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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 410 343
Rank change year-on-year -71 -67 +59
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 142 94 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.34% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 0.92% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 54 108
10th Percentile £421 £353 £424
25th Percentile £458 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £622 £634 £675
90th Percentile £652 £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 15,971 10,257 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.19% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,675 6,951 7,933
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 272 218
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £83.36 £67.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.38 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +23.30% +11.52% -28.57%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 90 £575 +6.98% 30
North of England -65 16 £525 +16.67% 7
East of England -20 12 £550 -18.52% 6
North West -45 10 £600 +33.33% 4
South East -66 9 £460 -24.90% 7
Midlands -39 8 £500 +1.01% 8
East Midlands -11 6 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 3
South West -44 5 £470 +25.33% 3
West Midlands -59 1 - - 6
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 17 (11.97%) SharePoint
2 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.41%) Mendix
4 1 (0.70%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (7.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.41%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.70%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.70%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 142 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (43.66%) Azure Logic Apps
3 55 (38.73%) Serverless
4 51 (35.92%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (32.39%) Azure Functions
6 42 (29.58%) Dynamics 365
7 41 (28.87%) Power Platform
8 31 (21.83%) Entra ID
9 28 (19.72%) PowerApps
10 26 (18.31%) Azure Event Grid
11 25 (17.61%) Azure AKS
11 25 (17.61%) Power Automate
12 24 (16.90%) GitHub
13 23 (16.20%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (14.79%) AWS
14 21 (14.79%) Azure Key Vault
15 20 (14.08%) Azure API Management
16 18 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (11.97%) PaaS
18 16 (11.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.93%) HTTP
2 3 (2.11%) VPN
3 2 (1.41%) Network Security
4 1 (0.70%) DKIM
4 1 (0.70%) DMARC
4 1 (0.70%) Firewall
4 1 (0.70%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.38%) Power BI
2 11 (7.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (4.23%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.52%) Metadata
5 4 (2.82%) InfluxDB
5 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (14.08%) Git
2 13 (9.15%) JIRA
3 3 (2.11%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.41%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.41%) TestRail
5 1 (0.70%) NUnit
5 1 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (17.61%) Finance
2 23 (16.20%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.82%) Marketing
6 3 (2.11%) Legal
6 3 (2.11%) Local Government
6 3 (2.11%) Retail
7 2 (1.41%) Banking
7 2 (1.41%) Billing
7 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (0.70%) Automotive
8 1 (0.70%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (44.37%) Developer
2 27 (19.01%) Architect
3 23 (16.20%) Senior
4 18 (12.68%) .NET Developer
5 16 (11.27%) Azure Developer
5 16 (11.27%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (10.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 13 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (9.15%) Lead
8 11 (7.75%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.34%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (4.23%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Integration Architect
12 5 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Senior .NET Developer
12 5 (3.52%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.52%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (54.93%) .NET
2 48 (33.80%) REST
3 20 (14.08%) JSON
3 20 (14.08%) OAuth
4 19 (13.38%) SOAP
5 18 (12.68%) Kafka
5 18 (12.68%) RabbitMQ
6 17 (11.97%) .NET Framework
6 17 (11.97%) XML
7 15 (10.56%) Middleware
8 12 (8.45%) React
8 12 (8.45%) RESTful
9 11 (7.75%) .NET Core
9 11 (7.75%) OAuth2
10 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Graph
10 10 (7.04%) Web Services
11 9 (6.34%) GraphQL
11 9 (6.34%) JWT
12 8 (5.63%) OpenAPI
12 8 (5.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (30.28%) Cloud Native
2 21 (14.79%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.34%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.34%) Low-Code
4 8 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.23%) IoT
6 5 (3.52%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (3.52%) Wiki
7 4 (2.82%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.82%) NHS
8 3 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) BYOD
9 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.70%) CMDB
10 1 (0.70%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.70%) Life Science
10 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.70%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (60.56%) DevOps
2 74 (52.11%) CI/CD
3 53 (37.32%) Event-Driven
4 50 (35.21%) Agile
5 38 (26.76%) API Management
6 35 (24.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 35 (24.65%) Microservices
7 28 (19.72%) Integration Patterns
8 24 (16.90%) Analytics
8 24 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (14.79%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (14.79%) Containerisation
10 20 (14.08%) Data Modelling
10 20 (14.08%) Migration
10 20 (14.08%) Observability
11 18 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (12.68%) TDD
12 17 (11.97%) API Integration
12 17 (11.97%) Mentoring
12 17 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (45.77%) C#
2 29 (20.42%) SQL
3 26 (18.31%) JavaScript
4 20 (14.08%) Python
5 17 (11.97%) Bicep
6 15 (10.56%) TypeScript
7 12 (8.45%) PowerShell
8 11 (7.75%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (6.34%) Java
10 4 (2.82%) X++
11 1 (0.70%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.70%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (32.39%) Security Cleared
2 42 (29.58%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.93%) Azure Certification
3 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.23%) Degree
5 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.93%) QA
2 4 (2.82%) GDPR
3 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.11%) NIST
4 2 (1.41%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (19.01%) Docker
2 11 (7.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (19.72%) Kubernetes
2 20 (14.08%) Terraform
3 5 (3.52%) Grafana
4 4 (2.82%) Istio
4 4 (2.82%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.82%) linkerd
4 4 (2.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (52.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.75%) Oracle
3 8 (5.63%) MuleSoft
4 6 (4.23%) Google
4 6 (4.23%) IBM
4 6 (4.23%) Informatica
4 6 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.23%) TIBCO
4 6 (4.23%) Workday
4 6 (4.23%) WSO2
5 5 (3.52%) SAP
6 2 (1.41%) Databricks
7 1 (0.70%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.70%) Concur
7 1 (0.70%) iManage
7 1 (0.70%) Lotus
7 1 (0.70%) Okta
7 1 (0.70%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.70%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.70%) SnapLogic