.14%) Microservices
4 51 (56.04%) Agile
4 51 (56.04%) DevOps
5 41 (45.05%) Software Engineering
6 39 (42.86%) Event-Driven
7 37 (40.66%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (37.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (36.26%) API Design
10 32 (35.16%) Mentoring
11 30 (32.97%) Scrum
12 28 (30.77%) Roadmaps
13 21 (23.08%) Observability
13 21 (23.08%) Secure Coding
14 20 (21.98%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (21.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 18 (19.78%) Clean Code
15 18 (19.78%) Decision-Making
15 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (53.85%) Java
2 38 (41.76%) Python
3 26 (28.57%) SQL
4 13 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 11 (12.09%) C#
6 8 (8.79%) C++
7 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.49%) Bash
8 5 (5.49%) PL/SQL
8 5 (5.49%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.40%) Groovy
10 3 (3.30%) PHP
10 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.20%) Perl
11 2 (2.20%) Ruby
12 1 (1.10%) C
12 1 (1.10%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.10%) Embedded C++
12 1 (1.10%) Rust
12 1 (1.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.69%) Degree
4 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.20%) CISSP
6 2 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) HND
7 1 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (27.47%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 65 (71.43%) Docker
2 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 19 (20.88%) Ansible
3 17 (18.68%) Grafana
4 16 (17.58%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.59%) Puppet
6 4 (4.40%) Istio
6 4 (4.40%) Kibana
6 4 (4.40%) linkerd
6 4 (4.40%) Packer
7 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (17.58%) Google
2 11 (12.09%) Splunk
3 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.79%) AppDynamics
4 8 (8.79%) IBM
4 8 (8.79%) OpenAI
5 7 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 6 (6.59%) Oracle
6 6 (6.59%) SaltStack
7 3 (3.30%) VMware
8 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.20%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.10%) Dell
9 1 (1.10%) DevExpress
9 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.10%) Infor
9 1 (1.10%) Sage
9 1 (1.10%) Sparx
9 1 (1.10%) Veracode
9 1 (1.10%) YouTube