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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 406 364
Rank change year-on-year -62 -42 +65
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 143 90 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.34% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 0.91% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 54 121
10th Percentile £425 £353 £425
25th Percentile £488 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £675
90th Percentile £679 £663 £738
UK median daily rate £544 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +8.75% -13.04% -

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 15,383 9,918 12,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.66% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,344 6,690 8,678
10th Percentile £325 £313 £308
25th Percentile £415 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 255 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.04 £14.16
25th Percentile £23.17 £17.96 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.94% +15.91% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -34 90 £550 +7.68% 39
East of England -18 16 £550 -18.52% 6
North of England -62 15 £525 +16.67% 6
North West -34 9 £600 +33.33% 5
Midlands -54 9 £500 -0.74% 3
South East -57 7 £608 +3.40% 26
East Midlands -12 6 £500 -13.04% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 1
West Midlands -65 3 £555 +12.12% 2
South West -36 2 £450 +20.00% 3
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 (11.89%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.10%) HCL Notes
3 3 (2.10%) Mendix
4 1 (0.70%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (8.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.40%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.70%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 143 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (44.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 60 (41.96%) Serverless
4 55 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (33.57%) Azure Functions
6 41 (28.67%) Dynamics 365
7 38 (26.57%) Power Platform
8 32 (22.38%) Azure Event Grid
9 29 (20.28%) Power Automate
10 28 (19.58%) Azure AKS
10 28 (19.58%) Entra ID
11 27 (18.88%) PowerApps
12 26 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (16.78%) GitHub
14 20 (13.99%) Azure API Management
14 20 (13.99%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (12.59%) AWS
16 17 (11.89%) Azure Key Vault
16 17 (11.89%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.10%) SMS
1 3 (2.10%) VPN
2 2 (1.40%) HTTP
2 2 (1.40%) Network Security
3 1 (0.70%) DKIM
3 1 (0.70%) DMARC
3 1 (0.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.09%) Power BI
2 11 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (6.99%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.80%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.40%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.70%) Metadata
7 1 (0.70%) Redis
7 1 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (10.49%) Git
2 6 (4.20%) JIRA
3 4 (2.80%) SpecFlow
4 3 (2.10%) Selenium
5 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.40%) NUnit
5 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.70%) Moq
6 1 (0.70%) Postman
6 1 (0.70%) Serilog
6 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (20.98%) Finance
2 23 (16.08%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.69%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.80%) Financial Institution
4 4 (2.80%) Marketing
5 3 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.10%) Law
5 3 (2.10%) Local Government
5 3 (2.10%) Retail
6 2 (1.40%) Banking
6 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.40%) Legal
7 1 (0.70%) Automotive
7 1 (0.70%) Billing
7 1 (0.70%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (44.76%) Developer
2 29 (20.28%) Architect
3 25 (17.48%) Senior
4 21 (14.69%) Azure Developer
5 19 (13.29%) .NET Developer
6 16 (11.19%) Lead
7 15 (10.49%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 10 (6.99%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Integration Architect
12 6 (4.20%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 6 (4.20%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Technical Leader
13 5 (3.50%) Azure Architect
13 5 (3.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (49.65%) .NET
2 37 (25.87%) REST
3 16 (11.19%) Kafka
3 16 (11.19%) OAuth
3 16 (11.19%) React
3 16 (11.19%) RESTful
4 15 (10.49%) .NET Framework
4 15 (10.49%) SOAP
5 14 (9.79%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (9.09%) OAuth2
7 11 (7.69%) JSON
7 11 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 11 (7.69%) Web Services
8 9 (6.29%) .NET Core
8 9 (6.29%) OpenID
9 8 (5.59%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.59%) Middleware
9 8 (5.59%) XML
10 7 (4.90%) HTML5 Canvas
10 7 (4.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (23.78%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.39%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.29%) Low-Code
3 9 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.50%) IoT
5 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.80%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.10%) NHS
7 2 (1.40%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.40%) BYOD
7 2 (1.40%) Wiki
8 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.70%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.70%) State Machine
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (60.84%) DevOps
2 78 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 52 (36.36%) Event-Driven
4 40 (27.97%) API Management
5 37 (25.87%) Microservices
6 34 (23.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 32 (22.38%) Agile
8 27 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (16.78%) Integration Patterns
10 22 (15.38%) Analytics
10 22 (15.38%) Data Modelling
11 21 (14.69%) Containerisation
11 21 (14.69%) Mentoring
12 20 (13.99%) Observability
13 19 (13.29%) Migration
14 18 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (11.89%) CRM
16 16 (11.19%) Business Intelligence
16 16 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
17 15 (10.49%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 72 (50.35%) C#
2 31 (21.68%) SQL
3 26 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.99%) Python
5 15 (10.49%) Bicep
6 14 (9.79%) PowerShell
6 14 (9.79%) TypeScript
7 12 (8.39%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (7.69%) Java
9 4 (2.80%) X++
10 3 (2.10%) Formula Language
10 3 (2.10%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.70%) Korn
11 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (26.57%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.99%) Degree
4 9 (6.29%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.90%) GDPR
2 5 (3.50%) QA
3 3 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.10%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.10%) NIST
4 2 (1.40%) FedRAMP
4 2 (1.40%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (19.58%) Docker
2 10 (6.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (20.98%) Kubernetes
2 23 (16.08%) Terraform
3 5 (3.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.80%) Grafana
4 4 (2.80%) Istio
4 4 (2.80%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.80%) linkerd
Vendors
1 71 (49.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.20%) Oracle
3 5 (3.50%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.50%) Workday
4 4 (2.80%) Databricks
4 4 (2.80%) SAP
5 3 (2.10%) Kofax
5 3 (2.10%) Lotus
5 3 (2.10%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.40%) Foundry
7 1 (0.70%) Aderant
7 1 (0.70%) Adobe
7 1 (0.70%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.70%) Concur
7 1 (0.70%) Genesys
7 1 (0.70%) iManage
7 1 (0.70%) New Relic
7 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.70%) Planview
7 1 (0.70%) SnapLogic