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 citing Azure Service Bus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	497	433	356
Rank change year-on-year	-64	-77	+54
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus	145	103	160
As % of all contract jobs in England	0.31%	0.35%	0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category	0.90%	0.91%	1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted	118	60	93
10^th Percentile	£418	£362	£479
25^th Percentile	£458	£410	£525
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£532	£517	£615
Median % change year-on-year	+2.80%	-15.93%	+2.50%
75^th Percentile	£613	£623	£675
90^th Percentile	£679	£703	£700
UK median daily rate	£525	£517	£601
% change year-on-year	+1.55%	-13.91%	+0.08%

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 citing cloud computing skills in England.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	16,106	11,372	11,099
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England	34.90%	38.99%	35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted	10,758	7,686	7,377
10^th Percentile	£325	£300	£313
25^th Percentile	£425	£405	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£534
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-6.37%	+0.28%
75^th Percentile	£638	£619	£645
90^th Percentile	£725	£720	£738
UK median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	605	288	145
10^th Percentile	£15.50	£14.75	£18.30
25^th Percentile	£18.50	£18.87	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£36.00
Median % change year-on-year	+29.22%	-30.14%	+30.91%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£44.43	£64.73
90^th Percentile	£79.00	£71.62	£70.00
UK median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+9.38%

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 31 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 31 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
London	-50	101	£550	+5.47%	20
South East	-48	13	£460	-16.93%	9
East of England	-18	9	£538	-25.86%	5
Midlands	-48	9	£500	-2.44%	4
East Midlands	-5	5	£500	-12.09%	1
South West	-26	5	£500	+33.33%	2
North of England	-75	5	£550	+22.22%	11
North West	-40	4	£625	+38.89%	5
West Midlands	-39	3	£625	+24.07%	3
Yorkshire	-45	1	£475	-	4
Azure Service Bus UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 citing Azure Service Bus.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	145
2	DevOps	60.0%	87
3	Microsoft	57.9%	84
4	CI/CD	55.2%	80
5	.NET	53.1%	77
6	Serverless	46.2%	67
7	Azure Functions	44.8%	65
7	C#	44.8%	65
9	Azure Logic Apps	42.8%	62
9	REST	42.8%	62
11	Agile	42.1%	61
12	Azure DevOps	40.7%	59
13	Event-Driven	38.6%	56
14	API Management	35.9%	52
14	Dynamics 365	35.9%	52
16	Power Platform	35.2%	51
17	Security Cleared	33.1%	48
18	Event-Driven Architecture	31.7%	46
19	SC Cleared	29.7%	43
20	Microservices	24.8%	36
21	Integration Patterns	22.1%	32
21	SQL	22.1%	32
23	Power Automate	21.4%	31
24	Infrastructure as Code	20.7%	30
24	PowerApps	20.7%	30
26	GitHub	19.3%	28
26	JavaScript	19.3%	28
28	Bicep	18.6%	27
28	OAuth	18.6%	27
30	Azure Event Grid	17.9%	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%	145
2	Serverless	46.2%	67
3	Azure Functions	44.8%	65
4	Azure Logic Apps	42.8%	62
5	Azure DevOps	40.7%	59
6	Dynamics 365	35.9%	52
7	Power Platform	35.2%	51
8	Power Automate	21.4%	31
9	PowerApps	20.7%	30
10	GitHub	19.3%	28
11	Azure Event Grid	17.9%	26
12	Entra ID	17.2%	25
13	Azure API Management	15.9%	23
13	Azure Monitor	15.9%	23
15	AWS	14.5%	21
15	Azure Key Vault	14.5%	21
17	Microsoft Copilot	13.8%	20
18	Copilot Studio	12.4%	18
19	Azure AKS	11.0%	16
20	Azure Cosmos DB	10.3%	15