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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 462 523
Rank change year-on-year -91 +61 -301
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 72 79 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 1.54% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 56 60 169
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £79,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £71,250 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -10.71%

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 6,135 5,114 13,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.57% 15.13% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,935 3,236 9,821
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £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 £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -10.45%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -12 28 £60,000 -14.29% 16
North of England -38 15 £63,750 -8.93% 2
East of England -9 11 £72,500 +45.00% 5
North West -9 9 £62,500 -10.71% 2
Midlands -21 9 £62,500 +4.17% 7
East Midlands -30 8 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Wales - 8 £70,000 - 4
Yorkshire -33 6 £82,500 +17.86%
South West -57 5 - - 5
Scotland +12 1 - -
West Midlands -36 1 £55,000 -8.33% 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 5 (6.94%) Apache
2 4 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (1.39%) Magento
1 1 (1.39%) Sage 200
1 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (69.44%) Azure
2 37 (51.39%) AWS
3 19 (26.39%) GCP
4 16 (22.22%) GitHub
4 16 (22.22%) OpenShift
5 14 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (19.44%) Serverless
6 12 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (15.28%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (11.11%) Datadog
10 7 (9.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (6.94%) Amazon S3
12 4 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
14 2 (2.78%) ChatGPT
14 2 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
14 2 (2.78%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) MQTT
2 4 (5.56%) AMQP
3 2 (2.78%) Firewall
3 2 (2.78%) VLAN
3 2 (2.78%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) HTTP
4 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (18.06%) NoSQL
3 11 (15.28%) MongoDB
3 11 (15.28%) MySQL
4 9 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
6 6 (8.33%) Redis
7 4 (5.56%) Big Data
7 4 (5.56%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (5.56%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.78%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.39%) Power BI
9 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (43.06%) Git
2 14 (19.44%) GitLab
3 11 (15.28%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.94%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.56%) JIRA
5 4 (5.56%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.17%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.39%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (1.39%) JUnit
8 1 (1.39%) minitest
8 1 (1.39%) Mockito
8 1 (1.39%) RSpec
8 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (15.28%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Aerospace
6 4 (5.56%) Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Finance
8 1 (1.39%) Advertising
8 1 (1.39%) Automotive
8 1 (1.39%) Aviation
8 1 (1.39%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.39%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (44.44%) Developer
2 15 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (19.44%) Senior
4 11 (15.28%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Architect
6 8 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 7 (9.72%) Backend Developer
7 7 (9.72%) Lead
7 7 (9.72%) Python Developer
7 7 (9.72%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Integration Architect
8 6 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
9 5 (6.94%) .NET Software Developer
10 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 2 (2.78%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (43.06%) Kafka
2 29 (40.28%) REST
2 29 (40.28%) RESTful
3 22 (30.56%) Spring
4 21 (29.17%) Spring Boot
5 15 (20.83%) AngularJS
5 15 (20.83%) OAuth
6 14 (19.44%) .NET
6 14 (19.44%) JPA
7 13 (18.06%) React
8 12 (16.67%) Node.js
9 11 (15.28%) Hibernate
9 11 (15.28%) JSON
9 11 (15.28%) OpenAPI
9 11 (15.28%) Swagger
10 9 (12.50%) SAML
11 8 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (11.11%) FastAPI
11 8 (11.11%) Middleware
12 7 (9.72%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (36.11%) Cloud Native
1 26 (36.11%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (15.28%) Product Ownership
3 8 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (9.72%) Onboarding
5 6 (8.33%) Virtual Team
6 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
7 3 (4.17%) Data Structures
7 3 (4.17%) Robotics
8 2 (2.78%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.78%) SCADA
9 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Linux
2 4 (5.56%) CentOS
2 4 (5.56%) Debian
2 4 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.56%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
4 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.39%) Android
5 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (69.44%) CI/CD
2 47 (65.28%) DevOps
3 40 (55.56%) Agile
3 40 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 36 (50.00%) Microservices
5 31 (43.06%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (40.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (30.56%) Observability
8 21 (29.17%) Event-Driven
8 21 (29.17%) Software Engineering
9 19 (26.39%) API Design
10 18 (25.00%) Scrum
11 14 (19.44%) Mentoring
11 14 (19.44%) Roadmaps
12 13 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (18.06%) Test Automation
13 12 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 11 (15.28%) Decision-Making
14 11 (15.28%) Secure Coding
14 11 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.22%) Java
2 24 (33.33%) Python
3 22 (30.56%) SQL
4 13 (18.06%) C#
5 12 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 10 (13.89%) Bash
7 7 (9.72%) JavaScript
8 6 (8.33%) C++
9 4 (5.56%) Groovy
9 4 (5.56%) PL/SQL
9 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.78%) Perl
11 1 (1.39%) C
11 1 (1.39%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.39%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.39%) Ruby
11 1 (1.39%) Rust
11 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) Degree
4 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) CISSP
5 2 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (80.56%) Kubernetes
2 35 (48.61%) Terraform
3 16 (22.22%) Grafana
4 15 (20.83%) Ansible
4 15 (20.83%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.56%) Istio
5 4 (5.56%) Kibana
5 4 (5.56%) linkerd
5 4 (5.56%) Packer
5 4 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 9 (12.50%) Google
2 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 8 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 8 (11.11%) IBM
4 4 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.56%) Oracle
4 4 (5.56%) SaltStack
4 4 (5.56%) Splunk
5 2 (2.78%) VMware
6 1 (1.39%) Dell
6 1 (1.39%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.39%) Infor
6 1 (1.39%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.39%) Sage
6 1 (1.39%) Veracode
6 1 (1.39%) WooCommerce