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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 79 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 13 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.58% 0.31% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.81% 0.95% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £505 - -
25th Percentile - £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% - -
75th Percentile £597 £688 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £525 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -5.23% -7.67% -

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 462 316 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.66% 32.58% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 186 162
10th Percentile £194 £208 £221
25th Percentile £400 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £501 £451
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +11.08% +0.28%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £573
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 60
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.61 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.72 £18.31 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% +12.33% -25.91%
75th Percentile £55.25 £22.40 £21.37
90th Percentile £72.00 £36.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +58.00% +16.99% -38.94%

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 1 June 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 - 1
Hertfordshire - 5 £550 - 2
Cambridgeshire +3 2 £510 -24.44%
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 (15.38%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (7.69%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) Azure AKS
3 6 (46.15%) Serverless
4 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Azure Functions
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
6 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
6 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (7.69%) AWS
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
7 1 (7.69%) Datadog
7 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) InfluxDB
2 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (7.69%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
1 4 (30.77%) Technical Leader
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
3 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) Kafka
4 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (7.69%) JSON
5 1 (7.69%) Middleware
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) AI Agents
2 2 (15.38%) BYOD
2 2 (15.38%) Low-Code
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Event-Driven
2 11 (84.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Microservices
4 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
5 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
5 6 (46.15%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
6 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
6 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (30.77%) AI
8 3 (23.08%) Analytics
8 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Programming
9 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
9 2 (15.38%) Data Science
9 2 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) C#
3 4 (30.77%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
2 5 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) New Relic
3 1 (7.69%) Workday