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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 426 352
Rank change year-on-year -63 -74 +46
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 143 92 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.33% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 0.89% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 52 109
10th Percentile £419 £351 £424
25th Percentile £455 £408 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £616 £641 £675
90th Percentile £650 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 16,032 10,294 11,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.31% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,712 6,972 7,902
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 547 275 212
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.29 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -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 22 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 22 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 -50 92 £563 +2.27% 38
North of England -55 14 £525 +16.67% 7
East of England -15 11 £550 -18.52% 6
Midlands -46 10 £500 +1.01% 9
South East -63 9 £460 -24.90% 10
East Midlands -11 8 £500 - 4
North West -43 8 £575 +27.78% 5
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 2
South West -42 5 £470 +25.33% 4
West Midlands -51 1 - - 5
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 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.40%) CMS
3 2 (1.40%) Mendix
4 1 (0.70%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.70%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.70%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.40%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.70%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.70%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (44.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 57 (39.86%) Serverless
4 55 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (34.27%) Azure Functions
6 46 (32.17%) Dynamics 365
7 42 (29.37%) Power Platform
8 32 (22.38%) Entra ID
9 29 (20.28%) Azure Event Grid
9 29 (20.28%) PowerApps
10 27 (18.88%) Azure Monitor
11 26 (18.18%) Power Automate
12 25 (17.48%) GitHub
13 24 (16.78%) Azure AKS
14 23 (16.08%) Azure API Management
15 22 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
16 21 (14.69%) AWS
17 17 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (11.89%) PaaS
18 16 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) HTTP
2 3 (2.10%) VPN
3 2 (1.40%) 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 (13.29%) Power BI
2 12 (8.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.50%) Metadata
4 4 (2.80%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.80%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (13.29%) Git
2 13 (9.09%) JIRA
3 4 (2.80%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.10%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.40%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.40%) TestRail
6 1 (0.70%) NUnit
6 1 (0.70%) Postman
6 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (17.48%) Finance
2 24 (16.78%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.50%) Marketing
6 3 (2.10%) Legal
6 3 (2.10%) Local Government
6 3 (2.10%) Retail
7 2 (1.40%) Banking
7 2 (1.40%) Billing
7 2 (1.40%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.40%) 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 65 (45.45%) Developer
2 28 (19.58%) Architect
3 22 (15.38%) Senior
4 18 (12.59%) Azure Developer
5 17 (11.89%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 16 (11.19%) .NET Developer
6 16 (11.19%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (9.09%) Lead
8 12 (8.39%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.29%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (5.59%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 5 (3.50%) Integration Architect
13 5 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (56.64%) .NET
2 50 (34.97%) REST
3 23 (16.08%) OAuth
4 21 (14.69%) JSON
5 20 (13.99%) SOAP
5 20 (13.99%) Terraform
6 18 (12.59%) Kafka
6 18 (12.59%) XML
7 17 (11.89%) .NET Framework
7 17 (11.89%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (11.19%) Middleware
9 12 (8.39%) OAuth2
10 11 (7.69%) React
10 11 (7.69%) RESTful
10 11 (7.69%) Web Services
11 9 (6.29%) .NET Core
11 9 (6.29%) GraphQL
11 9 (6.29%) JWT
11 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (6.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 43 (30.07%) Cloud Native
2 21 (14.69%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.99%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (6.29%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.59%) Low-Code
6 6 (4.20%) IoT
7 5 (3.50%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (3.50%) Wiki
8 4 (2.80%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.80%) NHS
9 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.40%) BYOD
10 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.40%) Life Science
10 2 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.70%) CMDB
11 1 (0.70%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (60.84%) DevOps
2 74 (51.75%) CI/CD
3 52 (36.36%) Agile
3 52 (36.36%) Event-Driven
4 42 (29.37%) API Management
5 34 (23.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 32 (22.38%) Microservices
7 30 (20.98%) Integration Patterns
8 24 (16.78%) Analytics
9 22 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (14.69%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (14.69%) Containerisation
10 21 (14.69%) Observability
11 19 (13.29%) API Integration
11 19 (13.29%) Migration
11 19 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (12.59%) Data Modelling
12 18 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (11.89%) CRM
14 16 (11.19%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 68 (47.55%) C#
2 31 (21.68%) SQL
3 28 (19.58%) JavaScript
4 21 (14.69%) Python
5 19 (13.29%) Bicep
6 17 (11.89%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.59%) Java
9 5 (3.50%) X++
10 1 (0.70%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.70%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.70%) Formula Language
10 1 (0.70%) LotusScript
10 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (32.87%) Security Cleared
2 42 (29.37%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.59%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.50%) Degree
6 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.90%) QA
2 4 (2.80%) GDPR
3 3 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.10%) NIST
4 2 (1.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (18.88%) Docker
2 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (18.88%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.50%) Grafana
3 4 (2.80%) Istio
3 4 (2.80%) Kustomize
3 4 (2.80%) linkerd
3 4 (2.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 78 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.69%) Oracle
3 8 (5.59%) MuleSoft
4 6 (4.20%) Google
4 6 (4.20%) IBM
4 6 (4.20%) Informatica
4 6 (4.20%) TIBCO
4 6 (4.20%) Workday
4 6 (4.20%) WSO2
5 5 (3.50%) SAP
5 5 (3.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.40%) Aprimo
6 2 (1.40%) Databricks
6 2 (1.40%) OneTrust
6 2 (1.40%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.70%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.70%) Concur
7 1 (0.70%) iManage
7 1 (0.70%) Okta
7 1 (0.70%) SnapLogic