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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 368 390
Rank change year-on-year -77 +22 +79
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 108 144 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.47% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.30% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 85 134
10th Percentile £363 £483 £418
25th Percentile £413 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £681
90th Percentile £694 £701 £738
UK median daily rate £508 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -18.80% +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 11,544 11,091 14,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.64% 35.90% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,863 7,378 10,253
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
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 £645 £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 296 140 279
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.47
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £44.43 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.73 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £32.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +3.97% +46.19%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -18 72 £500 -22.84% 51
Midlands -18 12 £449 -7.53% 7
East Midlands -6 9 £450 +21.62% 2
North West -19 6 £405 -35.20% 10
North of England -33 6 £405 -35.20% 14
East of England - 5 £725 -
South West +9 4 £375 - 10
West Midlands -25 3 £310 -48.33% 5
South East -36 3 £554 -7.71% 21
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 7 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.78%) NServiceBus
3 2 (1.85%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Aladdin
1 5 (4.63%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.70%) Fidessa
2 4 (3.70%) thinkFolio
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 103 (95.37%) Azure
2 67 (62.04%) Azure Logic Apps
3 45 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (36.11%) Serverless
5 35 (32.41%) Azure Monitor
6 34 (31.48%) Azure Functions
7 23 (21.30%) Power Platform
8 22 (20.37%) Azure API Management
9 20 (18.52%) GitHub
9 20 (18.52%) PowerApps
10 19 (17.59%) Azure Key Vault
11 17 (15.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (15.74%) Azure Event Grid
11 17 (15.74%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (14.81%) Entra ID
12 16 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (14.81%) Power Automate
13 13 (12.04%) PaaS
14 9 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (6.48%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.33%) Network Security
2 5 (4.63%) HTTP
3 4 (3.70%) Firewall
4 2 (1.85%) LAN
4 2 (1.85%) MPLS
4 2 (1.85%) SSL
4 2 (1.85%) VPN
4 2 (1.85%) WAN
5 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.59%) SQL Server
2 17 (15.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (7.41%) Power BI
4 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.78%) Metadata
5 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.85%) Redis
6 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.93%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Git
1 8 (7.41%) Postman
2 2 (1.85%) git-flow
2 2 (1.85%) JIRA
2 2 (1.85%) JMeter
2 2 (1.85%) Locust
2 2 (1.85%) Selenium
2 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.93%) TestRail
General
1 36 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.59%) Finance
3 16 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.41%) Banking
4 8 (7.41%) Law
5 6 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.63%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.78%) Billing
8 3 (2.78%) Front Office
9 2 (1.85%) Local Government
9 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Electronics
10 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (51.85%) Developer
2 20 (18.52%) Architect
3 14 (12.96%) Integration Developer
3 14 (12.96%) Senior
4 13 (12.04%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (11.11%) Lead
6 10 (9.26%) Azure Developer
6 10 (9.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 9 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.48%) .NET Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Architect
10 4 (3.70%) Applications Developer
10 4 (3.70%) C# .NET Developer
10 4 (3.70%) C# Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Integration Architect
10 4 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Power Apps Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (43.52%) .NET
2 28 (25.93%) REST
3 22 (20.37%) .NET Core
4 21 (19.44%) SOAP
5 13 (12.04%) JSON
5 13 (12.04%) React
6 12 (11.11%) .NET Framework
6 12 (11.11%) Node.js
7 11 (10.19%) RESTful
8 10 (9.26%) AngularJS
8 10 (9.26%) ARM Templates
8 10 (9.26%) OAuth
9 9 (8.33%) YAML
10 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (6.48%) HTML5 Canvas
11 7 (6.48%) Kafka
11 7 (6.48%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (5.56%) ADO
12 6 (5.56%) XML
13 5 (4.63%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.56%) Low-Code
6 5 (4.63%) AI Agents
6 5 (4.63%) Data Fabric
6 5 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.63%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.63%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.70%) Derivative
7 4 (3.70%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.78%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.78%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (66.67%) DevOps
2 59 (54.63%) CI/CD
3 41 (37.96%) API Management
4 36 (33.33%) Agile
5 34 (31.48%) Analytics
6 28 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (25.00%) Log Analytics
8 22 (20.37%) Event-Driven
9 21 (19.44%) Microservices
10 20 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (17.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 14 (12.96%) Scrum
13 13 (12.04%) DevSecOps
14 12 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (11.11%) Test Automation
15 11 (10.19%) Containerisation
15 11 (10.19%) Data Modelling
15 11 (10.19%) Observability
15 11 (10.19%) RBAC
16 10 (9.26%) AI
Programming Languages
1 54 (50.00%) C#
2 43 (39.81%) SQL
3 28 (25.93%) JavaScript
4 25 (23.15%) Python
5 21 (19.44%) Bicep
6 15 (13.89%) PowerShell
7 12 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.48%) Java
9 6 (5.56%) Bash
9 6 (5.56%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.63%) X++
11 3 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.85%) Formula Language
12 2 (1.85%) LotusScript
12 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 20 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.85%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.85%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) GDPR
2 4 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.70%) MiFID
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (10.19%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.48%) Docker
3 5 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (22.22%) Terraform
2 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.63%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.93%) Ansible
3 1 (0.93%) Grafana
3 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (45.37%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.19%) Oracle
3 9 (8.33%) Databricks
4 8 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 7 (6.48%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.70%) Portware
7 3 (2.78%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.78%) Informatica
7 3 (2.78%) SAP
7 3 (2.78%) Talend
8 2 (1.85%) Lotus
9 1 (0.93%) Charles River
9 1 (0.93%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.93%) iManage
9 1 (0.93%) Kofax
9 1 (0.93%) Northgate
9 1 (0.93%) Solace
9 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.93%) webMethods
9 1 (0.93%) Workday