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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 418 466
Rank change year-on-year -70 +48 +82
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 42 145 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.41% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 2.09% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 29 92 121
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,250 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.24% +11.54% -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 3,972 6,941 9,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.98% 19.55% 22.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,029 3,842 7,626
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,250 £46,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £57,670 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +4.85% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 January 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 January 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
North of England -1 13 £70,000 -6.67% 13
North West +14 12 £70,000 -6.67% 11
South East -19 10 £57,500 -14.81% 29
South West -18 8 £90,000 +18.03% 1
Midlands +8 6 £65,000 +8.33% 4
East of England +22 5 £55,000 +10.00% 11
East Midlands -7 5 £65,000 +8.33% 3
West Midlands +33 1 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Yorkshire -25 1 - - 1
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 (16.67%) nginx
2 6 (14.29%) Apache
3 5 (11.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) AWS
2 20 (47.62%) Azure
3 16 (38.10%) GCP
4 15 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (35.71%) Serverless
5 10 (23.81%) Amazon S3
5 10 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (19.05%) OpenShift
8 7 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (11.90%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (11.90%) GitHub
9 5 (11.90%) SaaS
10 4 (9.52%) Azure AKS
11 2 (4.76%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (4.76%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) AMQP
2 3 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) MySQL
2 12 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 8 (19.05%) Redis
3 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
4 7 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (11.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (11.90%) Big Data
6 5 (11.90%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (11.90%) Hadoop
7 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (7.14%) InfluxDB
9 2 (4.76%) PostHog
9 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.38%) CockroachDB
10 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Git
2 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.90%) git-flow
4 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.76%) JIRA
5 2 (4.76%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) GitLab
6 1 (2.38%) JUnit
6 1 (2.38%) mountebank
6 1 (2.38%) Postman
6 1 (2.38%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.38%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.38%) Subversion
6 1 (2.38%) TestNG
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Aerospace
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.38%) Advertising
5 1 (2.38%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Senior
2 15 (35.71%) Developer
3 12 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 11 (26.19%) Senior Developer
5 9 (21.43%) Lead
6 5 (11.90%) Backend Developer
6 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) PHP Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Backend Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) .NET Developer
7 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Senior PHP Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Software Developer
8 3 (7.14%) .NET Software Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (45.24%) .NET
2 15 (35.71%) React
3 12 (28.57%) Kafka
4 10 (23.81%) Material-UI
5 9 (21.43%) AngularJS
6 8 (19.05%) Node.js
6 8 (19.05%) Spring
7 7 (16.67%) CSS
7 7 (16.67%) REST
8 6 (14.29%) gRPC
8 6 (14.29%) HTML
8 6 (14.29%) Spring Boot
9 5 (11.90%) AWS CDK
9 5 (11.90%) OpenAPI
9 5 (11.90%) Swagger
10 4 (9.52%) .NET Core
11 3 (7.14%) .NET Framework
11 3 (7.14%) Entity Framework
11 3 (7.14%) RESTful
11 3 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 7 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.38%) PKI
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) Sports Betting
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (28.57%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) CentOS
2 5 (11.90%) Debian
2 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.76%) VMS
3 2 (4.76%) Windows
4 1 (2.38%) Android
4 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) CI/CD
2 24 (57.14%) Agile
3 23 (54.76%) DevOps
3 23 (54.76%) Microservices
4 16 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (38.10%) Software Engineering
5 14 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 12 (28.57%) Event-Driven
6 12 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 9 (21.43%) Configuration Management
8 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (19.05%) Observability
9 7 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (16.67%) Scrum
9 7 (16.67%) Software Delivery
10 6 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 6 (14.29%) E-Commerce
10 6 (14.29%) Kanban
10 6 (14.29%) TDD
10 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) C#
2 14 (33.33%) Java
2 14 (33.33%) Python
3 10 (23.81%) SQL
4 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 8 (19.05%) TypeScript
6 6 (14.29%) PHP
7 3 (7.14%) Go
8 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.38%) C++
9 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (40.48%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (59.52%) Kubernetes
2 14 (33.33%) Terraform
3 11 (26.19%) Ansible
4 7 (16.67%) Grafana
5 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
5 5 (11.90%) Puppet
6 3 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Google
2 5 (11.90%) Red Hat
2 5 (11.90%) SaltStack
3 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) Adobe
4 1 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) Splunk