Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AMQP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 748 671 840
Rank change year-on-year -77 +169 -16
Permanent jobs citing AMQP 12 2 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.004% 0.031%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.028% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile £59,250 £56,500 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -39.53% +26.47%
75th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £111,250
90th Percentile £101,500 £69,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £83,750 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +39.58% -25.00% +20.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

AMQP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,338 7,184 12,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.36% 14.59% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,722 4,154 8,323
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -7.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,094 £44,886
% change year-on-year +11.57% -15.13% -0.25%

AMQP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AMQP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AMQP job vacancy trend in the UK

AMQP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AMQP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AMQP

AMQP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AMQP over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for AMQP in the UK

AMQP
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AMQP within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England -60 10 £77,500 +19.23% 2
UK excluding London -75 6 £83,750 +39.58% 2
London -39 5 £81,250 +16.07% 1
Work from Home - 3 £62,500 -
South West -62 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
East of England - 1 £62,500 -
Scotland - 1 £105,000 -

AMQP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (58.33%) Serverless
3 5 (41.67%) Azure
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (33.33%) GCP
4 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (25.00%) SaaS
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (8.33%) AWS IoT
7 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) MQTT
2 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (8.33%) Modbus
2 1 (8.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
1 4 (33.33%) Cloudera CDH
1 4 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (8.33%) GIS
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Games
3 1 (8.33%) Health Technology
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Messaging Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Messaging Specialist
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Head of Development
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (58.33%) React
2 7 (58.33%) REST
2 7 (58.33%) Spring
2 7 (58.33%) Spring Boot
3 6 (50.00%) Node.js
4 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 4 (33.33%) gRPC
4 4 (33.33%) Material-UI
4 4 (33.33%) OpenAPI
4 4 (33.33%) Swagger
5 3 (25.00%) Kafka
6 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (16.67%) JMS
6 2 (16.67%) Spring Security
7 1 (8.33%) .NET
7 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
7 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
7 1 (8.33%) HTML
7 1 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Blog
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (16.67%) IoT
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) CentOS
1 4 (33.33%) Debian
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Microservices
2 7 (58.33%) Open Source
2 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (33.33%) API Development
5 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (33.33%) Kanban
5 4 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (33.33%) Scrum
6 3 (25.00%) AI
6 3 (25.00%) Analytics
6 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Ansible
3 4 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 4 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) TIBCO
3 1 (8.33%) Cognizant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Solace