Azure Service Bus Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Service Bus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	503	424	353
Rank change year-on-year	-79	-71	+43
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus	146	94	177
As % of all contract jobs in England	0.31%	0.33%	0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category	0.91%	0.86%	1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted	118	55	106
10^th Percentile	£418	£361	£434
25^th Percentile	£463	£408	£503
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£513	£600
Median % change year-on-year	+7.32%	-14.62%	+0.04%
75^th Percentile	£614	£638	£675
90^th Percentile	£675	£700	£701
UK median daily rate	£545	£513	£600
% change year-on-year	+6.34%	-14.58%	-

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	16,082	10,869	11,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	34.62%	38.63%	35.35%
Number of daily rates quoted	10,719	7,330	7,489
10^th Percentile	£320	£303	£313
25^th Percentile	£425	£406	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£530
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-5.66%	-1.40%
75^th Percentile	£633	£625	£643
90^th Percentile	£725	£725	£749
UK median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	586	269	159
10^th Percentile	£15.50	£15.20	£16.24
25^th Percentile	£17.97	£18.51	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+17.77%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£43.75	£68.75
90^th Percentile	£79.50	£67.05	£70.00
UK median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+8.36%

Azure Service Bus Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Service Bus Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Azure Service Bus Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus in England over the 6 months to 19 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in England

Azure Service Bus Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
London	-56	101	£550	+5.47%	84
South East	-50	13	£460	-24.90%	24
East of England	-22	9	£550	-24.14%	6
Midlands	-41	8	£500	-2.44%	12
South West	-31	6	£500	+33.33%	5
North of England	-71	6	£525	+16.67%	24
North West	-52	5	£575	+27.78%	10
East Midlands	-14	4	£500	-12.09%	1
West Midlands	-51	3	£625	+24.07%	11
Yorkshire	-35	1	£475	-	10
Azure Service Bus UK

Azure Service Bus Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Azure Service Bus also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region with a requirement for Azure Service Bus.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	146
2	Microsoft	61.0%	89
3	DevOps	58.2%	85
4	CI/CD	54.8%	80
5	.NET	54.1%	79
6	Serverless	47.9%	70
7	C#	47.3%	69
8	Azure Functions	43.8%	64
9	Azure Logic Apps	42.5%	62
10	Azure DevOps	40.4%	59
10	REST	40.4%	59
12	Event-Driven	39.7%	58
13	Agile	39.0%	57
14	API Management	37.0%	54
15	Dynamics 365	34.9%	51
16	Power Platform	33.6%	49
17	Security Cleared	31.5%	46
18	Event-Driven Architecture	30.1%	44
19	SC Cleared	28.8%	42
20	SQL	25.3%	37
21	Microservices	24.7%	36
22	Integration Patterns	23.3%	34
23	Infrastructure as Code	20.5%	30
23	JavaScript	20.5%	30
23	PowerApps	20.5%	30
26	Power Automate	19.9%	29
27	Azure Event Grid	19.2%	28
27	Entra ID	19.2%	28
27	OAuth	19.2%	28
30	Bicep	17.8%	26

Azure Service Bus Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	146
2	Serverless	47.9%	70
3	Azure Functions	43.8%	64
4	Azure Logic Apps	42.5%	62
5	Azure DevOps	40.4%	59
6	Dynamics 365	34.9%	51
7	Power Platform	33.6%	49
8	PowerApps	20.5%	30
9	Power Automate	19.9%	29
10	Azure Event Grid	19.2%	28
10	Entra ID	19.2%	28
12	GitHub	17.1%	25
13	Azure API Management	16.4%	24
14	AWS	15.1%	22
15	Azure Key Vault	14.4%	21
15	Azure Monitor	14.4%	21
17	Azure AKS	12.3%	18
17	Microsoft Copilot	12.3%	18
19	Copilot Studio	11.0%	16
20	Azure Cosmos DB	8.9%	13