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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 430 336
Rank change year-on-year -65 -94 +61
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 136 98 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.35% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.92% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 58 117
10th Percentile £419 £362 £430
25th Percentile £464 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £517 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -13.83% -
75th Percentile £614 £620 £675
90th Percentile £650 £691 £716
UK median daily rate £545 £508 £600
% change year-on-year +7.39% -15.42% -

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 16,066 10,672 11,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.19% 34.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,700 7,228 7,489
10th Percentile £320 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 249 162
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +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 1 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 1 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 -58 91 £550 +4.76% 58
South East -52 13 £460 -23.33% 23
East of England -21 10 £550 -18.52% 4
Midlands -49 9 £500 -2.44% 8
North of England -71 8 £575 +27.78% 17
East Midlands -14 6 £500 -12.09% 1
North West -48 6 £575 +27.78% 6
South West -36 4 £470 +25.33% 4
West Midlands -40 2 £625 +24.07% 7
Yorkshire -40 2 £588 - 10
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 (11.03%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.68%) CMS
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.47%) Mendix
4 2 (1.47%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.74%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.74%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 15 (11.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.68%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.47%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (47.06%) Serverless
3 58 (42.65%) Azure Functions
4 57 (41.91%) Azure Logic Apps
5 50 (36.76%) Dynamics 365
6 47 (34.56%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (32.35%) Power Platform
8 28 (20.59%) PowerApps
9 26 (19.12%) Azure Event Grid
10 25 (18.38%) Power Automate
11 24 (17.65%) AWS
12 22 (16.18%) Entra ID
13 21 (15.44%) GitHub
14 19 (13.97%) Azure AKS
14 19 (13.97%) Azure API Management
15 18 (13.24%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
17 16 (11.76%) Copilot Studio
18 14 (10.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.35%) HTTP
2 3 (2.21%) Network Security
2 3 (2.21%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) DKIM
3 1 (0.74%) DMARC
3 1 (0.74%) Firewall
3 1 (0.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.74%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.24%) Power BI
2 11 (8.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.15%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.68%) Metadata
5 4 (2.94%) InfluxDB
5 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.74%) Parquet
8 1 (0.74%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (12.50%) Git
2 13 (9.56%) JIRA
3 5 (3.68%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (2.21%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.47%) NUnit
6 2 (1.47%) TestRail
7 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.74%) JUnit
7 1 (0.74%) MSTest
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.74%) Selenium
7 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.91%) Finance
3 16 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.15%) Marketing
6 3 (2.21%) Local Government
6 3 (2.21%) Retail
7 2 (1.47%) Banking
7 2 (1.47%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Automotive
8 1 (0.74%) Billing
8 1 (0.74%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Front Office
8 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.74%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 65 (47.79%) Developer
2 28 (20.59%) Architect
3 21 (15.44%) Senior
3 21 (15.44%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (14.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 14 (10.29%) .NET Developer
5 14 (10.29%) Lead
6 13 (9.56%) Azure Developer
7 9 (6.62%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Power Platform Developer
9 6 (4.41%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.68%) Backend Developer
10 5 (3.68%) Consultant
10 5 (3.68%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 5 (3.68%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.94%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
11 4 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (2.94%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (55.88%) .NET
2 46 (33.82%) REST
3 26 (19.12%) OAuth
4 22 (16.18%) JSON
5 21 (15.44%) Kafka
6 20 (14.71%) XML
7 19 (13.97%) Terraform
8 17 (12.50%) Middleware
8 17 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (11.76%) OpenAPI
9 16 (11.76%) Swagger
10 15 (11.03%) SOAP
11 12 (8.82%) GraphQL
12 11 (8.09%) EDI
12 11 (8.09%) JWT
12 11 (8.09%) OAuth2
12 11 (8.09%) RESTful
13 10 (7.35%) OpenID
13 10 (7.35%) SAML
14 9 (6.62%) React
Miscellaneous
1 39 (28.68%) Cloud Native
2 24 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.62%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.62%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.15%) Low-Code
5 6 (4.41%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.94%) NHS
7 4 (2.94%) Wiki
8 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.21%) IoT
8 3 (2.21%) Life Science
9 2 (1.47%) BYOD
9 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Licensing
10 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (53.68%) CI/CD
2 71 (52.21%) DevOps
3 55 (40.44%) Event-Driven
4 52 (38.24%) Agile
5 43 (31.62%) API Management
6 42 (30.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 31 (22.79%) Microservices
8 29 (21.32%) Integration Patterns
9 23 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (13.97%) AI
12 19 (13.97%) CRM
13 18 (13.24%) Analytics
13 18 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (13.24%) Enterprise Architecture
13 18 (13.24%) TDD
14 17 (12.50%) API Integration
14 17 (12.50%) Containerisation
14 17 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 68 (50.00%) C#
2 31 (22.79%) SQL
3 27 (19.85%) JavaScript
4 26 (19.12%) Python
5 21 (15.44%) Bicep
6 19 (13.97%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.62%) Java
8 4 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.21%) X++
10 1 (0.74%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.74%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.74%) C
10 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.74%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 34 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.41%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.94%) Degree
5 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.62%) QA
2 6 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.21%) GDPR
3 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.21%) NIST
4 2 (1.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (16.91%) Docker
2 9 (6.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.47%) Grafana
3 1 (0.74%) Istio
3 1 (0.74%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.74%) linkerd
3 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 77 (56.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.82%) Oracle
3 11 (8.09%) MuleSoft
4 9 (6.62%) Google
4 9 (6.62%) IBM
4 9 (6.62%) Informatica
4 9 (6.62%) TIBCO
4 9 (6.62%) WSO2
5 5 (3.68%) Workday
6 4 (2.94%) Databricks
7 3 (2.21%) Aprimo
7 3 (2.21%) OneTrust
7 3 (2.21%) Optimizely
7 3 (2.21%) SAP
7 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.47%) Adyen
9 1 (0.74%) Concur
9 1 (0.74%) Okta
9 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.74%) Splunk