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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 417 332
Rank change year-on-year -69 -85 +90
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 137 102 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.37% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 0.97% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 59 116
10th Percentile £419 £362 £428
25th Percentile £456 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +2.13%
75th Percentile £619 £605 £675
90th Percentile £650 £690 £719
UK median daily rate £545 £508 £600
% change year-on-year +7.39% -15.42% +2.13%

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 15,929 10,493 11,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.50% 37.73% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 7,098 7,761
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 247 174
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.34 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -48 92 £572 +9.32% 50
South East -57 11 £460 -23.33% 20
East of England -24 10 £550 -18.52% 4
Midlands -46 9 £500 -2.44% 6
North of England -62 8 £575 +27.78% 16
East Midlands -14 6 £500 -12.09% 1
North West -49 6 £575 +27.78% 11
South West -35 5 £470 +25.33% 2
Yorkshire -37 2 £588 - 5
West Midlands -46 2 £625 +24.07% 5
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 16 (11.68%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.65%) CMS
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.46%) Mendix
4 2 (1.46%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.73%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.73%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 15 (10.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.65%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.46%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.73%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.73%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (45.26%) Serverless
3 61 (44.53%) Azure Logic Apps
4 56 (40.88%) Azure Functions
5 51 (37.23%) Dynamics 365
6 49 (35.77%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (30.66%) Power Platform
8 28 (20.44%) Azure Event Grid
9 27 (19.71%) PowerApps
10 25 (18.25%) Power Automate
11 24 (17.52%) AWS
11 24 (17.52%) Entra ID
12 23 (16.79%) GitHub
13 21 (15.33%) Azure API Management
14 19 (13.87%) Azure AKS
15 18 (13.14%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (13.14%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (11.68%) Azure Key Vault
16 16 (11.68%) Copilot Studio
17 14 (10.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.30%) HTTP
2 3 (2.19%) Network Security
2 3 (2.19%) VPN
3 1 (0.73%) DKIM
3 1 (0.73%) DMARC
3 1 (0.73%) Firewall
3 1 (0.73%) Internet
3 1 (0.73%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.87%) Power BI
2 11 (8.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.84%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.65%) Metadata
5 4 (2.92%) InfluxDB
5 4 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.19%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.73%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (11.68%) Git
2 13 (9.49%) JIRA
3 5 (3.65%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.92%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.46%) NUnit
5 2 (1.46%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.46%) TestRail
6 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.73%) JUnit
6 1 (0.73%) MSTest
6 1 (0.73%) Postman
6 1 (0.73%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.73%) Selenium
6 1 (0.73%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (20.44%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.79%) Finance
3 16 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.38%) Marketing
6 3 (2.19%) Legal
6 3 (2.19%) Local Government
6 3 (2.19%) Retail
7 2 (1.46%) Banking
7 2 (1.46%) Law
8 1 (0.73%) Automotive
8 1 (0.73%) Billing
8 1 (0.73%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (45.26%) Developer
2 30 (21.90%) Architect
3 21 (15.33%) Senior
3 21 (15.33%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (13.87%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 14 (10.22%) .NET Developer
5 14 (10.22%) Azure Developer
5 14 (10.22%) Lead
6 9 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (6.57%) Senior Developer
7 8 (5.84%) Integration Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (4.38%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 5 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.65%) Backend Developer
9 5 (3.65%) Consultant
9 5 (3.65%) Software Developer
10 4 (2.92%) Lead Developer
10 4 (2.92%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (55.47%) .NET
2 46 (33.58%) REST
3 27 (19.71%) OAuth
4 23 (16.79%) JSON
5 20 (14.60%) Kafka
5 20 (14.60%) XML
6 19 (13.87%) Terraform
7 17 (12.41%) Middleware
7 17 (12.41%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (11.68%) OpenAPI
8 16 (11.68%) Swagger
9 15 (10.95%) SOAP
10 12 (8.76%) GraphQL
10 12 (8.76%) JWT
10 12 (8.76%) OAuth2
11 11 (8.03%) EDI
12 10 (7.30%) OpenID
12 10 (7.30%) SAML
13 9 (6.57%) .NET Framework
13 9 (6.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.20%) Cloud Native
2 24 (17.52%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.30%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (6.57%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.11%) Low-Code
6 6 (4.38%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.65%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (3.65%) Wiki
8 4 (2.92%) IoT
8 4 (2.92%) NHS
9 3 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.19%) Life Science
10 2 (1.46%) BYOD
10 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.73%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.73%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (54.01%) CI/CD
2 73 (53.28%) DevOps
3 55 (40.15%) Event-Driven
4 51 (37.23%) Agile
5 47 (34.31%) API Management
6 40 (29.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 31 (22.63%) Integration Patterns
8 29 (21.17%) Microservices
9 23 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (13.87%) AI
11 19 (13.87%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (13.87%) CRM
11 19 (13.87%) Enterprise Architecture
12 18 (13.14%) Analytics
12 18 (13.14%) API Integration
12 18 (13.14%) Containerisation
13 17 (12.41%) Data Modelling
13 17 (12.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 67 (48.91%) C#
2 31 (22.63%) SQL
3 27 (19.71%) JavaScript
4 25 (18.25%) Python
5 21 (15.33%) Bicep
6 18 (13.14%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.57%) Java
8 4 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.19%) X++
10 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.73%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.73%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (27.74%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.38%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.92%) Degree
5 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.57%) QA
2 6 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.92%) GDPR
4 3 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.19%) NIST
5 2 (1.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (17.52%) Docker
2 11 (8.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (17.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.73%) Istio
3 1 (0.73%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.73%) linkerd
3 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 77 (56.20%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.49%) Oracle
3 11 (8.03%) MuleSoft
4 9 (6.57%) Google
4 9 (6.57%) IBM
4 9 (6.57%) Informatica
4 9 (6.57%) TIBCO
4 9 (6.57%) WSO2
5 6 (4.38%) Workday
6 4 (2.92%) SAP
7 3 (2.19%) Aprimo
7 3 (2.19%) Databricks
7 3 (2.19%) OneTrust
7 3 (2.19%) Optimizely
7 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.46%) Adyen
9 1 (0.73%) Concur
9 1 (0.73%) iManage
9 1 (0.73%) Okta
9 1 (0.73%) SnapLogic