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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	507	417	350
Rank change year-on-year	-90	-67	+59
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus	144	95	188
As % of all contract jobs in England	0.31%	0.34%	0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category	0.89%	0.87%	1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted	117	56	113
10^th Percentile	£418	£361	£430
25^th Percentile	£463	£410	£500
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£517	£600
Median % change year-on-year	+6.38%	-13.83%	-
75^th Percentile	£613	£638	£675
90^th Percentile	£660	£700	£701
UK median daily rate	£525	£513	£600
% change year-on-year	+2.44%	-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 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	16,172	10,900	11,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	34.54%	38.64%	35.25%
Number of daily rates quoted	10,776	7,365	7,541
10^th Percentile	£321	£304	£313
25^th Percentile	£425	£406	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£503	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+4.48%	-4.29%	-2.78%
75^th Percentile	£630	£625	£638
90^th Percentile	£725	£725	£750
UK median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	588	267	160
10^th Percentile	£15.50	£14.99	£16.00
25^th Percentile	£17.75	£18.51	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+8.36%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£42.60	£68.75
90^th Percentile	£79.30	£67.10	£70.00
UK median hourly rate	£31.25	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+24.25%	-28.14%	+7.99%

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 16 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 16 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	-49	100	£550	+5.11%	78
South East	-50	13	£460	-24.90%	23
East of England	-22	10	£550	-24.14%	6
Midlands	-51	7	£500	-2.44%	12
South West	-34	6	£500	+33.33%	5
North of England	-65	6	£525	+16.67%	22
North West	-46	5	£575	+27.78%	9
East Midlands	-8	4	£500	-12.09%	1
West Midlands	-47	2	£625	+24.07%	11
Yorkshire	-34	1	£475	-	10
Azure Service Bus UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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%	144
2	Microsoft	60.4%	87
3	DevOps	57.6%	83
4	CI/CD	54.9%	79
5	.NET	53.5%	77
6	Serverless	49.3%	71
7	C#	46.5%	67
8	Azure Functions	45.1%	65
9	Azure Logic Apps	41.7%	60
10	Event-Driven	40.3%	58
11	Azure DevOps	39.6%	57
11	REST	39.6%	57
13	Agile	38.9%	56
14	API Management	36.1%	52
15	Dynamics 365	34.0%	49
16	Power Platform	33.3%	48
17	Security Cleared	31.3%	45
18	Event-Driven Architecture	30.6%	44
19	SC Cleared	28.5%	41
20	Microservices	25.0%	36
20	SQL	25.0%	36
22	Integration Patterns	22.9%	33
23	PowerApps	20.8%	30
24	JavaScript	20.1%	29
25	Entra ID	19.4%	28
25	Infrastructure as Code	19.4%	28
25	Power Automate	19.4%	28
28	Azure Event Grid	18.8%	27
28	OAuth	18.8%	27
28	Python	18.8%	27

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%	144
2	Serverless	49.3%	71
3	Azure Functions	45.1%	65
4	Azure Logic Apps	41.7%	60
5	Azure DevOps	39.6%	57
6	Dynamics 365	34.0%	49
7	Power Platform	33.3%	48
8	PowerApps	20.8%	30
9	Entra ID	19.4%	28
9	Power Automate	19.4%	28
11	Azure Event Grid	18.8%	27
12	GitHub	17.4%	25
13	Azure API Management	16.7%	24
14	AWS	15.3%	22
15	Azure Monitor	13.9%	20
16	Azure AKS	13.2%	19
16	Azure Key Vault	13.2%	19
18	Microsoft Copilot	12.5%	18
19	Copilot Studio	11.1%	16
20	Azure Cosmos DB	9.0%	13