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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 379 370
Rank change year-on-year -37 -9 +86
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 125 115 182
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.42% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 1.15% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 67 120
10th Percentile £400 £518 £424
25th Percentile £415 £567 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £588 £675 £677
90th Percentile £690 £885 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £48.00 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile £67.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.00 - -

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 12,040 10,015 12,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.04% 36.62% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,329 6,697 9,015
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 134 233
10th Percentile £14.47 £16.41 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -0.57%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.18 £51.58
90th Percentile £77.85 £67.63 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in England

Azure Service Bus
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Service Bus in England over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Hourly 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 January 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 -2 89 £500 -22.36% 25
Midlands -30 12 £449 -7.53% 9
South East -49 9 £563 -10.00% 25
East Midlands -19 7 £450 +21.62% 7
West Midlands -32 5 £425 -29.17% 2
North West - 5 £500 - 16
North of England - 5 £500 - 23
East of England -19 2 £725 - 6
Yorkshire - 2 - - 5
South West - 1 - - 9
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 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (7.20%) HCL Notes
3 8 (6.40%) Mendix
4 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.40%) ArcGIS
5 3 (2.40%) Confluence
5 3 (2.40%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.40%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.40%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.40%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.60%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.60%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 124 (99.20%) Azure
2 69 (55.20%) Azure Logic Apps
3 56 (44.80%) Serverless
4 53 (42.40%) Azure Functions
5 51 (40.80%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (28.80%) Azure Monitor
7 34 (27.20%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (24.80%) Power Platform
9 30 (24.00%) Power Automate
10 27 (21.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 27 (21.60%) GitHub
11 25 (20.00%) Entra ID
12 24 (19.20%) Azure Event Grid
13 23 (18.40%) PowerApps
14 22 (17.60%) PaaS
15 21 (16.80%) Azure API Management
15 21 (16.80%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (15.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
18 12 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) Firewall
2 5 (4.00%) HTTP
2 5 (4.00%) Network Security
3 4 (3.20%) SMS
4 2 (1.60%) LAN
4 2 (1.60%) MPLS
4 2 (1.60%) VPN
4 2 (1.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (13.60%) SQL Server
3 16 (12.80%) Power BI
4 9 (7.20%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.40%) Metadata
7 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.60%) Redis
9 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.80%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Git
2 8 (6.40%) Postman
3 4 (3.20%) JIRA
3 4 (3.20%) Selenium
4 2 (1.60%) git-flow
4 2 (1.60%) GitLab
4 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.60%) JMeter
4 2 (1.60%) Locust
4 2 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.80%) Mocha
5 1 (0.80%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.80%) TestRail
General
1 34 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.60%) Finance
3 22 (17.60%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.40%) Banking
4 8 (6.40%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.60%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.80%) Marketing
7 5 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.40%) Aviation
8 3 (2.40%) Billing
8 3 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.60%) Front Office
9 2 (1.60%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Electronics
10 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Legal
10 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.80%) Retail
10 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (52.80%) Developer
2 21 (16.80%) Architect
3 19 (15.20%) Azure Developer
4 18 (14.40%) Senior
5 12 (9.60%) Senior Developer
6 11 (8.80%) Power Platform Developer
7 10 (8.00%) .NET Developer
7 10 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 10 (8.00%) Integration Developer
7 10 (8.00%) Lead
7 10 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (6.40%) Azure Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Consultant
9 6 (4.80%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 5 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (46.40%) .NET
2 28 (22.40%) REST
3 22 (17.60%) .NET Core
4 21 (16.80%) React
5 16 (12.80%) Node.js
6 15 (12.00%) RESTful
6 15 (12.00%) SOAP
7 13 (10.40%) AngularJS
8 12 (9.60%) HTML5 Canvas
9 11 (8.80%) .NET Framework
9 11 (8.80%) Kafka
10 10 (8.00%) JSON
11 9 (7.20%) OAuth
12 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Graph
12 8 (6.40%) PyTorch
12 8 (6.40%) TensorFlow
13 6 (4.80%) Next.js
13 6 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (4.00%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.40%) Low-Code
3 10 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.40%) AI Agents
5 7 (5.60%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.00%) Data Fabric
6 5 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.60%) Derivative
7 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.60%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.80%) IoT
8 1 (0.80%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (66.40%) DevOps
2 72 (57.60%) CI/CD
3 38 (30.40%) API Management
4 34 (27.20%) Analytics
5 29 (23.20%) Agile
5 29 (23.20%) Event-Driven
6 27 (21.60%) Microservices
7 26 (20.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 26 (20.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (18.40%) Log Analytics
9 20 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (15.20%) RBAC
10 19 (15.20%) Test Automation
11 17 (13.60%) Observability
12 16 (12.80%) Containerisation
13 15 (12.00%) Data Management
13 15 (12.00%) Integration Patterns
14 14 (11.20%) AI
14 14 (11.20%) Data Modelling
14 14 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 74 (59.20%) C#
2 50 (40.00%) SQL
3 35 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 23 (18.40%) Bicep
5 19 (15.20%) PowerShell
5 19 (15.20%) Python
6 15 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.20%) Formula Language
7 9 (7.20%) LotusScript
8 5 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (3.20%) X++
10 3 (2.40%) Java
10 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 23 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.80%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.00%) Degree
5 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.60%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) GDPR
2 6 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.40%) QA
4 2 (1.60%) MiFID
5 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.80%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.80%) NCSC
5 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (12.80%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (27.20%) Terraform
2 10 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (54.40%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.40%) Databricks
2 13 (10.40%) Oracle
3 12 (9.60%) OpenAI
4 9 (7.20%) Lotus
5 8 (6.40%) Kofax
5 8 (6.40%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.40%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.40%) Informatica
6 3 (2.40%) Talend
7 2 (1.60%) Portware
7 2 (1.60%) SAP
8 1 (0.80%) Charles River
8 1 (0.80%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.80%) iManage
8 1 (0.80%) Solace
8 1 (0.80%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.80%) Workday