Azure Service Bus Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure Service Bus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 82 109
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 11 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.49% 0.31% 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 1.02% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile £550 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +22.73% +69.23%
75th Percentile £600 £688 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure Service Bus falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 437 294 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.63% 30.03% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 181 155
10th Percentile £197 £205 £211
25th Percentile £389 £413 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 35 65
10th Percentile £14.13 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.67 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.36 £17.80 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% +9.20% -20.10%
75th Percentile £54.69 £22.24 £21.37
90th Percentile £60.00 £31.64 £53.45
England median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Service Bus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure Service Bus job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure Service Bus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Service Bus within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire - 6 £600 -
Hertfordshire - 4 £550 - 1
Cambridgeshire +6 1 - - 2
Azure Service Bus
England

Azure Service Bus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (9.09%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) Azure AKS
3 5 (45.45%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Functions
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (9.09%) AWS
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
6 1 (9.09%) Datadog
6 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
6 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) InfluxDB
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (9.09%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
1 4 (36.36%) Technical Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Spring
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) Kafka
3 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) BYOD
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Event-Driven
2 9 (81.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 7 (63.64%) Microservices
4 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (45.45%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (27.27%) AI
6 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (18.18%) Analytics
7 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Programming
7 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (9.09%) Application Security
8 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 5 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) New Relic
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Workday