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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 407 511
Rank change year-on-year -84 +104 -215
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 46 130 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.42% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 2.09% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 33 88 118
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £79,688
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,875 £83,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.64% +5.77% -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 4,257 6,207 11,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.61% 20.13% 22.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,249 3,701 8,859
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 £66,206 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%

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 24 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 24 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 -52 14 £55,000 -18.52% 10
North of England -23 13 £72,500 -6.45% 10
North West +6 12 £72,500 -3.33% 7
East of England +7 8 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Midlands -15 6 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East Midlands -28 5 £65,000 +8.33%
South West -35 5 £87,500 +20.69% 4
West Midlands +3 1 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Yorkshire -38 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 (15.22%) nginx
2 6 (13.04%) Apache
3 5 (10.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 25 (54.35%) AWS
2 24 (52.17%) Azure
3 16 (34.78%) GCP
4 13 (28.26%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (28.26%) Serverless
5 10 (21.74%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (21.74%) OpenShift
6 9 (19.57%) GitHub
7 8 (17.39%) Amazon S3
8 7 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (10.87%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (10.87%) SaaS
10 4 (8.70%) Azure AKS
10 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (8.70%) Datadog
10 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) AMQP
2 3 (6.52%) VPN
3 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) MySQL
2 12 (26.09%) NoSQL
3 8 (17.39%) Redis
4 7 (15.22%) DynamoDB
4 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
5 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (10.87%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (10.87%) Big Data
6 5 (10.87%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (10.87%) Hadoop
7 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.35%) PostHog
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (2.17%) CockroachDB
9 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) git-flow
2 5 (10.87%) GitLab
3 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (4.35%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.17%) JUnit
6 1 (2.17%) mountebank
6 1 (2.17%) Postman
6 1 (2.17%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.17%) Subversion
6 1 (2.17%) TestNG
General
1 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 5 (10.87%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.17%) Advertising
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Developer
1 17 (36.96%) Senior
2 12 (26.09%) Software Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Senior Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Lead
5 7 (15.22%) Software Developer
6 6 (13.04%) .NET Developer
6 6 (13.04%) .NET Software Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Backend Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) PHP Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Senior Backend Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Senior PHP Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (45.65%) .NET
2 15 (32.61%) React
3 11 (23.91%) Kafka
4 10 (21.74%) Material-UI
5 8 (17.39%) AngularJS
5 8 (17.39%) Node.js
6 7 (15.22%) CSS
6 7 (15.22%) REST
6 7 (15.22%) Spring
7 6 (13.04%) gRPC
7 6 (13.04%) HTML
8 5 (10.87%) AWS CDK
8 5 (10.87%) OpenAPI
8 5 (10.87%) Spring Boot
8 5 (10.87%) Swagger
9 4 (8.70%) .NET Core
9 4 (8.70%) OAuth
9 4 (8.70%) SAML
10 3 (6.52%) MassTransit
10 3 (6.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
6 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Sports Betting
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) CentOS
2 5 (10.87%) Debian
2 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.35%) VMS
3 2 (4.35%) Windows
4 1 (2.17%) Android
4 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) CI/CD
2 26 (56.52%) Agile
3 25 (54.35%) DevOps
4 21 (45.65%) Microservices
5 18 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (36.96%) Containerisation
7 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
8 13 (28.26%) Observability
9 11 (23.91%) Event-Driven
10 10 (21.74%) Mentoring
11 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (15.22%) Configuration Management
13 7 (15.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 7 (15.22%) Software Delivery
14 6 (13.04%) Data Modelling
14 6 (13.04%) E-Commerce
14 6 (13.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 6 (13.04%) Scrum
14 6 (13.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) C#
2 12 (26.09%) Python
3 11 (23.91%) Java
4 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 7 (15.22%) SQL
6 6 (13.04%) PHP
7 4 (8.70%) Bash
7 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.17%) C++
8 1 (2.17%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (39.13%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (58.70%) Kubernetes
2 17 (36.96%) Terraform
3 10 (21.74%) Grafana
4 9 (19.57%) Ansible
5 8 (17.39%) Prometheus
6 5 (10.87%) Puppet
7 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Google
1 9 (19.57%) Red Hat
2 5 (10.87%) SaltStack
3 4 (8.70%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (2.17%) Adobe
5 1 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk