Pivotal Software RabbitMQ
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring RabbitMQ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 498 596
Rank change year-on-year -93 +98 -299
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 125 158 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 1.83% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 99 120 252
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,125 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £107,500 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £140,000 £101,625 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -5.74%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,976 8,636 20,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 19.75% 21.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,606 6,233 15,765
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

RabbitMQ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RabbitMQ job vacancy trend in the UK

RabbitMQ
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RabbitMQ.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RabbitMQ over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for RabbitMQ in the UK

RabbitMQ
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RabbitMQ within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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 -80 116 £80,000 +28.00% 39
London -8 59 £100,000 +37.93% 24
UK excluding London -79 56 £60,000 - 22
Work from Home -21 39 £77,500 +29.17% 13
South East -24 26 £58,750 -6.00% 6
North of England -36 14 £77,500 +3.33% 5
Midlands -43 8 £65,000 +8.33% 4
North West -10 7 £75,000 - 4
East Midlands -35 7 £65,000 +8.33% 3
South West -44 7 £87,500 +34.62% 1
Yorkshire -49 7 £82,500 +17.86% 1
East of England -20 5 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Scotland -1 1 - - 4
West Midlands -33 1 £55,000 -8.33% 1

RabbitMQ
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 8 (6.40%) nginx
2 6 (4.80%) Apache
3 5 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.80%) Camunda
5 1 (0.80%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.80%) Endur
2 1 (0.80%) Magento
2 1 (0.80%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (59.20%) AWS
2 57 (45.60%) Azure
3 43 (34.40%) Serverless
4 35 (28.00%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (20.80%) Amazon S3
6 24 (19.20%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (19.20%) Datadog
7 22 (17.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (16.00%) GCP
9 17 (13.60%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (12.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (11.20%) GitHub
13 13 (10.40%) OpenShift
14 12 (9.60%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (9.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (8.00%) SaaS
16 6 (4.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.40%) AMQP
2 3 (2.40%) VPN
3 2 (1.60%) Network Security
4 1 (0.80%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.80%) NoSQL
2 25 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 22 (17.60%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (13.60%) DynamoDB
5 16 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (12.00%) MySQL
6 15 (12.00%) Redis
7 13 (10.40%) Relational Database
8 7 (5.60%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.20%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (3.20%) Big Data
9 4 (3.20%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (3.20%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.60%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.60%) PostHog
10 2 (1.60%) Power BI
10 2 (1.60%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.80%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 34 (27.20%) GitLab
2 29 (23.20%) Jenkins
3 27 (21.60%) Git
4 16 (12.80%) CircleCI
5 6 (4.80%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.00%) JIRA
7 4 (3.20%) JUnit
7 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.40%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.60%) git-flow
9 2 (1.60%) Mockito
9 2 (1.60%) Postman
9 2 (1.60%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.80%) Mocha
10 1 (0.80%) Selenium
10 1 (0.80%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.80%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.80%) webpack
General
1 37 (29.60%) Finance
2 31 (24.80%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (14.40%) Banking
5 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.80%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.00%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.00%) Retail
8 2 (1.60%) Back Office
8 2 (1.60%) Games
8 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.80%) Advertising
9 1 (0.80%) Automotive
9 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.80%) Front Office
9 1 (0.80%) iGaming
9 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.80%) Legal
Job Titles
1 66 (52.80%) Developer
2 42 (33.60%) Senior
3 29 (23.20%) Senior Developer
4 19 (15.20%) Software Engineer
5 17 (13.60%) Lead
6 15 (12.00%) Software Developer
7 14 (11.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (8.80%) Java Developer
9 10 (8.00%) Java Engineer
10 9 (7.20%) .NET Developer
11 8 (6.40%) Backend Developer
12 7 (5.60%) Architect
13 6 (4.80%) .NET Software Developer
13 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
14 5 (4.00%) C# Developer
14 5 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
14 5 (4.00%) PHP Developer
14 5 (4.00%) Python Engineer
14 5 (4.00%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (54.40%) Kafka
2 45 (36.00%) REST
3 41 (32.80%) RESTful
4 30 (24.00%) .NET
5 25 (20.00%) gRPC
6 23 (18.40%) React
7 22 (17.60%) Spring
8 19 (15.20%) Spring Boot
9 18 (14.40%) AngularJS
10 17 (13.60%) OAuth
10 17 (13.60%) web3js
11 14 (11.20%) JSON
12 11 (8.80%) Node.js
13 10 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (7.20%) SOAP
15 8 (6.40%) Hibernate
15 8 (6.40%) JWT
15 8 (6.40%) OAuth2
15 8 (6.40%) SAML
15 8 (6.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (30.40%) Cloud Native
2 31 (24.80%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (13.60%) Blockchain
3 17 (13.60%) Web3
4 9 (7.20%) Onboarding
5 8 (6.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (5.60%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.40%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.40%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.40%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.60%) Robotics
9 2 (1.60%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.40%) Linux
2 4 (3.20%) CentOS
2 4 (3.20%) Debian
2 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.80%) Android
3 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (73.60%) CI/CD
2 72 (57.60%) DevOps
3 65 (52.00%) Microservices
4 58 (46.40%) Containerisation
5 51 (40.80%) Event-Driven
6 49 (39.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (37.60%) Software Engineering
8 44 (35.20%) Agile
9 43 (34.40%) Test Automation
10 38 (30.40%) Observability
11 29 (23.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 29 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
13 24 (19.20%) Low Latency
14 22 (17.60%) Analytics
15 19 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (15.20%) Risk Management
15 19 (15.20%) TDD
16 18 (14.40%) Continuous Integration
17 17 (13.60%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 39 (31.20%) Java
2 37 (29.60%) SQL
3 36 (28.80%) Python
4 31 (24.80%) C#
5 21 (16.80%) Go
6 16 (12.80%) JavaScript
7 12 (9.60%) TypeScript
8 10 (8.00%) PowerShell
9 9 (7.20%) PHP
10 8 (6.40%) Bash
11 5 (4.00%) Groovy
12 4 (3.20%) PL/SQL
12 4 (3.20%) T-SQL
13 3 (2.40%) C++
14 2 (1.60%) Apex Code
14 2 (1.60%) Perl
15 1 (0.80%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.80%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.80%) Scala
15 1 (0.80%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.60%) Degree
4 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.20%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (59.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 81 (64.80%) Kubernetes
2 52 (41.60%) Terraform
3 32 (25.60%) Prometheus
4 21 (16.80%) Ansible
5 18 (14.40%) Grafana
6 6 (4.80%) Puppet
7 5 (4.00%) Kibana
8 4 (3.20%) Packer
9 2 (1.60%) Argo
9 2 (1.60%) Salt
10 1 (0.80%) logstash
10 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (9.60%) Red Hat
2 8 (6.40%) AppDynamics
2 8 (6.40%) Dynatrace
2 8 (6.40%) Google
2 8 (6.40%) IBM
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.00%) Oracle
5 4 (3.20%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.60%) PayPal
6 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.60%) Solace
7 1 (0.80%) Adobe
7 1 (0.80%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.80%) Sage
7 1 (0.80%) Splunk
7 1 (0.80%) WooCommerce