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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 92 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 12 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.55% 0.39% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.47% 1.37% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £505 - -
25th Percentile £538 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% - -
75th Percentile £563 £688 -
90th Percentile £588 - -
England median daily rate £550 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +8.64% -15.63% +4.35%

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 485 365 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.15% 28.69% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 201 152
10th Percentile £193 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £563
90th Percentile £622 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 43 43
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.30 £14.29
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.28 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +30.55% -25.91%
75th Percentile £53.19 £44.97 £21.37
90th Percentile £62.88 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 10 August 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
Hertfordshire - 8 £550 - 3
Cambridgeshire +8 2 £510 -24.44% 1
Bedfordshire +3 2 £575 -
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 2 (16.67%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (8.33%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) Serverless
3 7 (58.33%) Azure AKS
4 6 (50.00%) Azure Functions
5 4 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (25.00%) Power Automate
6 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
7 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (8.33%) AWS
8 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (8.33%) Datadog
8 1 (8.33%) GitHub
8 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (8.33%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) InfluxDB
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (8.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 2 (16.67%) BYOD
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Event-Driven
2 7 (58.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (41.67%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (25.00%) AI
6 3 (25.00%) Analytics
6 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) Observability
6 3 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (16.67%) Change Management
7 2 (16.67%) Cutover Planning
7 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
7 2 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) ITIL
7 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) X++
5 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Genesys
3 1 (8.33%) New Relic
3 1 (8.33%) Workday