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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 422 330
Rank change year-on-year -73 -92 +74
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 139 96 201
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.34% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.87% 0.90% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 54 116
10th Percentile £419 £361 £430
25th Percentile £468 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £517 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -13.83% -
75th Percentile £613 £634 £675
90th Percentile £646 £696 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £510 £581
% change year-on-year +7.84% -12.26% -3.13%

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 16,054 10,705 11,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.49% 38.30% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,690 7,236 7,464
10th Percentile £321 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.86%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 255 161
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +6.06%

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 7 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 7 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -47 95 £550 +5.11% 73
South East -56 13 £460 -24.90% 24
East of England -19 10 £550 -18.52% 4
Midlands -46 9 £500 -2.44% 8
North of England -67 7 £525 +16.67% 16
East Midlands -17 6 £500 -12.09%
North West -39 6 £575 +27.78% 7
South West -43 4 £470 +25.33% 3
West Midlands -50 2 £625 +24.07% 8
Yorkshire -35 1 £475 - 7
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 15 (10.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.60%) CMS
2 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.44%) Mendix
3 2 (1.44%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 15 (10.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.60%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.44%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.72%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.72%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (48.92%) Serverless
3 62 (44.60%) Azure Functions
4 57 (41.01%) Azure Logic Apps
5 52 (37.41%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (35.25%) Dynamics 365
7 48 (34.53%) Power Platform
8 29 (20.86%) PowerApps
9 27 (19.42%) Power Automate
10 26 (18.71%) Azure Event Grid
10 26 (18.71%) Entra ID
11 25 (17.99%) GitHub
12 24 (17.27%) AWS
13 22 (15.83%) Azure API Management
14 21 (15.11%) Azure Monitor
15 19 (13.67%) Azure AKS
16 18 (12.95%) Azure Key Vault
16 18 (12.95%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (11.51%) Copilot Studio
18 14 (10.07%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.19%) HTTP
2 3 (2.16%) Network Security
2 3 (2.16%) VPN
3 1 (0.72%) DKIM
3 1 (0.72%) DMARC
3 1 (0.72%) Firewall
3 1 (0.72%) Internet
3 1 (0.72%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.67%) Power BI
2 13 (9.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.04%) Metadata
3 7 (5.04%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.88%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.88%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.44%) Redis
9 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.72%) Parquet
9 1 (0.72%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (12.23%) Git
2 13 (9.35%) JIRA
3 5 (3.60%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (2.16%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.44%) NUnit
6 2 (1.44%) TestRail
7 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.72%) JUnit
7 1 (0.72%) MSTest
7 1 (0.72%) Postman
7 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.72%) Selenium
7 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.27%) Finance
3 20 (14.39%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.76%) Marketing
6 3 (2.16%) Local Government
7 2 (1.44%) Banking
7 2 (1.44%) Legal
7 2 (1.44%) Police
7 2 (1.44%) Retail
8 1 (0.72%) Automotive
8 1 (0.72%) Billing
8 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Front Office
8 1 (0.72%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.72%) Law
8 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (47.48%) Developer
2 30 (21.58%) Architect
3 24 (17.27%) Senior
4 22 (15.83%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (15.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 14 (10.07%) .NET Developer
7 13 (9.35%) Azure Developer
7 13 (9.35%) Lead
8 9 (6.47%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Senior Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Consultant
11 5 (3.60%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (2.88%) Integration Developer
12 4 (2.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (55.40%) .NET
2 50 (35.97%) REST
3 27 (19.42%) OAuth
4 23 (16.55%) JSON
5 22 (15.83%) Terraform
6 21 (15.11%) Kafka
7 20 (14.39%) XML
8 19 (13.67%) Middleware
9 17 (12.23%) OpenAPI
9 17 (12.23%) RabbitMQ
9 17 (12.23%) Swagger
10 15 (10.79%) SOAP
11 12 (8.63%) GraphQL
11 12 (8.63%) JWT
11 12 (8.63%) OAuth2
12 11 (7.91%) EDI
12 11 (7.91%) OpenID
12 11 (7.91%) RESTful
13 10 (7.19%) SAML
14 9 (6.47%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (28.78%) Cloud Native
2 27 (19.42%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (6.47%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.04%) Low-Code
6 6 (4.32%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.32%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.88%) Wiki
8 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.16%) IoT
8 3 (2.16%) Life Science
8 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.16%) NHS
9 2 (1.44%) BYOD
9 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.44%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (55.40%) CI/CD
2 76 (54.68%) DevOps
3 59 (42.45%) Event-Driven
4 53 (38.13%) Agile
5 47 (33.81%) API Management
6 45 (32.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 33 (23.74%) Microservices
8 30 (21.58%) Integration Patterns
9 26 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (15.83%) Analytics
13 20 (14.39%) AI
13 20 (14.39%) Enterprise Architecture
14 19 (13.67%) API Integration
14 19 (13.67%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (13.67%) CRM
15 18 (12.95%) Containerisation
15 18 (12.95%) Data Modelling
15 18 (12.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 69 (49.64%) C#
2 33 (23.74%) SQL
3 28 (20.14%) JavaScript
4 26 (18.71%) Python
5 24 (17.27%) Bicep
6 20 (14.39%) TypeScript
7 10 (7.19%) Java
8 4 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.16%) X++
10 1 (0.72%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.72%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (30.22%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.34%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.76%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.88%) Degree
5 4 (2.88%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.88%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) QA
2 8 (5.76%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.16%) GDPR
3 3 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.16%) NIST
4 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.44%) SLA
5 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (17.27%) Docker
2 9 (6.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (18.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.32%) Grafana
3 1 (0.72%) Istio
3 1 (0.72%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.72%) linkerd
3 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 81 (58.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.07%) Oracle
3 11 (7.91%) MuleSoft
4 9 (6.47%) Google
4 9 (6.47%) IBM
4 9 (6.47%) Informatica
4 9 (6.47%) TIBCO
4 9 (6.47%) WSO2
5 5 (3.60%) Workday
6 4 (2.88%) Databricks
6 4 (2.88%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.16%) Aprimo
7 3 (2.16%) OneTrust
7 3 (2.16%) Optimizely
7 3 (2.16%) SAP
7 3 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.44%) Adobe
8 2 (1.44%) Adyen
8 2 (1.44%) Kofax
9 1 (0.72%) Okta