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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 384 521
Rank change year-on-year -126 +137 -244
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 55 108 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 2.35% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 39 81 172
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -10.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £71,563
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% +8.33% -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 4,908 4,605 13,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.60% 17.15% 20.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,793 3,577 10,275
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £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 £85,000 £87,500 £80,950
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -61 25 £57,500 -8.00% 5
North of England -61 15 £77,500 +6.90% 4
North West -28 8 £75,000 +3.45% 4
South West -44 7 £87,500 +16.67% 1
Yorkshire -54 7 £82,500 +17.86%
East of England -37 6 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Midlands -54 6 £65,000 +8.33% 4
East Midlands -63 5 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Scotland -21 1 - -
West Midlands -36 1 £55,000 -8.33%
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 (12.73%) nginx
2 6 (10.91%) Apache
3 5 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Magento
1 1 (1.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (63.64%) Azure
2 29 (52.73%) AWS
3 16 (29.09%) Serverless
4 14 (25.45%) GCP
4 14 (25.45%) OpenShift
5 13 (23.64%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (23.64%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (18.18%) GitHub
7 9 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (14.55%) Datadog
9 6 (10.91%) Amazon S3
9 6 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
12 2 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (3.64%) Sentry
13 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) AMQP
2 3 (5.45%) VPN
3 1 (1.82%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) MySQL
1 9 (16.36%) NoSQL
1 9 (16.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.73%) Redis
3 5 (9.09%) Big Data
3 5 (9.09%) Cloudera CDH
3 5 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 4 (7.27%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.64%) PostHog
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.82%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.82%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (43.64%) Git
2 13 (23.64%) GitLab
3 11 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.91%) Cucumber
5 5 (9.09%) JIRA
6 4 (7.27%) SonarQube
7 3 (5.45%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.64%) JUnit
9 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.82%) git-flow
9 1 (1.82%) Mockito
9 1 (1.82%) Postman
9 1 (1.82%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.82%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.82%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.82%) TestNG
General
1 15 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.91%) Aerospace
3 6 (10.91%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Automotive
5 1 (1.82%) Games
5 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (40.00%) Developer
2 14 (25.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Senior
4 9 (16.36%) Software Engineer
5 8 (14.55%) Backend Developer
5 8 (14.55%) Software Developer
6 7 (12.73%) Java Developer
6 7 (12.73%) Lead
7 6 (10.91%) .NET Developer
7 6 (10.91%) .NET Software Developer
7 6 (10.91%) Senior Developer
8 5 (9.09%) Architect
8 5 (9.09%) PHP Developer
8 5 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (7.27%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Integration Architect
9 4 (7.27%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Senior PHP Developer
9 4 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (38.18%) REST
2 16 (29.09%) .NET
3 14 (25.45%) OAuth
3 14 (25.45%) React
4 12 (21.82%) Kafka
4 12 (21.82%) Spring
5 11 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 10 (18.18%) Spring Boot
7 9 (16.36%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (16.36%) JSON
7 9 (16.36%) RESTful
8 8 (14.55%) SAML
9 7 (12.73%) gRPC
10 6 (10.91%) JWT
10 6 (10.91%) Material-UI
10 6 (10.91%) Node.js
10 6 (10.91%) OpenAPI
10 6 (10.91%) Swagger
11 5 (9.09%) .NET Core
11 5 (9.09%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Cloud Native
1 13 (23.64%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (14.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (10.91%) Onboarding
4 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.82%) PKI
6 1 (1.82%) Robotics
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.82%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.82%) Linux
2 5 (9.09%) CentOS
2 5 (9.09%) Debian
2 5 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.82%) Android
3 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (70.91%) CI/CD
2 36 (65.45%) DevOps
3 33 (60.00%) Agile
4 27 (49.09%) Microservices
5 23 (41.82%) Containerisation
6 21 (38.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (27.27%) Software Engineering
9 14 (25.45%) Observability
10 13 (23.64%) Test Automation
11 11 (20.00%) Event-Driven
12 10 (18.18%) Scrum
13 9 (16.36%) Kanban
13 9 (16.36%) Mentoring
13 9 (16.36%) TDD
14 8 (14.55%) Batch Processing
15 7 (12.73%) Configuration Management
15 7 (12.73%) E-Commerce
15 7 (12.73%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.82%) Java
2 18 (32.73%) C#
3 17 (30.91%) Python
3 17 (30.91%) SQL
4 8 (14.55%) Bash
4 8 (14.55%) JavaScript
4 8 (14.55%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.91%) PHP
6 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.27%) Groovy
7 4 (7.27%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.64%) C++
8 2 (3.64%) Perl
9 1 (1.82%) C
9 1 (1.82%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.82%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.82%) Go
9 1 (1.82%) Rust
9 1 (1.82%) Scala
9 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.82%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (52.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (70.91%) Kubernetes
2 26 (47.27%) Terraform
3 15 (27.27%) Ansible
4 12 (21.82%) Grafana
5 10 (18.18%) Prometheus
6 5 (9.09%) Puppet
7 4 (7.27%) Kibana
7 4 (7.27%) Packer
8 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Red Hat
2 9 (16.36%) Google
3 8 (14.55%) AppDynamics
3 8 (14.55%) Dynatrace
3 8 (14.55%) IBM
4 5 (9.09%) Oracle
4 5 (9.09%) SaltStack
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.82%) Adobe
6 1 (1.82%) Splunk
6 1 (1.82%) WooCommerce