RabbitMQ Job Trends

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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 466 456
Rank change year-on-year -90 -10 +76
Permanent jobs citing RabbitMQ 95 257 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.47% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 2.17% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 76 166 222
10th Percentile £53,125 £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £59,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% - -
75th Percentile £103,125 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +16.67%

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 7,011 11,847 12,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 21.45% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,218 7,037 10,585
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for RabbitMQ in the UK

RabbitMQ
Top 12 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 1 January 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 93 £82,500 +13.79% 70
Work from Home -7 50 £77,500 +10.71% 46
UK excluding London -37 45 £70,000 +3.70% 46
London -31 43 £100,000 +11.11% 30
North of England +15 19 £72,500 -3.33% 12
North West +21 15 £72,500 -3.33% 11
South East -23 11 £57,500 -14.81% 17
South West -17 7 £92,500 +21.31% 5
Midlands +14 5 £65,000 +8.33% 3
East Midlands -10 5 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Yorkshire -7 4 - - 1
East of England +19 3 £100,000 +100.00% 7

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 10 (10.53%) nginx
2 7 (7.37%) Apache
3 5 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.11%) Luigi
5 1 (1.05%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.05%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 66 (69.47%) AWS
2 33 (34.74%) Azure
3 28 (29.47%) GCP
4 23 (24.21%) Serverless
5 21 (22.11%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (17.89%) Amazon S3
7 15 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (12.63%) SaaS
9 11 (11.58%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (11.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (10.53%) GitHub
11 9 (9.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (8.42%) OpenShift
13 5 (5.26%) Azure AKS
13 5 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (3.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 3 (3.16%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.58%) AMQP
2 3 (3.16%) VPN
3 1 (1.05%) FTP
3 1 (1.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.74%) MongoDB
2 23 (24.21%) NoSQL
2 23 (24.21%) SQL Server
3 15 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (14.74%) MySQL
5 10 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (10.53%) DynamoDB
5 10 (10.53%) Redis
6 7 (7.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (5.26%) Hadoop
8 5 (5.26%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.21%) InfluxDB
10 3 (3.16%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (3.16%) Big Data
10 3 (3.16%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (2.11%) PostHog
11 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) Git
1 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.42%) GitLab
3 5 (5.26%) git-flow
4 3 (3.16%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.16%) webpack
5 2 (2.11%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.11%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.11%) JIRA
5 2 (2.11%) Mocha
5 2 (2.11%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.05%) Gradle
6 1 (1.05%) JUnit
6 1 (1.05%) Maven
6 1 (1.05%) mountebank
6 1 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.05%) Postman
6 1 (1.05%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.05%) Subversion
6 1 (1.05%) TestNG
General
1 33 (34.74%) Finance
2 27 (28.42%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.84%) Financial Institution
4 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.21%) Retail
5 3 (3.16%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.16%) Banking
5 3 (3.16%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.11%) Electronics
6 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.11%) Marketing
6 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.05%) Advertising
7 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Front Office
7 1 (1.05%) Games
7 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (37.89%) Developer
2 30 (31.58%) Senior
3 29 (30.53%) Software Engineer
4 19 (20.00%) Lead
4 19 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 17 (17.89%) Java Engineer
6 16 (16.84%) Java Software Engineer
7 13 (13.68%) Kafka Engineer
8 10 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (8.42%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (7.37%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (6.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (5.26%) .NET Developer
12 5 (5.26%) Backend Developer
12 5 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
12 5 (5.26%) PHP Developer
12 5 (5.26%) Senior Backend Developer
13 4 (4.21%) C# Developer
13 4 (4.21%) Senior .NET Developer
13 4 (4.21%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (53.68%) Kafka
2 27 (28.42%) .NET
3 26 (27.37%) Spring
4 24 (25.26%) Spring Boot
5 22 (23.16%) React
6 20 (21.05%) Node.js
7 16 (16.84%) REST
7 16 (16.84%) RESTful
8 14 (14.74%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (14.74%) JMS
9 13 (13.68%) Akka
9 13 (13.68%) gRPC
9 13 (13.68%) RxJava
9 13 (13.68%) Spring WebFlux
10 10 (10.53%) AngularJS
10 10 (10.53%) CSS
11 9 (9.47%) HTML
11 9 (9.47%) Material-UI
12 8 (8.42%) GraphQL
13 6 (6.32%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.16%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.68%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (12.63%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.16%) Blockchain
5 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.16%) Web3
6 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.05%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.63%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) CentOS
2 3 (3.16%) Debian
2 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.16%) Windows
3 2 (2.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (62.11%) Microservices
2 52 (54.74%) CI/CD
3 46 (48.42%) Agile
4 43 (45.26%) DevOps
5 42 (44.21%) Software Engineering
6 27 (28.42%) Event-Driven
6 27 (28.42%) Mentoring
7 23 (24.21%) TDD
8 21 (22.11%) Containerisation
8 21 (22.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 21 (22.11%) Fintech
9 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (16.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (16.84%) High Availability
10 16 (16.84%) Observability
11 15 (15.79%) Concurrent Programming
12 14 (14.74%) BDD
12 14 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.68%) AI
13 13 (13.68%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.89%) Java
2 29 (30.53%) SQL
3 26 (27.37%) C#
4 25 (26.32%) Python
5 20 (21.05%) JavaScript
6 17 (17.89%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.42%) Go
8 7 (7.37%) PHP
9 3 (3.16%) Scala
9 3 (3.16%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.05%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.05%) Bicep
11 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.37%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.16%) Degree
5 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.89%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) GDPR
2 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.11%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (54.74%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.11%) vSphere
3 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (58.95%) Kubernetes
2 18 (18.95%) Terraform
3 13 (13.68%) Grafana
3 13 (13.68%) Prometheus
4 11 (11.58%) Ansible
5 6 (6.32%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.26%) Puppet
7 3 (3.16%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.05%) Kibana
8 1 (1.05%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (14.74%) Google
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.16%) SaltStack
3 3 (3.16%) Solace
4 2 (2.11%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.11%) SAP
4 2 (2.11%) VMware
5 1 (1.05%) Adobe
5 1 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle
5 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.05%) Splunk