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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 386 396
Rank change year-on-year -46 +10 +100
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 112 136 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.21% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 79 133
10th Percentile £362 £509 £418
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 £708 £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 11,711 11,263 13,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.52% 35.84% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 7,484 10,089
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 151 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% +26.84% +18.89%
75th Percentile £49.13 £59.78 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% +12.27% +25.00%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +1 75 £500 -22.96% 28
Midlands -19 13 £447 -7.84% 4
East Midlands -2 9 £450 +21.62% 1
North West -16 7 £500 -20.00% 11
North of England -30 7 £500 -20.00% 14
East of England - 5 £725 - 2
West Midlands -16 4 £368 -38.75% 3
South West 0 3 £375 - 8
South East -35 3 £616 +1.02% 16
Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 10 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.68%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.79%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.89%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.89%) Confluence
5 1 (0.89%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Aladdin
1 5 (4.46%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.57%) Fidessa
2 4 (3.57%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 107 (95.54%) Azure
2 68 (60.71%) Azure Logic Apps
3 51 (45.54%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (35.71%) Serverless
5 39 (34.82%) Azure Monitor
6 35 (31.25%) Azure Functions
7 24 (21.43%) Azure API Management
7 24 (21.43%) Azure Key Vault
7 24 (21.43%) Power Platform
8 23 (20.54%) GitHub
9 21 (18.75%) PowerApps
10 19 (16.96%) Entra ID
10 19 (16.96%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (16.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 18 (16.07%) Azure Event Grid
11 18 (16.07%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (14.29%) PaaS
12 16 (14.29%) Power Automate
13 10 (8.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (8.04%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.04%) Network Security
2 5 (4.46%) Firewall
2 5 (4.46%) HTTP
3 2 (1.79%) LAN
3 2 (1.79%) MPLS
3 2 (1.79%) VPN
3 2 (1.79%) WAN
4 1 (0.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (16.07%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.14%) Power BI
4 4 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.68%) Metadata
5 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.79%) Redis
6 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.89%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Git
2 8 (7.14%) Postman
3 2 (1.79%) git-flow
3 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.79%) JIRA
3 2 (1.79%) JMeter
3 2 (1.79%) Locust
3 2 (1.79%) Selenium
3 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.89%) GitLab
4 1 (0.89%) Mocha
4 1 (0.89%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.89%) TestRail
General
1 34 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.86%) Finance
3 17 (15.18%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.14%) Banking
4 8 (7.14%) Law
5 6 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Billing
8 3 (2.68%) Front Office
9 2 (1.79%) Local Government
9 2 (1.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.89%) Electronics
10 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.89%) Legal
10 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.89%) Retail
10 1 (0.89%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (55.36%) Developer
2 20 (17.86%) Architect
3 16 (14.29%) Senior
4 13 (11.61%) Azure Developer
4 13 (11.61%) Integration Developer
4 13 (11.61%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.82%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.93%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 10 (8.93%) Lead
7 9 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) .NET Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Applications Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Azure Architect
9 5 (4.46%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.46%) C# Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Power Apps Developer
10 4 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.57%) Oracle Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.57%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (46.43%) .NET
2 29 (25.89%) REST
3 23 (20.54%) .NET Core
4 21 (18.75%) SOAP
5 15 (13.39%) React
6 14 (12.50%) .NET Framework
6 14 (12.50%) Node.js
7 12 (10.71%) JSON
7 12 (10.71%) RESTful
8 11 (9.82%) AngularJS
8 11 (9.82%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (8.04%) ARM Templates
9 9 (8.04%) OAuth
9 9 (8.04%) YAML
10 8 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
10 8 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (6.25%) Kafka
12 6 (5.36%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (5.36%) PyTorch
12 6 (5.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.96%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.36%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.36%) Data Fabric
5 6 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.36%) Low-Code
6 5 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.46%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.57%) Derivative
7 4 (3.57%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.68%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.68%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.89%) IoT
10 1 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (67.86%) DevOps
2 61 (54.46%) CI/CD
3 38 (33.93%) API Management
4 37 (33.04%) Agile
4 37 (33.04%) Analytics
5 30 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (26.79%) Log Analytics
6 24 (21.43%) Event-Driven
7 23 (20.54%) Microservices
8 21 (18.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.61%) Containerisation
10 13 (11.61%) DevSecOps
10 13 (11.61%) Observability
10 13 (11.61%) Scrum
10 13 (11.61%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (10.71%) RBAC
12 11 (9.82%) AI
12 11 (9.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 60 (53.57%) C#
2 43 (38.39%) SQL
3 31 (27.68%) JavaScript
4 26 (23.21%) Python
5 22 (19.64%) Bicep
6 17 (15.18%) PowerShell
7 13 (11.61%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.25%) Java
9 6 (5.36%) Bash
9 6 (5.36%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (4.46%) X++
11 2 (1.79%) Formula Language
11 2 (1.79%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 23 (20.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.79%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.79%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.89%) Degree
5 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) GDPR
2 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.57%) MiFID
3 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.89%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.89%) NCSC
4 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (9.82%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.04%) Docker
3 6 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (25.00%) Terraform
2 7 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.46%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.68%) Ansible
5 1 (0.89%) Grafana
5 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (47.32%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.93%) Databricks
3 9 (8.04%) Oracle
4 8 (7.14%) OpenAI
4 8 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.57%) Portware
6 3 (2.68%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.68%) Informatica
6 3 (2.68%) Talend
7 2 (1.79%) Lotus
7 2 (1.79%) SAP
8 1 (0.89%) Charles River
8 1 (0.89%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.89%) iManage
8 1 (0.89%) Kofax
8 1 (0.89%) Northgate
8 1 (0.89%) Solace
8 1 (0.89%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.89%) Workday