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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 481 444
Rank change year-on-year -70 -37 -42
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 98 56 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.16% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 1.21% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 76 43 112
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £59,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 7,198 4,612 9,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.35% 13.28% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,525 2,774 5,775
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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
East of England -13 23 £72,500 +45.00% 7
South East -47 20 £72,500 +3.57% 19
Wales - 20 £62,000 - 5
North of England -67 17 £62,500 -13.79% 14
North West -21 14 £62,500 -12.28% 11
Midlands -37 9 £65,000 -7.14% 10
South West -67 9 £65,600 -27.11% 2
East Midlands -24 8 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Yorkshire -36 3 £78,500 -21.50% 3
West Midlands -43 1 £55,000 -21.43% 8
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 10 (10.20%) Apache
2 7 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.06%) JBoss
4 2 (2.04%) Confluence
4 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.04%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (1.02%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 67 (68.37%) Azure
2 58 (59.18%) AWS
3 34 (34.69%) GCP
4 25 (25.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (20.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (12.24%) OpenShift
7 10 (10.20%) GitHub
8 9 (9.18%) Serverless
9 8 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (8.16%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.08%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (4.08%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (3.06%) Boomi
12 3 (3.06%) ChatGPT
12 3 (3.06%) Google Gemini
12 3 (3.06%) Stripe
13 2 (2.04%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.41%) MQTT
2 7 (7.14%) AMQP
3 5 (5.10%) Internet
4 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.06%) HTTP
6 2 (2.04%) 4G
6 2 (2.04%) 5G
6 2 (2.04%) DNS
6 2 (2.04%) Firewall
6 2 (2.04%) SSH
6 2 (2.04%) VLAN
6 2 (2.04%) VPN
6 2 (2.04%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.02%) LAN
7 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (32.65%) MySQL
2 29 (29.59%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (25.51%) NoSQL
4 24 (24.49%) MongoDB
5 13 (13.27%) Redis
6 7 (7.14%) Big Data
6 7 (7.14%) Cloudera CDH
6 7 (7.14%) Hadoop
6 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.06%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.04%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.02%) Db2
10 1 (1.02%) GIS
10 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.02%) Spatial Data
10 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.02%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 34 (34.69%) Git
2 10 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.12%) GitLab
4 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.06%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.04%) JIRA
5 2 (2.04%) Maven
5 2 (2.04%) minitest
5 2 (2.04%) RSpec
5 2 (2.04%) Selenium
6 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.02%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.02%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.31%) Banking
4 8 (8.16%) Aerospace
5 7 (7.14%) Social Skills
6 6 (6.12%) Finance
6 6 (6.12%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.04%) Aviation
7 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.04%) Legal
7 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.02%) Advertising
8 1 (1.02%) iGaming
8 1 (1.02%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.02%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Publishing
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (51.02%) Developer
2 37 (37.76%) Senior
3 20 (20.41%) Senior Developer
4 18 (18.37%) Software Engineer
5 17 (17.35%) Java Developer
6 16 (16.33%) Python Developer
7 13 (13.27%) Senior Python Developer
8 12 (12.24%) Lead
9 9 (9.18%) Software Developer
10 8 (8.16%) Architect
11 7 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 7 (7.14%) Python Engineer
11 7 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
12 5 (5.10%) Backend Developer
12 5 (5.10%) Integration Architect
12 5 (5.10%) Lead Developer
12 5 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 4 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (66.33%) Kafka
2 53 (54.08%) RESTful
3 36 (36.73%) Spring
4 35 (35.71%) REST
5 34 (34.69%) Terraform
6 33 (33.67%) Spring Boot
7 27 (27.55%) OpenAPI
7 27 (27.55%) Swagger
8 24 (24.49%) FastAPI
9 23 (23.47%) Hibernate
10 21 (21.43%) JPA
11 20 (20.41%) Node.js
12 14 (14.29%) AngularJS
13 13 (13.27%) React
14 10 (10.20%) .NET
15 9 (9.18%) Middleware
16 7 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
16 7 (7.14%) gRPC
16 7 (7.14%) JSON
16 7 (7.14%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 52 (53.06%) Cloud Native
2 32 (32.65%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (23.47%) Product Ownership
4 16 (16.33%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (16.33%) Virtual Team
5 15 (15.31%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (6.12%) Onboarding
7 5 (5.10%) IoT
8 4 (4.08%) PKI
8 4 (4.08%) Robotics
9 3 (3.06%) AI Agents
9 3 (3.06%) Algorithms
9 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (2.04%) SCADA
11 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
11 1 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.47%) Linux
2 8 (8.16%) CentOS
2 8 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.14%) Debian
3 7 (7.14%) Ubuntu
3 7 (7.14%) Windows
4 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (60.20%) Containerisation
2 52 (53.06%) Software Engineering
3 51 (52.04%) CI/CD
4 47 (47.96%) Agile
4 47 (47.96%) Event-Driven
5 46 (46.94%) Microservices
6 45 (45.92%) DevOps
7 42 (42.86%) Mentoring
8 41 (41.84%) API Design
9 37 (37.76%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (37.76%) Roadmaps
10 33 (33.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (30.61%) Scrum
12 26 (26.53%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (25.51%) Secure Coding
14 24 (24.49%) AI
15 23 (23.47%) Observability
15 23 (23.47%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (23.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 22 (22.45%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 46 (46.94%) Java
2 42 (42.86%) Python
3 22 (22.45%) SQL
4 15 (15.31%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.22%) C#
5 11 (11.22%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.18%) C++
7 8 (8.16%) PHP
8 4 (4.08%) Bash
8 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.06%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.04%) Ruby
11 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.02%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.14%) Degree
2 7 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 7 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.04%) CISSP
4 2 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.02%) HND
5 1 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (24.49%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 68 (69.39%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (70.41%) Kubernetes
2 20 (20.41%) Grafana
3 19 (19.39%) Prometheus
4 13 (13.27%) Ansible
5 7 (7.14%) Puppet
6 4 (4.08%) Istio
6 4 (4.08%) linkerd
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (17.35%) Google
2 15 (15.31%) Splunk
3 9 (9.18%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.16%) OpenAI
5 7 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 7 (7.14%) SaltStack
6 4 (4.08%) VMware
7 3 (3.06%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle
9 1 (1.02%) Dell
9 1 (1.02%) DevExpress
9 1 (1.02%) Infor
9 1 (1.02%) Sage
9 1 (1.02%) Sparx
9 1 (1.02%) Veracode
9 1 (1.02%) YouTube