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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 376 378
Rank change year-on-year -58 +2 +97
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 110 131 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 1.19% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 75 136
10th Percentile £389 £513 £413
25th Percentile £413 £531 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £860 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +4.35%
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 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 11,806 11,023 13,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.13% 36.35% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,086 7,372 9,861
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 142 270
10th Percentile £14.83 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.94 £55.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £69.98 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -14 74 £500 -23.08% 18
Midlands -20 14 £436 -10.10% 14
East Midlands -9 9 £450 +21.62% 6
North West -9 7 £500 - 9
North of England -34 7 £500 - 17
West Midlands -22 5 £425 -29.17% 7
East of England - 5 £725 - 9
South East -49 3 £616 +1.02% 21
Yorkshire - 2 - - 7
South West -12 1 - - 8
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 11 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.64%) HCL Notes
4 3 (2.73%) Mendix
4 3 (2.73%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.91%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Aladdin
1 5 (4.55%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (3.64%) Fidessa
2 4 (3.64%) thinkFolio
3 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 106 (96.36%) Azure
2 65 (59.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 49 (44.55%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (39.09%) Serverless
5 38 (34.55%) Azure Functions
5 38 (34.55%) Azure Monitor
6 25 (22.73%) GitHub
7 24 (21.82%) Azure Key Vault
7 24 (21.82%) Power Platform
8 21 (19.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 21 (19.09%) Entra ID
8 21 (19.09%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (19.09%) PowerApps
9 20 (18.18%) Azure API Management
9 20 (18.18%) Azure Event Grid
10 18 (16.36%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (15.45%) Power Automate
12 16 (14.55%) PaaS
13 12 (10.91%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (10.00%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.36%) Network Security
2 6 (5.45%) Firewall
3 5 (4.55%) HTTP
4 2 (1.82%) LAN
4 2 (1.82%) MPLS
4 2 (1.82%) VPN
4 2 (1.82%) WAN
5 1 (0.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (16.36%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.18%) Power BI
4 4 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.64%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.73%) Metadata
5 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.82%) Redis
7 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.91%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Git
2 8 (7.27%) Postman
3 2 (1.82%) git-flow
3 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.82%) JIRA
3 2 (1.82%) JMeter
3 2 (1.82%) Locust
3 2 (1.82%) Selenium
3 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.91%) GitLab
4 1 (0.91%) Mocha
4 1 (0.91%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.91%) TestRail
General
1 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.00%) Finance
3 15 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.09%) Banking
5 6 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.64%) Law
8 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Billing
8 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.73%) Front Office
9 2 (1.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.91%) Aviation
10 1 (0.91%) Electronics
10 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Legal
10 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (56.36%) Developer
2 21 (19.09%) Architect
3 16 (14.55%) Senior
4 14 (12.73%) Azure Developer
5 13 (11.82%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (10.91%) Integration Developer
7 10 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 10 (9.09%) Lead
7 10 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.18%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) .NET Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Power Platform Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Azure Architect
11 5 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
12 4 (3.64%) .NET Architect
12 4 (3.64%) C# Developer
12 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Developer
12 4 (3.64%) Oracle Architect
12 4 (3.64%) Oracle Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (47.27%) .NET
2 26 (23.64%) REST
3 25 (22.73%) .NET Core
4 20 (18.18%) SOAP
5 19 (17.27%) React
6 16 (14.55%) Node.js
7 13 (11.82%) .NET Framework
7 13 (11.82%) AngularJS
8 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
8 11 (10.00%) RESTful
9 10 (9.09%) HTML5 Canvas
9 10 (9.09%) JSON
10 9 (8.18%) OAuth
11 8 (7.27%) PyTorch
11 8 (7.27%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (7.27%) TensorFlow
12 7 (6.36%) Kafka
13 5 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (4.55%) Express.js
13 5 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (7.27%) AI Agents
4 8 (7.27%) Low-Code
4 8 (7.27%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.45%) Data Fabric
5 6 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.55%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.64%) Derivative
7 4 (3.64%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.73%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (66.36%) DevOps
2 62 (56.36%) CI/CD
3 38 (34.55%) Agile
4 36 (32.73%) Analytics
4 36 (32.73%) API Management
5 27 (24.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (24.55%) Log Analytics
6 25 (22.73%) Event-Driven
6 25 (22.73%) Microservices
7 22 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 16 (14.55%) Containerisation
9 14 (12.73%) RBAC
10 13 (11.82%) AI
10 13 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (11.82%) Observability
10 13 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.82%) Scrum
11 11 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (9.09%) Data Management
12 10 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (55.45%) C#
2 45 (40.91%) SQL
3 33 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 23 (20.91%) Python
5 21 (19.09%) Bicep
6 13 (11.82%) PowerShell
7 12 (10.91%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.36%) Java
9 6 (5.45%) X++
10 5 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (4.55%) T-SQL
11 4 (3.64%) Formula Language
11 4 (3.64%) LotusScript
12 2 (1.82%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.82%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) Degree
4 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) GDPR
2 4 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.64%) MiFID
3 2 (1.82%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.91%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.91%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.91%) NCSC
4 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (10.91%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.00%) Docker
3 2 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (29.09%) Terraform
2 9 (8.18%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.64%) Ansible
5 1 (0.91%) Grafana
5 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 56 (50.91%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.91%) Databricks
3 11 (10.00%) Oracle
4 10 (9.09%) OpenAI
5 8 (7.27%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.64%) Lotus
6 4 (3.64%) Portware
7 3 (2.73%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.73%) Informatica
7 3 (2.73%) Kofax
7 3 (2.73%) Talend
8 2 (1.82%) SAP
9 1 (0.91%) Charles River
9 1 (0.91%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.91%) iManage
9 1 (0.91%) Solace
9 1 (0.91%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.91%) Workday