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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 439 525
Rank change year-on-year -80 +86 -263
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 57 79 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 1.66% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 41 65 172
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,500 £87,500
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 5,294 4,758 13,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.87% 16.80% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,199 3,046 10,401
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 27 May 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 May 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 -17 26 £58,750 -6.00% 12
North of England -29 14 £72,500 - 5
Midlands -40 9 £65,000 +8.33% 4
East Midlands -34 8 £65,000 +8.33% 2
North West -18 7 £67,500 -6.90% 5
Yorkshire -37 7 £82,500 +10.00%
East of England -26 6 £55,000 +2.33% 5
South West -58 6 - - 8
Scotland -3 1 - - 2
West Midlands -45 1 £55,000 -8.33% 2
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 (12.28%) Apache
2 6 (10.53%) nginx
3 5 (8.77%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Magento
1 1 (1.75%) Sage 200
1 1 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (63.16%) Azure
2 28 (49.12%) AWS
3 14 (24.56%) OpenShift
3 14 (24.56%) Serverless
4 13 (22.81%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (21.05%) GCP
6 11 (19.30%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (15.79%) GitHub
7 9 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (14.04%) Datadog
9 5 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
12 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.75%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) AMQP
2 3 (5.26%) VPN
3 2 (3.51%) MQTT
4 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) NoSQL
1 9 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.28%) MySQL
3 5 (8.77%) Big Data
3 5 (8.77%) Cloudera CDH
3 5 (8.77%) Hadoop
3 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) Redis
4 4 (7.02%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.75%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.75%) PostHog
5 1 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (38.60%) Git
2 13 (22.81%) GitLab
3 10 (17.54%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.53%) Cucumber
5 5 (8.77%) JIRA
6 4 (7.02%) SonarQube
7 3 (5.26%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.51%) JUnit
9 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.75%) Mockito
9 1 (1.75%) Postman
9 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.75%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.75%) TestNG
9 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Manufacturing
3 6 (10.53%) Aerospace
3 6 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Advertising
5 1 (1.75%) Automotive
5 1 (1.75%) Aviation
5 1 (1.75%) Games
5 1 (1.75%) Legal
5 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) Developer
2 14 (24.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Senior
3 10 (17.54%) Software Developer
4 8 (14.04%) Backend Developer
4 8 (14.04%) Software Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Java Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Lead
6 6 (10.53%) .NET Developer
6 6 (10.53%) .NET Software Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Architect
6 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Integration Architect
7 5 (8.77%) PHP Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Backend Developer
8 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Senior PHP Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.11%) REST
2 17 (29.82%) .NET
3 16 (28.07%) AngularJS
4 15 (26.32%) OAuth
5 13 (22.81%) Kafka
5 13 (22.81%) React
6 12 (21.05%) Spring
7 11 (19.30%) JSON
7 11 (19.30%) RESTful
8 10 (17.54%) Spring Boot
9 9 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (14.04%) Node.js
10 8 (14.04%) SAML
11 7 (12.28%) gRPC
11 7 (12.28%) JWT
11 7 (12.28%) OpenAPI
11 7 (12.28%) Swagger
12 6 (10.53%) Middleware
12 6 (10.53%) OAuth2
12 6 (10.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Cloud Native
1 14 (24.56%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (14.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (12.28%) Onboarding
4 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.26%) Robotics
6 2 (3.51%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.75%) PKI
7 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.75%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) CentOS
2 5 (8.77%) Debian
2 5 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (64.91%) CI/CD
2 35 (61.40%) DevOps
3 31 (54.39%) Agile
4 26 (45.61%) Containerisation
5 25 (43.86%) Microservices
6 19 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (24.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (24.56%) Software Engineering
9 13 (22.81%) Test Automation
10 12 (21.05%) Observability
11 11 (19.30%) Event-Driven
12 10 (17.54%) API Design
12 10 (17.54%) Scrum
12 10 (17.54%) TDD
13 9 (15.79%) Kanban
14 8 (14.04%) Batch Processing
15 7 (12.28%) Integration Patterns
15 7 (12.28%) Mentoring
16 6 (10.53%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) Java
2 18 (31.58%) C#
2 18 (31.58%) Python
2 18 (31.58%) SQL
3 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 8 (14.04%) Bash
5 5 (8.77%) PHP
6 4 (7.02%) Groovy
6 4 (7.02%) PL/SQL
6 4 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.26%) C++
8 2 (3.51%) Perl
9 1 (1.75%) C
9 1 (1.75%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.75%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.75%) Rust
9 1 (1.75%) Scala
9 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) Degree
4 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (54.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (68.42%) Kubernetes
2 25 (43.86%) Terraform
3 14 (24.56%) Ansible
4 10 (17.54%) Grafana
5 9 (15.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (8.77%) Puppet
7 4 (7.02%) Kibana
7 4 (7.02%) Packer
8 1 (1.75%) Istio
8 1 (1.75%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Red Hat
2 9 (15.79%) Google
3 8 (14.04%) AppDynamics
3 8 (14.04%) Dynatrace
3 8 (14.04%) IBM
4 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.77%) Oracle
5 5 (8.77%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.75%) Adobe
6 1 (1.75%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.75%) Sage
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) WooCommerce