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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 389 353
Rank change year-on-year -40 -36 +54
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 151 78 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.33% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 0.87% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 50 114
10th Percentile £410 £457 £411
25th Percentile £453 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £650
90th Percentile £682 £689 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £552 £550
% change year-on-year -9.42% +0.36% -6.78%

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 14,456 8,952 11,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.33% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,880 6,189 8,457
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 198 324
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £41.78 £26.45 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +57.96% +23.77% -34.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £38.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.63 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.60 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.37% +33.83% -38.94%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -10 100 £525 -6.25% 35
East of England -18 13 £550 -18.52% 3
North of England -59 12 £525 +16.67% 10
South East -57 11 £575 -8.00% 18
Midlands -63 9 £500 -2.44% 7
North West -38 6 £575 +27.78% 7
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 3
West Midlands -54 5 £460 -8.68% 5
East Midlands -21 4 £500 -13.04% 2
South West -27 2 £450 +20.00% 1
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 25 (16.56%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.62%) HCL Notes
2 10 (6.62%) Mendix
3 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.32%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (7.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.32%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.66%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 151 (100.00%) Azure
2 72 (47.68%) Serverless
3 66 (43.71%) Azure Logic Apps
4 62 (41.06%) Azure Functions
5 60 (39.74%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (29.80%) Dynamics 365
7 40 (26.49%) Power Platform
8 38 (25.17%) Power Automate
9 30 (19.87%) Azure Event Grid
9 30 (19.87%) Entra ID
10 28 (18.54%) Azure Monitor
10 28 (18.54%) PowerApps
11 27 (17.88%) Azure AKS
12 25 (16.56%) Microsoft 365
13 22 (14.57%) Azure Key Vault
13 22 (14.57%) GitHub
14 20 (13.25%) Azure API Management
15 19 (12.58%) PaaS
16 15 (9.93%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (7.95%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.64%) SMS
2 2 (1.32%) Firewall
2 2 (1.32%) HTTP
2 2 (1.32%) Network Security
3 1 (0.66%) DKIM
3 1 (0.66%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.93%) Power BI
2 14 (9.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (6.62%) Oracle Database
3 10 (6.62%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.65%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.66%) Metadata
8 1 (0.66%) Redis
8 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.66%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (8.61%) Git
2 4 (2.65%) Selenium
3 3 (1.99%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) JIRA
4 2 (1.32%) NUnit
4 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.66%) GitLab
5 1 (0.66%) Moq
5 1 (0.66%) Postman
5 1 (0.66%) Serilog
5 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (25.17%) Finance
2 26 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.56%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.28%) Financial Institution
5 7 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.97%) Marketing
7 4 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.65%) Banking
8 2 (1.32%) Aviation
8 2 (1.32%) Law
8 2 (1.32%) Legal
8 2 (1.32%) Retail
9 1 (0.66%) Automotive
9 1 (0.66%) Billing
9 1 (0.66%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.66%) Local Government
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 66 (43.71%) Developer
2 29 (19.21%) Architect
3 24 (15.89%) Azure Developer
3 24 (15.89%) Senior
4 18 (11.92%) .NET Developer
5 16 (10.60%) Senior Developer
6 15 (9.93%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) Lead
8 10 (6.62%) Consultant
8 10 (6.62%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (6.62%) Power Platform Developer
9 8 (5.30%) Azure Architect
9 8 (5.30%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 8 (5.30%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 7 (4.64%) Integration Architect
10 7 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.64%) Technical Consultant
11 6 (3.97%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 6 (3.97%) Platform Architect
11 6 (3.97%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (49.01%) .NET
2 35 (23.18%) REST
3 25 (16.56%) React
4 17 (11.26%) Kafka
5 16 (10.60%) RESTful
6 15 (9.93%) .NET Framework
7 14 (9.27%) .NET Core
8 13 (8.61%) OAuth
8 13 (8.61%) SOAP
9 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (7.28%) OAuth2
9 11 (7.28%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (7.28%) Web Services
10 10 (6.62%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (5.96%) AngularJS
11 9 (5.96%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (5.96%) JSON
12 8 (5.30%) Middleware
12 8 (5.30%) OpenID
13 7 (4.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.88%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.27%) Low-Code
3 10 (6.62%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.62%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.65%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.65%) IoT
5 4 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.32%) BYOD
6 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.32%) Wiki
7 1 (0.66%) CMDB
7 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
7 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.66%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.66%) State Machine
7 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (64.24%) DevOps
2 78 (51.66%) CI/CD
3 51 (33.77%) Event-Driven
4 43 (28.48%) API Management
5 36 (23.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 35 (23.18%) Microservices
7 30 (19.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (18.54%) Integration Patterns
9 26 (17.22%) Data Modelling
10 23 (15.23%) Analytics
11 21 (13.91%) Observability
12 19 (12.58%) Migration
12 19 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (12.58%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (11.92%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (11.92%) Containerisation
13 18 (11.92%) Mentoring
14 17 (11.26%) Agile
14 17 (11.26%) API Integration
15 16 (10.60%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 89 (58.94%) C#
2 43 (28.48%) SQL
3 32 (21.19%) JavaScript
4 21 (13.91%) PowerShell
5 18 (11.92%) Bicep
5 18 (11.92%) Python
6 14 (9.27%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.95%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (6.62%) Formula Language
8 10 (6.62%) Java
8 10 (6.62%) LotusScript
9 5 (3.31%) X++
10 1 (0.66%) Korn
10 1 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (24.50%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.61%) Degree
4 10 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.30%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.30%) GDPR
2 7 (4.64%) QA
3 5 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.32%) FedRAMP
4 2 (1.32%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.32%) SLA
5 1 (0.66%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (15.89%) Docker
2 12 (7.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (19.21%) Terraform
2 25 (16.56%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.31%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.65%) Grafana
4 4 (2.65%) Istio
4 4 (2.65%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.65%) linkerd
5 2 (1.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 73 (48.34%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.61%) Oracle
3 10 (6.62%) Kofax
3 10 (6.62%) Lotus
4 6 (3.97%) Databricks
5 5 (3.31%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.65%) SAP
6 4 (2.65%) Workday
7 2 (1.32%) Foundry
7 2 (1.32%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.66%) Aderant
8 1 (0.66%) Adobe
8 1 (0.66%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.66%) Concur
8 1 (0.66%) IBM
8 1 (0.66%) iManage
8 1 (0.66%) New Relic
8 1 (0.66%) Planview
8 1 (0.66%) SnapLogic