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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 409 359
Rank change year-on-year -58 -50 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 149 87 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.34% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 0.90% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 53 119
10th Percentile £424 £352 £429
25th Percentile £480 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -8.89% -4.26%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £675
90th Percentile £681 £661 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £569
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.09% -1.09%

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 15,339 9,656 12,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.67% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,518 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 250 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.20 £67.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -31 94 £550 +7.68% 38
East of England -9 16 £550 -18.52% 7
North of England -63 15 £525 +16.67% 5
North West -33 9 £600 +33.33% 4
Midlands -57 9 £500 -0.74% 3
South East -64 9 £608 +1.25% 24
East Midlands -9 6 £500 -13.04% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 1
West Midlands -54 3 £555 +12.12% 2
South West -34 2 £450 +20.00% 3
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 20 (13.42%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.68%) HCL Notes
3 4 (2.68%) Mendix
4 1 (0.67%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (8.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.34%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.67%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (44.97%) Azure Logic Apps
3 65 (43.62%) Serverless
4 58 (38.93%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (35.57%) Azure Functions
6 45 (30.20%) Dynamics 365
7 41 (27.52%) Power Platform
8 33 (22.15%) Azure Event Grid
9 32 (21.48%) Power Automate
10 29 (19.46%) Entra ID
10 29 (19.46%) PowerApps
11 28 (18.79%) Azure AKS
12 27 (18.12%) Azure Monitor
13 25 (16.78%) GitHub
14 22 (14.77%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (13.42%) Azure API Management
16 19 (12.75%) Azure Key Vault
17 18 (12.08%) AWS
18 17 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (9.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) SMS
2 3 (2.01%) VPN
3 2 (1.34%) HTTP
3 2 (1.34%) Network Security
4 1 (0.67%) DKIM
4 1 (0.67%) DMARC
4 1 (0.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.07%) Power BI
2 12 (8.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (6.71%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.68%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.68%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.01%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.34%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) Metadata
7 1 (0.67%) Redis
7 1 (0.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (10.74%) Git
2 7 (4.70%) JIRA
3 4 (2.68%) SpecFlow
4 3 (2.01%) Selenium
5 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.34%) NUnit
5 2 (1.34%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.67%) Moq
6 1 (0.67%) Postman
6 1 (0.67%) Serilog
6 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (20.81%) Finance
2 23 (15.44%) Public Sector
2 23 (15.44%) Social Skills
3 5 (3.36%) Financial Institution
3 5 (3.36%) Marketing
4 3 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.01%) Law
4 3 (2.01%) Local Government
4 3 (2.01%) Retail
5 2 (1.34%) Banking
5 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.34%) Legal
6 1 (0.67%) Automotive
6 1 (0.67%) Aviation
6 1 (0.67%) Billing
6 1 (0.67%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 68 (45.64%) Developer
2 30 (20.13%) Architect
3 26 (17.45%) Senior
4 22 (14.77%) Azure Developer
5 19 (12.75%) .NET Developer
6 16 (10.74%) Lead
6 16 (10.74%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (8.72%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (8.05%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 10 (6.71%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) Integration Architect
10 7 (4.70%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (4.03%) Consultant
11 6 (4.03%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 6 (4.03%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 6 (4.03%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.36%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.36%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.36%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (49.66%) .NET
2 38 (25.50%) REST
3 18 (12.08%) React
4 17 (11.41%) Kafka
4 17 (11.41%) RESTful
5 16 (10.74%) OAuth
6 15 (10.07%) .NET Framework
6 15 (10.07%) SOAP
7 14 (9.40%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (8.72%) OAuth2
9 11 (7.38%) JSON
9 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (7.38%) Web Services
10 9 (6.04%) .NET Core
10 9 (6.04%) OpenID
11 8 (5.37%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.37%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (5.37%) HTML5 Canvas
11 8 (5.37%) Middleware
11 8 (5.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.82%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.71%) Low-Code
3 10 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.36%) IoT
5 4 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.68%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.01%) NHS
7 2 (1.34%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.34%) BYOD
7 2 (1.34%) Wiki
8 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.67%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (61.07%) DevOps
2 80 (53.69%) CI/CD
3 54 (36.24%) Event-Driven
4 41 (27.52%) API Management
5 37 (24.83%) Microservices
6 36 (24.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 32 (21.48%) Agile
8 29 (19.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (16.11%) Integration Patterns
10 23 (15.44%) Analytics
10 23 (15.44%) Data Modelling
11 21 (14.09%) Containerisation
11 21 (14.09%) Mentoring
11 21 (14.09%) Observability
12 19 (12.75%) Migration
13 18 (12.08%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (12.08%) CRM
13 18 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (11.41%) API Integration
14 17 (11.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 76 (51.01%) C#
2 33 (22.15%) SQL
3 29 (19.46%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.42%) Python
5 15 (10.07%) Bicep
5 15 (10.07%) PowerShell
5 15 (10.07%) TypeScript
6 12 (8.05%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (7.38%) Java
8 4 (2.68%) Formula Language
8 4 (2.68%) LotusScript
8 4 (2.68%) X++
9 1 (0.67%) Korn
9 1 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (28.19%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.49%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) Degree
4 9 (6.04%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.37%) GDPR
2 5 (3.36%) QA
3 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.01%) NIST
5 2 (1.34%) FedRAMP
5 2 (1.34%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (18.79%) Docker
2 11 (7.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (20.13%) Kubernetes
2 24 (16.11%) Terraform
3 5 (3.36%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.68%) Grafana
4 4 (2.68%) Istio
4 4 (2.68%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.68%) linkerd
Vendors
1 73 (48.99%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.70%) Oracle
3 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.36%) Workday
4 4 (2.68%) Databricks
4 4 (2.68%) Kofax
4 4 (2.68%) Lotus
4 4 (2.68%) SAP
5 3 (2.01%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.34%) Foundry
6 2 (1.34%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe
7 1 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.67%) Concur
7 1 (0.67%) Genesys
7 1 (0.67%) IBM
7 1 (0.67%) iManage
7 1 (0.67%) New Relic
7 1 (0.67%) Planview
7 1 (0.67%) SnapLogic