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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 416 338
Rank change year-on-year -80 -78 +74
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 136 105 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 1.02% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 64 110
10th Percentile £419 £361 £425
25th Percentile £469 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £622 £641 £675
90th Percentile £653 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%

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 15,942 10,310 11,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.68% 37.43% 34.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,670 6,964 7,779
10th Percentile £323 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £732 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 262 189
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.60 £19.30
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.01 £59.95
90th Percentile £82.75 £71.43 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.31 £29.07 £30.00
% change year-on-year +14.59% -3.10% -14.29%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -49 92 £575 +9.52% 36
East of England -17 11 £550 -18.52% 3
North of England -67 9 £575 +27.78% 8
South East -69 9 £460 -23.33% 12
Midlands -54 8 £500 +1.01% 6
North West -53 7 £575 +27.78% 7
East Midlands -12 6 £500 - 4
South West -40 5 £470 +25.33% 2
Yorkshire -37 2 £613 - 1
West Midlands -49 1 - - 2
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 16 (11.76%) 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%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 16 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.68%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.47%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.74%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (46.32%) Serverless
3 62 (45.59%) Azure Logic Apps
4 56 (41.18%) Azure Functions
5 50 (36.76%) Dynamics 365
6 48 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (30.15%) Power Platform
8 28 (20.59%) Azure Event Grid
9 26 (19.12%) PowerApps
10 25 (18.38%) Entra ID
11 24 (17.65%) Power Automate
12 23 (16.91%) GitHub
13 22 (16.18%) Azure API Management
14 21 (15.44%) AWS
15 20 (14.71%) Azure AKS
16 18 (13.24%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
18 15 (11.03%) Copilot Studio
19 14 (10.29%) Azure Key Vault
20 13 (9.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.88%) HTTP
2 3 (2.21%) VPN
3 2 (1.47%) Network Security
4 1 (0.74%) DKIM
4 1 (0.74%) DMARC
4 1 (0.74%) Firewall
4 1 (0.74%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.97%) Power BI
2 10 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.88%) 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%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.74%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (12.50%) Git
2 13 (9.56%) JIRA
3 4 (2.94%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.21%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.47%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.47%) TestRail
6 1 (0.74%) NUnit
6 1 (0.74%) Postman
6 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.44%) Finance
3 17 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.68%) Marketing
6 3 (2.21%) Legal
6 3 (2.21%) Local Government
6 3 (2.21%) Retail
7 2 (1.47%) Billing
7 2 (1.47%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Automotive
8 1 (0.74%) Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (46.32%) Developer
2 28 (20.59%) Architect
3 23 (16.91%) Senior
4 18 (13.24%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 18 (13.24%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (11.03%) .NET Developer
6 14 (10.29%) Azure Developer
6 14 (10.29%) Lead
7 10 (7.35%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.62%) Integration Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 5 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Consultant
11 5 (3.68%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Technical Leader
12 4 (2.94%) Integration Architect
12 4 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (58.09%) .NET
2 41 (30.15%) REST
3 23 (16.91%) OAuth
4 22 (16.18%) JSON
5 19 (13.97%) Terraform
6 18 (13.24%) Kafka
6 18 (13.24%) XML
7 16 (11.76%) Middleware
7 16 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (9.56%) OpenAPI
8 13 (9.56%) SOAP
8 13 (9.56%) Swagger
9 11 (8.09%) OAuth2
9 11 (8.09%) RESTful
10 10 (7.35%) .NET Framework
10 10 (7.35%) GraphQL
10 10 (7.35%) JWT
11 9 (6.62%) EDI
11 9 (6.62%) OpenID
11 9 (6.62%) React
Miscellaneous
1 39 (28.68%) Cloud Native
2 22 (16.18%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.35%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (6.62%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.15%) Low-Code
6 6 (4.41%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (3.68%) IoT
7 5 (3.68%) Wiki
8 4 (2.94%) NHS
9 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.21%) Life Science
10 2 (1.47%) BYOD
10 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.74%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (54.41%) CI/CD
1 74 (54.41%) DevOps
2 55 (40.44%) Event-Driven
3 51 (37.50%) Agile
4 44 (32.35%) API Management
5 39 (28.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 30 (22.06%) Microservices
7 28 (20.59%) Integration Patterns
8 24 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (14.71%) CRM
11 19 (13.97%) AI
11 19 (13.97%) Migration
12 18 (13.24%) API Integration
12 18 (13.24%) Containerisation
12 18 (13.24%) Data Modelling
13 16 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
13 16 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 66 (48.53%) C#
2 29 (21.32%) SQL
3 26 (19.12%) JavaScript
4 25 (18.38%) Python
5 20 (14.71%) Bicep
6 16 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.88%) Java
8 4 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.21%) X++
10 2 (1.47%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.74%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.74%) ActionScript 2.0
11 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 5 (3.68%) Degree
6 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) QA
2 6 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.94%) GDPR
4 3 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.21%) NIST
5 2 (1.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (17.65%) Docker
2 12 (8.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (18.38%) 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 76 (55.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.82%) Oracle
3 9 (6.62%) MuleSoft
4 7 (5.15%) Google
4 7 (5.15%) IBM
4 7 (5.15%) Informatica
4 7 (5.15%) TIBCO
4 7 (5.15%) WSO2
5 6 (4.41%) Workday
6 5 (3.68%) SAP
7 3 (2.21%) Aprimo
7 3 (2.21%) OneTrust
7 3 (2.21%) Optimizely
7 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.47%) Adyen
8 2 (1.47%) Databricks
9 1 (0.74%) Concur
9 1 (0.74%) iManage
9 1 (0.74%) Okta
9 1 (0.74%) SnapLogic