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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 364 399
Rank change year-on-year -63 +35 +98
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 111 142 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.28% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 84 133
10th Percentile £363 £483 £418
25th Percentile £413 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £683
90th Percentile £700 £701 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -18.40% +4.17% +9.09%
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 11,745 11,070 13,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.65% 35.90% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,996 7,359 10,084
10th Percentile £303 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 140 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% +10.00% +36.36%

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 November 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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -24 73 £500 -22.96% 41
Midlands -24 12 £449 -7.53% 6
East Midlands -11 9 £450 +21.62% 1
North West -19 6 £405 -35.20% 10
North of England -34 6 £405 -35.20% 14
South West +8 5 £375 - 9
East of England - 5 £725 -
South East -30 4 £600 - 20
West Midlands -24 3 £310 -48.33% 5
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
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 8 (7.21%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.70%) NServiceBus
3 2 (1.80%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.90%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Aladdin
1 5 (4.50%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.60%) Fidessa
2 4 (3.60%) thinkFolio
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 106 (95.50%) Azure
2 68 (61.26%) Azure Logic Apps
3 48 (43.24%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (36.04%) Serverless
5 36 (32.43%) Azure Monitor
6 35 (31.53%) Azure Functions
7 23 (20.72%) Azure API Management
7 23 (20.72%) Power Platform
8 21 (18.92%) Azure Key Vault
8 21 (18.92%) GitHub
9 20 (18.02%) PowerApps
10 18 (16.22%) Azure Event Grid
10 18 (16.22%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (15.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (15.32%) Entra ID
11 17 (15.32%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (14.41%) Power Automate
13 14 (12.61%) PaaS
14 10 (9.01%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (7.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.11%) Network Security
2 5 (4.50%) HTTP
3 4 (3.60%) Firewall
4 2 (1.80%) LAN
4 2 (1.80%) MPLS
4 2 (1.80%) SSL
4 2 (1.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.80%) WAN
5 1 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.12%) SQL Server
2 18 (16.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (7.21%) Power BI
4 4 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.70%) Metadata
5 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.80%) Redis
6 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.90%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Git
2 8 (7.21%) Postman
3 2 (1.80%) git-flow
3 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.80%) JIRA
3 2 (1.80%) JMeter
3 2 (1.80%) Locust
3 2 (1.80%) Selenium
3 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.90%) GitLab
4 1 (0.90%) Mocha
4 1 (0.90%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.90%) TestRail
General
1 36 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.12%) Finance
3 16 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.21%) Banking
4 8 (7.21%) Law
5 6 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.50%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Billing
8 3 (2.70%) Front Office
9 2 (1.80%) Local Government
9 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.80%) Marketing
10 1 (0.90%) Aviation
10 1 (0.90%) Electronics
10 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Retail
10 1 (0.90%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (53.15%) Developer
2 20 (18.02%) Architect
3 14 (12.61%) Integration Developer
3 14 (12.61%) Senior
4 13 (11.71%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (10.81%) Lead
6 11 (9.91%) Azure Developer
7 10 (9.01%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.31%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.50%) Node.js Developer
11 4 (3.60%) .NET Architect
11 4 (3.60%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Oracle Architect
11 4 (3.60%) Oracle Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.60%) Power Apps Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (44.14%) .NET
2 29 (26.13%) REST
3 23 (20.72%) .NET Core
4 21 (18.92%) SOAP
5 15 (13.51%) React
6 14 (12.61%) Node.js
7 13 (11.71%) JSON
8 12 (10.81%) .NET Framework
8 12 (10.81%) RESTful
9 11 (9.91%) AngularJS
9 11 (9.91%) OAuth
10 10 (9.01%) ARM Templates
11 9 (8.11%) YAML
12 8 (7.21%) Kafka
12 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Graph
12 8 (7.21%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (6.31%) HTML5 Canvas
14 6 (5.41%) PyTorch
14 6 (5.41%) TensorFlow
14 6 (5.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.21%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.41%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.41%) Data Fabric
5 6 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.41%) Low-Code
6 5 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.50%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.60%) Derivative
7 4 (3.60%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.70%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.70%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.90%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (67.57%) DevOps
2 62 (55.86%) CI/CD
3 41 (36.94%) API Management
4 38 (34.23%) Agile
5 34 (30.63%) Analytics
6 30 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (24.32%) Log Analytics
8 24 (21.62%) Event-Driven
9 23 (20.72%) Microservices
10 21 (18.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.61%) Scrum
13 13 (11.71%) DevSecOps
13 13 (11.71%) Test Automation
14 12 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (10.81%) Containerisation
14 12 (10.81%) RBAC
15 11 (9.91%) AI
15 11 (9.91%) Data Modelling
15 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 56 (50.45%) C#
2 44 (39.64%) SQL
3 30 (27.03%) JavaScript
4 26 (23.42%) Python
5 22 (19.82%) Bicep
6 15 (13.51%) PowerShell
7 13 (11.71%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.31%) Java
9 6 (5.41%) Bash
9 6 (5.41%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.50%) X++
11 3 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.80%) Formula Language
12 2 (1.80%) LotusScript
12 2 (1.80%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 22 (19.82%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.60%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.80%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.80%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.90%) Degree
5 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) GDPR
2 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.60%) MiFID
3 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.90%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.90%) NCSC
4 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (9.91%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.11%) Docker
3 5 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (24.32%) Terraform
2 7 (6.31%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.80%) Ansible
5 1 (0.90%) Grafana
5 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (45.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.91%) Oracle
3 10 (9.01%) Databricks
4 8 (7.21%) OpenAI
4 8 (7.21%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.60%) Portware
6 3 (2.70%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.70%) Informatica
6 3 (2.70%) SAP
6 3 (2.70%) Talend
7 2 (1.80%) Lotus
8 1 (0.90%) Charles River
8 1 (0.90%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.90%) iManage
8 1 (0.90%) Kofax
8 1 (0.90%) Northgate
8 1 (0.90%) Solace
8 1 (0.90%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.90%) webMethods
8 1 (0.90%) Workday