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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 453 376
Rank change year-on-year -11 -77 +182
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 43 147 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.33% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 1.76% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 31 87 148
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £57,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -10.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.79% -3.33% +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 3,744 8,351 7,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.92% 18.80% 24.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,823 4,768 5,693
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,750 £45,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +28 17 £71,250 -5.00% 15
North West +38 13 £71,250 -5.00% 15
South East -18 10 £70,000 +3.70% 25
South West -3 7 £90,000 +18.03% 12
Midlands +46 5 £65,000 +23.81% 10
East Midlands +22 4 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Yorkshire 0 4 - -
East of England +26 3 £100,000 +100.00% 2
West Midlands +50 1 £70,000 +129.51% 9
Scotland - 1 £77,500 - 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 5 (11.63%) nginx
2 4 (9.30%) IIS
3 2 (4.65%) Apache
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 31 (72.09%) AWS
2 22 (51.16%) Azure
3 14 (32.56%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (32.56%) Serverless
4 12 (27.91%) Amazon S3
4 12 (27.91%) GCP
5 11 (25.58%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (20.93%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (16.28%) Azure AKS
8 6 (13.95%) OpenShift
9 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (11.63%) GitHub
9 5 (11.63%) SaaS
10 4 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (9.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (9.30%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (9.30%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (9.30%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) AMQP
2 2 (4.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.91%) NoSQL
1 12 (27.91%) SQL Server
2 9 (20.93%) MySQL
2 9 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (18.60%) DynamoDB
3 8 (18.60%) MongoDB
4 6 (13.95%) Redis
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (9.30%) InfluxDB
6 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.65%) Big Data
7 2 (4.65%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.33%) ClickHouse
8 1 (2.33%) Hazelcast
8 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Git
2 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.63%) git-flow
4 4 (9.30%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.33%) ESLint
5 1 (2.33%) GitLab
5 1 (2.33%) JIRA
5 1 (2.33%) JUnit
5 1 (2.33%) Maven
5 1 (2.33%) mountebank
5 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.33%) Storybook
5 1 (2.33%) Subversion
5 1 (2.33%) webpack
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.65%) Advertising
2 2 (4.65%) Aerospace
2 2 (4.65%) Finance
2 2 (4.65%) Tech for Good
3 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Banking
3 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Senior
2 10 (23.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (20.93%) Developer
3 9 (20.93%) Lead
4 8 (18.60%) Software Engineer
5 7 (16.28%) Senior Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (9.30%) Architect
7 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Technical Architect
8 3 (6.98%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Site Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (46.51%) .NET
2 16 (37.21%) Kafka
3 12 (27.91%) React
4 8 (18.60%) Material-UI
5 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
5 7 (16.28%) CSS
5 7 (16.28%) RESTful
6 6 (13.95%) gRPC
6 6 (13.95%) HTML
6 6 (13.95%) Loki
6 6 (13.95%) REST
7 5 (11.63%) AWS CDK
7 5 (11.63%) Spring
8 4 (9.30%) ARM Templates
8 4 (9.30%) Django
8 4 (9.30%) FastAPI
8 4 (9.30%) GraphQL
8 4 (9.30%) Node.js
8 4 (9.30%) Spring Boot
8 4 (9.30%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Cloud Native
1 12 (27.91%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) IoT
4 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) Life Science
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) CentOS
3 2 (4.65%) Debian
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) CI/CD
2 29 (67.44%) DevOps
2 29 (67.44%) Microservices
3 25 (58.14%) Agile
4 18 (41.86%) Mentoring
5 14 (32.56%) Software Engineering
6 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (25.58%) Event-Driven
7 11 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (20.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (18.60%) Observability
10 7 (16.28%) AI
11 6 (13.95%) Cloud Security
11 6 (13.95%) Configuration Management
11 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
11 6 (13.95%) Machine Learning
11 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (13.95%) Software Delivery
12 5 (11.63%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 19 (44.19%) C#
2 15 (34.88%) SQL
3 13 (30.23%) Python
4 10 (23.26%) Java
5 8 (18.60%) TypeScript
6 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.30%) Bicep
7 4 (9.30%) Go
7 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
8 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.33%) PHP
9 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
1 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (58.14%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.65%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (62.79%) Kubernetes
2 14 (32.56%) Grafana
3 12 (27.91%) Prometheus
3 12 (27.91%) Terraform
4 8 (18.60%) Ansible
5 4 (9.30%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.98%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (4.65%) Puppet
8 1 (2.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Google
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.65%) SaltStack
2 2 (4.65%) VMware
3 1 (2.33%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (2.33%) IBM
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle