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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 413 344
Rank change year-on-year -53 -69 +78
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 143 95 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.34% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 0.93% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 56 109
10th Percentile £435 £355 £425
25th Percentile £470 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -15.63% +4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £609 £675
90th Percentile £669 £681 £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 15,974 10,263 11,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.20% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,659 6,965 7,964
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £422 £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 £643
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 267 239
10th Percentile £16.30 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +37.35% +9.24% -27.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £52.45
90th Percentile £83.67 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.15
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.41% -31.00%

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 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 7 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 -48 90 £575 +9.89% 53
North of England -63 15 £525 +16.67% 8
East of England -14 12 £550 -18.52% 4
North West -35 9 £600 +33.33% 5
South East -63 9 £460 -24.90% 16
Midlands -55 8 £500 +1.01% 7
East Midlands -9 6 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 3
South West -35 5 £470 +25.33% 6
West Midlands -65 2 £650 +31.31% 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 16 (11.19%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.70%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.70%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.70%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (6.99%) 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 57 (39.86%) Serverless
4 50 (34.97%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (32.87%) Azure Functions
6 41 (28.67%) Dynamics 365
7 39 (27.27%) Power Platform
8 30 (20.98%) Entra ID
9 29 (20.28%) Azure Event Grid
10 27 (18.88%) PowerApps
11 26 (18.18%) Azure AKS
12 24 (16.78%) GitHub
12 24 (16.78%) Power Automate
13 23 (16.08%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (15.38%) AWS
14 22 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
15 20 (13.99%) Azure API Management
16 18 (12.59%) PaaS
17 16 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
17 16 (11.19%) Microsoft Copilot
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 17 (11.89%) Power BI
2 12 (8.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.59%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.50%) Metadata
5 4 (2.80%) InfluxDB
6 3 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.70%) Redis
8 1 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (13.99%) Git
2 13 (9.09%) JIRA
3 3 (2.10%) SpecFlow
3 3 (2.10%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.40%) NUnit
5 1 (0.70%) Moq
5 1 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.70%) Selenium
5 1 (0.70%) Serilog
5 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.70%) TestRail
5 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (18.18%) Finance
2 20 (13.99%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.10%) Local Government
5 3 (2.10%) Marketing
5 3 (2.10%) Retail
6 2 (1.40%) Banking
6 2 (1.40%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.40%) Law
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%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 65 (45.45%) Developer
2 29 (20.28%) Architect
3 24 (16.78%) Senior
4 20 (13.99%) .NET Developer
5 17 (11.89%) Azure Developer
6 16 (11.19%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (10.49%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 14 (9.79%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (8.39%) Senior Developer
10 11 (7.69%) Lead
11 9 (6.29%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (5.59%) Integration Architect
12 8 (5.59%) Power Platform Developer
13 6 (4.20%) Software Engineer
14 5 (3.50%) C# Developer
14 5 (3.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
14 5 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.50%) Senior .NET Developer
14 5 (3.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (54.55%) .NET
2 47 (32.87%) REST
3 21 (14.69%) OAuth
4 20 (13.99%) Kafka
5 19 (13.29%) JSON
5 19 (13.29%) SOAP
6 18 (12.59%) RabbitMQ
7 17 (11.89%) .NET Framework
8 16 (11.19%) XML
9 15 (10.49%) Middleware
10 13 (9.09%) OAuth2
10 13 (9.09%) React
10 13 (9.09%) RESTful
11 11 (7.69%) .NET Core
12 10 (6.99%) GraphQL
12 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (6.99%) Swagger
12 10 (6.99%) Web Services
13 9 (6.29%) OpenAPI
13 9 (6.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.97%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.29%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.99%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.90%) Low-Code
4 7 (4.90%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.20%) IoT
6 5 (3.50%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (3.50%) Wiki
7 4 (2.80%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.80%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.80%) NHS
8 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) BYOD
9 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.70%) CMDB
10 1 (0.70%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.70%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (58.74%) DevOps
2 77 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 53 (37.06%) Event-Driven
4 47 (32.87%) Agile
5 41 (28.67%) API Management
6 34 (23.78%) Microservices
7 33 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 28 (19.58%) Integration Patterns
9 26 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (16.78%) Analytics
11 22 (15.38%) Containerisation
12 21 (14.69%) Migration
13 20 (13.99%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (13.29%) Data Modelling
14 19 (13.29%) Observability
15 18 (12.59%) TDD
16 17 (11.89%) Mentoring
17 16 (11.19%) API Integration
18 15 (10.49%) AI
18 15 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 66 (46.15%) C#
2 29 (20.28%) SQL
3 26 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.99%) Python
5 18 (12.59%) Bicep
6 16 (11.19%) TypeScript
7 12 (8.39%) PowerShell
8 11 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (5.59%) Java
10 4 (2.80%) X++
11 1 (0.70%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.70%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (33.57%) Security Cleared
2 44 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.20%) Degree
6 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.20%) QA
2 5 (3.50%) GDPR
3 3 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.10%) NIST
4 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.40%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (19.58%) Docker
2 10 (6.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (20.28%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.69%) Terraform
3 4 (2.80%) Grafana
3 4 (2.80%) Istio
3 4 (2.80%) Kustomize
3 4 (2.80%) linkerd
3 4 (2.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 72 (50.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.29%) Oracle
3 8 (5.59%) MuleSoft
4 5 (3.50%) Google
4 5 (3.50%) IBM
4 5 (3.50%) Informatica
4 5 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.50%) TIBCO
4 5 (3.50%) Workday
4 5 (3.50%) WSO2
5 4 (2.80%) SAP
6 3 (2.10%) Databricks
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%) Kofax
7 1 (0.70%) Lotus
7 1 (0.70%) SnapLogic