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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 379 390
Rank change year-on-year -48 +11 +102
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 110 133 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.19% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 76 137
10th Percentile £359 £506 £417
25th Percentile £413 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +9.09%
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 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 11,731 11,147 13,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.40% 36.15% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,018 7,425 9,977
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 150 269
10th Percentile £15.48 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.00 £25.45
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% +25.74% +13.11%
75th Percentile £51.38 £57.44 £58.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £70.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -13.33% +13.21% +20.45%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 0 74 £500 -23.08% 18
Midlands -16 14 £436 -10.10% 6
East Midlands -9 9 £450 +21.62% 2
North West -15 7 £500 -20.00% 3
North of England -41 7 £500 -20.00% 4
West Midlands -16 5 £425 -29.17% 4
East of England - 5 £725 - 2
South East -41 3 £616 +1.02% 9
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West +8 1 - - 3
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 9 (8.18%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.73%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.82%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.91%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.91%) Confluence
5 1 (0.91%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Aladdin
1 5 (4.55%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (3.64%) Fidessa
2 4 (3.64%) thinkFolio
3 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 106 (96.36%) Azure
2 65 (59.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 50 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (37.27%) Azure Monitor
5 39 (35.45%) Serverless
6 34 (30.91%) Azure Functions
7 27 (24.55%) Azure Key Vault
8 24 (21.82%) Azure API Management
8 24 (21.82%) GitHub
9 22 (20.00%) Power Platform
10 20 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 20 (18.18%) Entra ID
10 20 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (17.27%) Azure Event Grid
11 19 (17.27%) PowerApps
12 17 (15.45%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (14.55%) PaaS
14 15 (13.64%) Power Automate
15 11 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (9.09%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.09%) Network Security
2 6 (5.45%) Firewall
3 5 (4.55%) HTTP
4 2 (1.82%) LAN
4 2 (1.82%) MPLS
4 2 (1.82%) VPN
4 2 (1.82%) WAN
5 1 (0.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (16.36%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.36%) Power BI
4 4 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.73%) Metadata
5 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.82%) Redis
7 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.91%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Git
2 8 (7.27%) Postman
3 2 (1.82%) git-flow
3 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.82%) JIRA
3 2 (1.82%) JMeter
3 2 (1.82%) Locust
3 2 (1.82%) Selenium
3 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.91%) GitLab
4 1 (0.91%) Mocha
4 1 (0.91%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.91%) TestRail
General
1 31 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.27%) Finance
3 17 (15.45%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.18%) Banking
5 8 (7.27%) Law
6 6 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Billing
8 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Front Office
9 2 (1.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.91%) Aviation
10 1 (0.91%) Electronics
10 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Legal
10 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (53.64%) Developer
2 20 (18.18%) Architect
3 16 (14.55%) Senior
4 13 (11.82%) Azure Developer
4 13 (11.82%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (10.91%) Integration Developer
6 10 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 10 (9.09%) Lead
6 10 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.36%) .NET Developer
8 5 (4.55%) Azure Architect
8 5 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.64%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Oracle Architect
9 4 (3.64%) Oracle Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.64%) Power Apps Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (44.55%) .NET
2 26 (23.64%) REST
3 24 (21.82%) .NET Core
4 20 (18.18%) SOAP
5 16 (14.55%) React
6 15 (13.64%) Node.js
7 13 (11.82%) .NET Framework
8 12 (10.91%) AngularJS
9 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (10.00%) RESTful
10 10 (9.09%) JSON
11 9 (8.18%) OAuth
11 9 (8.18%) YAML
12 8 (7.27%) ARM Templates
12 8 (7.27%) HTML5 Canvas
12 8 (7.27%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (6.36%) Kafka
13 7 (6.36%) PyTorch
13 7 (6.36%) TensorFlow
14 6 (5.45%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (7.27%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.36%) AI Agents
6 6 (5.45%) Data Fabric
6 6 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (5.45%) Low-Code
7 5 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.55%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.64%) Derivative
8 4 (3.64%) Fixed Income
9 3 (2.73%) Hedge funds
9 3 (2.73%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (67.27%) DevOps
2 63 (57.27%) CI/CD
3 39 (35.45%) Analytics
4 38 (34.55%) API Management
5 37 (33.64%) Agile
6 31 (28.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (28.18%) Log Analytics
7 25 (22.73%) Event-Driven
8 24 (21.82%) Microservices
9 22 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 16 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.64%) Containerisation
12 13 (11.82%) DevSecOps
12 13 (11.82%) Observability
12 13 (11.82%) RBAC
12 13 (11.82%) Scrum
12 13 (11.82%) Test Automation
13 12 (10.91%) AI
14 11 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 58 (52.73%) C#
2 42 (38.18%) SQL
3 30 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 26 (23.64%) Python
5 24 (21.82%) Bicep
6 17 (15.45%) PowerShell
7 12 (10.91%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.36%) Java
9 6 (5.45%) Bash
10 5 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (4.55%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.55%) X++
11 2 (1.82%) Formula Language
11 2 (1.82%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.82%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) Degree
4 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) GDPR
2 4 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.64%) MiFID
3 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.91%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.91%) NCSC
3 1 (0.91%) QA
3 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.09%) Docker
3 6 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (28.18%) Terraform
2 8 (7.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.64%) Ansible
5 1 (0.91%) Grafana
5 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (48.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) Databricks
3 9 (8.18%) OpenAI
3 9 (8.18%) Oracle
4 8 (7.27%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.64%) Portware
6 3 (2.73%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.73%) Informatica
6 3 (2.73%) Talend
7 2 (1.82%) Lotus
7 2 (1.82%) SAP
8 1 (0.91%) Charles River
8 1 (0.91%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.91%) iManage
8 1 (0.91%) Kofax
8 1 (0.91%) Solace
8 1 (0.91%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.91%) Workday