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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 396 376
Rank change year-on-year -22 -20 +97
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 137 91 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.35% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 0.93% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 53 125
10th Percentile £390 £480 £425
25th Percentile £415 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £575 £675 £688
90th Percentile £653 £855 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -18.70% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £48.00 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile £67.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.00 - -

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,602 9,804 12,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.72% 37.31% 33.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,724 6,501 9,106
10th Percentile £304 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 144 302
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.36
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £58.75 £46.51 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.75 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%

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 job vacancy trend in England

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in England

Azure Service Bus
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Service Bus in England over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Hourly 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 5 February 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 +10 98 £490 -22.57% 18
Midlands -44 13 £450 -4.76% 13
South East -48 11 £575 -7.63% 10
East Midlands -18 7 £450 -4.76% 5
West Midlands - 6 £443 - 8
North of England - 5 £500 - 14
North West - 5 £500 - 12
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
East of England -21 1 £725 - 1
South West - 1 - - 2
Azure Service Bus
UK

Azure Service Bus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (16.79%) SharePoint
2 10 (7.30%) HCL Notes
3 9 (6.57%) Mendix
4 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.19%) ArcGIS
5 3 (2.19%) Confluence
6 2 (1.46%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.19%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.19%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.46%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.73%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.73%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) Azure
2 76 (55.47%) Azure Logic Apps
3 64 (46.72%) Serverless
4 61 (44.53%) Azure Functions
5 56 (40.88%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (28.47%) Azure Monitor
6 39 (28.47%) Dynamics 365
7 36 (26.28%) Power Platform
8 35 (25.55%) Power Automate
9 31 (22.63%) GitHub
10 28 (20.44%) Azure Key Vault
10 28 (20.44%) Entra ID
11 27 (19.71%) Azure Event Grid
12 26 (18.98%) PowerApps
13 25 (18.25%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (16.06%) Azure API Management
14 22 (16.06%) PaaS
15 20 (14.60%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (12.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 12 (8.76%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.38%) Firewall
1 6 (4.38%) SMS
2 5 (3.65%) Network Security
3 4 (2.92%) HTTP
4 2 (1.46%) LAN
4 2 (1.46%) MPLS
4 2 (1.46%) VPN
4 2 (1.46%) WAN
5 1 (0.73%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (12.41%) Power BI
3 16 (11.68%) SQL Server
4 10 (7.30%) Oracle Database
5 5 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.19%) Metadata
7 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.46%) Redis
9 1 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.73%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Git
2 8 (5.84%) Postman
3 5 (3.65%) Selenium
4 4 (2.92%) JIRA
5 2 (1.46%) git-flow
5 2 (1.46%) GitLab
5 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.46%) JMeter
5 2 (1.46%) Locust
5 2 (1.46%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.73%) Mocha
6 1 (0.73%) TestRail
General
1 31 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.98%) Finance
3 25 (18.25%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.57%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (6.57%) Financial Institution
5 8 (5.84%) Marketing
6 6 (4.38%) Banking
7 5 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.19%) Aviation
8 3 (2.19%) Law
9 2 (1.46%) Billing
9 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Legal
10 1 (0.73%) Electronics
10 1 (0.73%) Front Office
10 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.73%) Retail
10 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (50.36%) Developer
2 22 (16.06%) Architect
2 22 (16.06%) Azure Developer
3 20 (14.60%) Senior
4 13 (9.49%) Senior Developer
5 12 (8.76%) Lead
5 12 (8.76%) Power Platform Developer
6 11 (8.03%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 10 (7.30%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (7.30%) Consultant
7 10 (7.30%) Integration Developer
8 9 (6.57%) .NET Developer
8 9 (6.57%) Azure Architect
8 9 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.84%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 7 (5.11%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Technical Consultant
11 5 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 5 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (46.72%) .NET
2 32 (23.36%) REST
3 23 (16.79%) React
4 20 (14.60%) .NET Core
5 17 (12.41%) Node.js
6 15 (10.95%) RESTful
6 15 (10.95%) SOAP
7 13 (9.49%) AngularJS
7 13 (9.49%) HTML5 Canvas
7 13 (9.49%) Kafka
8 12 (8.76%) .NET Framework
9 10 (7.30%) JSON
10 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (6.57%) OAuth
11 8 (5.84%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (5.84%) PyTorch
11 8 (5.84%) TensorFlow
12 6 (4.38%) Next.js
12 6 (4.38%) Swagger
13 5 (3.65%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.49%) Low-Code
3 11 (8.03%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.57%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.84%) AI Agents
5 8 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.65%) Data Fabric
6 5 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.65%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.73%) Derivative
8 1 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.73%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.73%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.73%) IVR
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.73%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (66.42%) DevOps
2 77 (56.20%) CI/CD
3 41 (29.93%) API Management
4 35 (25.55%) Analytics
5 30 (21.90%) Event-Driven
6 27 (19.71%) Agile
6 27 (19.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 25 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (17.52%) Log Analytics
9 23 (16.79%) Microservices
10 21 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (15.33%) RBAC
10 21 (15.33%) Test Automation
11 20 (14.60%) Observability
12 17 (12.41%) Data Management
12 17 (12.41%) Integration Patterns
13 16 (11.68%) Containerisation
13 16 (11.68%) Data Modelling
14 15 (10.95%) AI
15 14 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 82 (59.85%) C#
2 51 (37.23%) SQL
3 36 (26.28%) JavaScript
4 25 (18.25%) Bicep
5 20 (14.60%) PowerShell
6 18 (13.14%) Python
7 17 (12.41%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.30%) Formula Language
8 10 (7.30%) LotusScript
9 6 (4.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.92%) X++
11 3 (2.19%) Java
11 3 (2.19%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.73%) Korn
Qualifications
1 36 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.65%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.65%) Degree
4 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.46%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (1.46%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.95%) GDPR
2 7 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.92%) QA
4 3 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.19%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.46%) FedRAMP
5 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.73%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.73%) MiFID
6 1 (0.73%) NCSC
6 1 (0.73%) PMO
6 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (11.68%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.03%) Docker
3 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (25.55%) Terraform
2 11 (8.03%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.92%) Ansible
5 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.73%) Grafana
Vendors
1 73 (53.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.22%) Databricks
3 13 (9.49%) OpenAI
4 12 (8.76%) Oracle
5 10 (7.30%) Lotus
6 9 (6.57%) Kofax
7 8 (5.84%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.19%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.19%) Informatica
8 3 (2.19%) Talend
9 2 (1.46%) SAP
10 1 (0.73%) Aderant
10 1 (0.73%) Charles River
10 1 (0.73%) Foundry
10 1 (0.73%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.73%) IBM
10 1 (0.73%) Portware
10 1 (0.73%) Solace
10 1 (0.73%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.73%) Workday