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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 401 376
Rank change year-on-year -23 -25 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 159 72 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.30% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 0.80% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 49 110
10th Percentile £405 £457 £407
25th Percentile £449 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £685 £690 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £557 £550
% change year-on-year -10.23% +1.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £29.25 -
% change year-on-year +132.48% - -

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 14,383 9,035 11,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.29% 37.18% 31.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,880 6,303 8,471
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 195 321
10th Percentile £15.96 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.21 £17.96 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.50 £26.45 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.02% +25.95% -34.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £40.99 £33.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.78% +28.69% -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 9 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 9 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 -11 104 £525 -7.49% 40
Midlands -50 14 £461 -10.00% 3
North of England -50 13 £525 +16.67% 7
South East -66 11 £643 +2.88% 16
East of England -31 10 £563 -16.67% 5
East Midlands -26 7 £500 -13.04% 1
North West -29 7 £550 +22.22% 4
West Midlands -53 7 £460 -8.68% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 2
South West -32 3 £450 +20.00% 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 28 (17.61%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.29%) HCL Notes
2 10 (6.29%) Mendix
2 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.89%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (8.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.63%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (46.54%) Serverless
3 68 (42.77%) Azure Logic Apps
4 64 (40.25%) Azure DevOps
4 64 (40.25%) Azure Functions
5 43 (27.04%) Dynamics 365
6 38 (23.90%) Power Platform
7 37 (23.27%) Azure Monitor
8 36 (22.64%) Entra ID
8 36 (22.64%) Power Automate
9 32 (20.13%) Azure Event Grid
10 30 (18.87%) Azure AKS
10 30 (18.87%) Azure Key Vault
11 27 (16.98%) GitHub
11 27 (16.98%) Microsoft 365
12 26 (16.35%) PowerApps
13 25 (15.72%) Azure API Management
14 22 (13.84%) PaaS
15 20 (12.58%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (9.43%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.40%) SMS
2 5 (3.14%) Firewall
3 3 (1.89%) Network Security
4 1 (0.63%) DKIM
4 1 (0.63%) DMARC
4 1 (0.63%) HTTP
4 1 (0.63%) LAN
4 1 (0.63%) MPLS
4 1 (0.63%) VPN
4 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (9.43%) Power BI
3 11 (6.92%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.29%) Oracle Database
5 7 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.52%) Metadata
6 4 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.89%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.26%) Redis
8 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (8.18%) Git
2 4 (2.52%) Selenium
3 3 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.89%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.63%) Mocha
5 1 (0.63%) Moq
5 1 (0.63%) NUnit
5 1 (0.63%) Serilog
General
1 35 (22.01%) Finance
2 28 (17.61%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.98%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.92%) Financial Institution
5 7 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.77%) Marketing
7 4 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.52%) Banking
8 3 (1.89%) Aviation
8 3 (1.89%) Retail
9 2 (1.26%) Law
9 2 (1.26%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Billing
10 1 (0.63%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 72 (45.28%) Developer
2 31 (19.50%) Architect
3 28 (17.61%) Azure Developer
4 25 (15.72%) Senior
5 18 (11.32%) .NET Developer
6 16 (10.06%) Senior Developer
7 15 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (9.43%) Lead
8 10 (6.29%) Consultant
8 10 (6.29%) Power Platform Developer
9 9 (5.66%) Integration Engineer
9 9 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.03%) Azure Architect
10 8 (5.03%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 8 (5.03%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 7 (4.40%) Integration Architect
11 7 (4.40%) Senior .NET Developer
11 7 (4.40%) Technical Consultant
12 6 (3.77%) Platform Architect
12 6 (3.77%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (49.06%) .NET
2 36 (22.64%) REST
3 28 (17.61%) React
4 22 (13.84%) Kafka
5 17 (10.69%) .NET Core
5 17 (10.69%) .NET Framework
5 17 (10.69%) RESTful
6 15 (9.43%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (8.81%) Microsoft Graph
7 14 (8.81%) OAuth
8 13 (8.18%) SOAP
9 12 (7.55%) AngularJS
9 12 (7.55%) OAuth2
9 12 (7.55%) Web Services
10 11 (6.92%) HTML5 Canvas
10 11 (6.92%) Node.js
11 10 (6.29%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (5.03%) JSON
12 8 (5.03%) Middleware
12 8 (5.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.55%) Low-Code
3 10 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.14%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.52%) IoT
6 4 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.52%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.26%) Wiki
8 1 (0.63%) CMDB
8 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.63%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.63%) NHS
8 1 (0.63%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.63%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.63%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (65.41%) DevOps
2 85 (53.46%) CI/CD
3 51 (32.08%) Event-Driven
4 44 (27.67%) API Management
5 38 (23.90%) Microservices
6 36 (22.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 33 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (18.87%) Analytics
9 29 (18.24%) Integration Patterns
10 24 (15.09%) Observability
11 23 (14.47%) Data Modelling
12 22 (13.84%) Agile
12 22 (13.84%) Containerisation
13 20 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (12.58%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (11.32%) API Integration
15 18 (11.32%) Migration
16 17 (10.69%) CRM
16 17 (10.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (59.75%) C#
2 45 (28.30%) SQL
3 33 (20.75%) JavaScript
4 23 (14.47%) PowerShell
5 22 (13.84%) Bicep
5 22 (13.84%) Python
6 15 (9.43%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.18%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (6.92%) Java
9 10 (6.29%) Formula Language
9 10 (6.29%) LotusScript
10 3 (1.89%) X++
11 1 (0.63%) Korn
11 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (25.16%) Security Cleared
2 29 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.92%) Degree
4 10 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.66%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) Data Quality
1 8 (5.03%) GDPR
2 7 (4.40%) QA
3 3 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.26%) FedRAMP
4 2 (1.26%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.63%) NCSC
5 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (16.98%) Docker
2 14 (8.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (20.75%) Terraform
2 28 (17.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.77%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.14%) Grafana
5 4 (2.52%) Ansible
5 4 (2.52%) Istio
5 4 (2.52%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.52%) linkerd
Vendors
1 80 (50.31%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.55%) Oracle
3 10 (6.29%) Databricks
3 10 (6.29%) Kofax
3 10 (6.29%) Lotus
4 8 (5.03%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.89%) Informatica
5 3 (1.89%) SAP
5 3 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.89%) Talend
5 3 (1.89%) Workday
6 2 (1.26%) Foundry
6 2 (1.26%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.63%) Aderant
7 1 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.63%) iManage
7 1 (0.63%) New Relic
7 1 (0.63%) Planview
7 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.63%) Solace