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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 398 367
Rank change year-on-year -61 -31 +62
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 148 86 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.34% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 0.90% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 54 118
10th Percentile £415 £353 £429
25th Percentile £468 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £513 £556
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% -7.87% -5.72%
75th Percentile £628 £604 £675
90th Percentile £688 £661 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £556
% change year-on-year +5.00% -10.11% -5.08%

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 15,223 9,508 12,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.06% 37.88% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,307 6,455 8,632
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 241 339
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.09 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.34% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% +28.41% -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -32 91 £525 +2.79% 38
East of England -12 16 £550 -18.52% 6
North of England -63 14 £525 +16.67% 7
South East -61 12 £591 -3.47% 26
Midlands -58 9 £500 -0.74% 3
North West -34 8 £600 +33.33% 5
East Midlands -14 6 £500 -13.04% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 1
West Midlands -59 3 £555 +12.12% 2
South West -48 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 23 (15.54%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.38%) HCL Notes
3 5 (3.38%) Mendix
4 2 (1.35%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (9.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.35%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.68%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (45.95%) Serverless
3 63 (42.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 59 (39.86%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (38.51%) Azure Functions
6 44 (29.73%) Dynamics 365
7 39 (26.35%) Power Platform
8 35 (23.65%) Power Automate
9 33 (22.30%) Azure Event Grid
10 30 (20.27%) Entra ID
10 30 (20.27%) PowerApps
11 27 (18.24%) Azure AKS
11 27 (18.24%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (16.89%) GitHub
13 24 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (13.51%) Azure API Management
15 19 (12.84%) Azure Key Vault
16 17 (11.49%) AWS
17 16 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (10.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) SMS
2 3 (2.03%) VPN
3 2 (1.35%) HTTP
3 2 (1.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.68%) DKIM
4 1 (0.68%) DMARC
4 1 (0.68%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (8.11%) Power BI
3 9 (6.08%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.38%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.70%) InfluxDB
5 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.35%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Metadata
8 1 (0.68%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (10.14%) Git
2 4 (2.70%) Selenium
3 3 (2.03%) JIRA
3 3 (2.03%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.35%) NUnit
4 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.68%) Moq
5 1 (0.68%) Postman
5 1 (0.68%) Serilog
5 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (20.95%) Finance
2 25 (16.89%) Public Sector
3 21 (14.19%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.05%) Financial Institution
4 6 (4.05%) Marketing
5 4 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.03%) Law
6 3 (2.03%) Local Government
7 2 (1.35%) Aviation
7 2 (1.35%) Banking
7 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.35%) Legal
7 2 (1.35%) Retail
8 1 (0.68%) Automotive
8 1 (0.68%) Billing
8 1 (0.68%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 65 (43.92%) Developer
2 31 (20.95%) Architect
3 26 (17.57%) Senior
4 21 (14.19%) Azure Developer
5 19 (12.84%) .NET Developer
6 16 (10.81%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.14%) Lead
8 13 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (8.78%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (6.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Consultant
10 7 (4.73%) Integration Architect
11 6 (4.05%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 6 (4.05%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 6 (4.05%) Platform Architect
11 6 (4.05%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (4.05%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (48.65%) .NET
2 36 (24.32%) REST
3 19 (12.84%) React
3 19 (12.84%) RESTful
4 18 (12.16%) Kafka
5 15 (10.14%) .NET Framework
5 15 (10.14%) OAuth
5 15 (10.14%) SOAP
6 14 (9.46%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (8.11%) OAuth2
8 11 (7.43%) Microsoft Graph
8 11 (7.43%) Web Services
9 10 (6.76%) JSON
10 9 (6.08%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (6.08%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (6.08%) OpenID
11 8 (5.41%) .NET Core
11 8 (5.41%) Middleware
11 8 (5.41%) XML
12 7 (4.73%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.62%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.43%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.38%) IoT
5 4 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.35%) BYOD
7 2 (1.35%) NHS
7 2 (1.35%) Wiki
8 1 (0.68%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.68%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (58.78%) DevOps
2 75 (50.68%) CI/CD
3 55 (37.16%) Event-Driven
4 43 (29.05%) API Management
5 37 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 35 (23.65%) Microservices
7 29 (19.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (16.89%) Data Modelling
8 25 (16.89%) Integration Patterns
9 24 (16.22%) Agile
10 23 (15.54%) Observability
11 22 (14.86%) Analytics
12 21 (14.19%) Mentoring
13 19 (12.84%) Containerisation
14 18 (12.16%) API Integration
14 18 (12.16%) CRM
14 18 (12.16%) Migration
14 18 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (12.16%) Technical Leadership
15 15 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 80 (54.05%) C#
2 35 (23.65%) SQL
3 31 (20.95%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.51%) Python
5 16 (10.81%) PowerShell
6 15 (10.14%) TypeScript
7 12 (8.11%) Bicep
7 12 (8.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (7.43%) Java
9 5 (3.38%) Formula Language
9 5 (3.38%) LotusScript
10 4 (2.70%) X++
11 1 (0.68%) Korn
11 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.76%) Degree
4 8 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.08%) GDPR
2 5 (3.38%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.38%) QA
3 3 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.03%) NIST
4 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.35%) FedRAMP
4 2 (1.35%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (17.57%) Docker
2 12 (8.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 22 (14.86%) Terraform
3 5 (3.38%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.70%) Grafana
4 4 (2.70%) Istio
4 4 (2.70%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.70%) linkerd
Vendors
1 71 (47.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.41%) Oracle
3 5 (3.38%) Kofax
3 5 (3.38%) Lotus
3 5 (3.38%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.70%) Databricks
4 4 (2.70%) SAP
4 4 (2.70%) Workday
5 3 (2.03%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.35%) Foundry
6 2 (1.35%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.68%) Aderant
7 1 (0.68%) Adobe
7 1 (0.68%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.68%) Concur
7 1 (0.68%) IBM
7 1 (0.68%) iManage
7 1 (0.68%) New Relic
7 1 (0.68%) Planview
7 1 (0.68%) SnapLogic