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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 84 106
Rank change year-on-year -13 +22 +24
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.25% 0.089% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 0.37% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.06%
England median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -

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 342 268 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.36% 23.78% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 157 208
10th Percentile £213 £213 £180
25th Percentile £356 £306 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £550
90th Percentile £700 £680 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 29
10th Percentile £6.00 £20.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.00 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.03 £21.46 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +19.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £64.63 £77.50
England median hourly rate £27.21 £28.75 £23.61
% change year-on-year -5.36% +21.77% +4.86%

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 30 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire - 3 - - 4
Cambridgeshire -6 1 £725 - 6
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Solutions Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media