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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 395 350
Rank change year-on-year -52 -45 +74
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 153 79 196
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.33% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 0.88% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 51 116
10th Percentile £415 £450 £423
25th Percentile £455 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +0.67% -7.29%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £666
90th Percentile £681 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -8.18% -4.35% -2.54%

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 14,697 8,969 11,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.14% 37.48% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,011 6,159 8,493
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £747
UK median daily rate £508 £508 £525
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 207 324
10th Percentile £15.67 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.96 £15.96
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.63 £38.28
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £68.23
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%

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 29 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 29 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 -22 104 £525 -5.23% 19
East of England -18 13 £550 -18.52% 2
North of England -62 12 £525 +16.67% 6
South East -52 11 £575 -8.00% 11
Midlands -56 7 £500 -2.44% 7
North West -28 6 £575 +27.78% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 1
East Midlands -23 4 £500 -13.04% 2
West Midlands -61 3 £463 -8.19% 5
South West -32 2 £450 +20.00% 1
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 27 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.54%) HCL Notes
2 10 (6.54%) Mendix
2 10 (6.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.31%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.31%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.31%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.65%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 153 (100.00%) Azure
2 72 (47.06%) Serverless
3 67 (43.79%) Azure Logic Apps
4 61 (39.87%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (39.87%) Azure Functions
5 48 (31.37%) Dynamics 365
6 42 (27.45%) Power Platform
7 41 (26.80%) Power Automate
8 32 (20.92%) Azure Event Grid
9 31 (20.26%) Entra ID
10 30 (19.61%) PowerApps
11 27 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
12 26 (16.99%) Azure AKS
13 24 (15.69%) GitHub
14 20 (13.07%) Azure API Management
15 19 (12.42%) Azure Key Vault
15 19 (12.42%) PaaS
16 16 (10.46%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (8.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.58%) SMS
2 2 (1.31%) HTTP
2 2 (1.31%) Network Security
2 2 (1.31%) VPN
3 1 (0.65%) DKIM
3 1 (0.65%) DMARC
3 1 (0.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
1 15 (9.80%) Power BI
2 10 (6.54%) Oracle Database
3 9 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.61%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.31%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) Metadata
8 1 (0.65%) Redis
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.65%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (8.50%) Git
2 4 (2.61%) Selenium
3 3 (1.96%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.31%) JIRA
4 2 (1.31%) NUnit
4 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.65%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) Moq
5 1 (0.65%) Postman
5 1 (0.65%) Serilog
5 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (24.84%) Finance
2 30 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 28 (18.30%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.19%) Financial Institution
5 8 (5.23%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.92%) Marketing
7 4 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Banking
9 2 (1.31%) Aviation
9 2 (1.31%) Law
9 2 (1.31%) Legal
9 2 (1.31%) Local Government
9 2 (1.31%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Automotive
10 1 (0.65%) Billing
10 1 (0.65%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 65 (42.48%) Developer
2 32 (20.92%) Architect
3 26 (16.99%) Senior
4 23 (15.03%) Azure Developer
5 18 (11.76%) .NET Developer
6 17 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 14 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (8.50%) Lead
9 10 (6.54%) Consultant
9 10 (6.54%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (6.54%) Power Platform Developer
9 10 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 8 (5.23%) Azure Architect
11 8 (5.23%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 7 (4.58%) Integration Architect
12 7 (4.58%) Technical Consultant
13 6 (3.92%) Platform Architect
13 6 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
13 6 (3.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (48.37%) .NET
2 35 (22.88%) REST
3 25 (16.34%) React
4 17 (11.11%) Kafka
5 16 (10.46%) RESTful
6 15 (9.80%) .NET Framework
7 13 (8.50%) OAuth
7 13 (8.50%) SOAP
8 12 (7.84%) .NET Core
9 11 (7.19%) HTML5 Canvas
9 11 (7.19%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (7.19%) OAuth2
9 11 (7.19%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (7.19%) Web Services
10 9 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (5.88%) JSON
11 8 (5.23%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.23%) Middleware
11 8 (5.23%) OpenID
12 7 (4.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.80%) Low-Code
3 11 (7.19%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.54%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.61%) IoT
6 4 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.31%) BYOD
8 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Wiki
9 1 (0.65%) CMDB
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.65%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.65%) State Machine
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (64.05%) DevOps
2 78 (50.98%) CI/CD
3 50 (32.68%) Event-Driven
4 43 (28.10%) API Management
5 35 (22.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 34 (22.22%) Microservices
7 30 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (19.61%) Integration Patterns
8 25 (16.34%) Data Modelling
9 22 (14.38%) Analytics
10 21 (13.73%) Mentoring
10 21 (13.73%) Observability
10 21 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (13.07%) Migration
12 19 (12.42%) Agile
12 19 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (11.76%) API Integration
13 18 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (10.46%) CRM
14 16 (10.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (56.86%) C#
2 43 (28.10%) SQL
3 33 (21.57%) JavaScript
4 22 (14.38%) PowerShell
5 17 (11.11%) Python
6 16 (10.46%) Bicep
7 14 (9.15%) TypeScript
8 12 (7.84%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (6.54%) Formula Language
9 10 (6.54%) Java
9 10 (6.54%) LotusScript
10 5 (3.27%) X++
11 1 (0.65%) Korn
11 1 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (24.84%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.84%) Degree
4 9 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 9 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.54%) GDPR
2 6 (3.92%) QA
3 5 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.31%) FedRAMP
4 2 (1.31%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.31%) NIST
4 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.31%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (15.03%) Docker
2 13 (8.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (16.34%) Kubernetes
1 25 (16.34%) Terraform
2 5 (3.27%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.61%) Grafana
3 4 (2.61%) Istio
3 4 (2.61%) Kustomize
3 4 (2.61%) linkerd
Vendors
1 77 (50.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.50%) Oracle
3 10 (6.54%) Kofax
3 10 (6.54%) Lotus
4 5 (3.27%) Databricks
4 5 (3.27%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.61%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.61%) SAP
5 4 (2.61%) Workday
6 2 (1.31%) Foundry
6 2 (1.31%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.65%) Aderant
7 1 (0.65%) Adobe
7 1 (0.65%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.65%) Concur
7 1 (0.65%) IBM
7 1 (0.65%) iManage
7 1 (0.65%) New Relic
7 1 (0.65%) Planview
7 1 (0.65%) SnapLogic