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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 411 332
Rank change year-on-year -67 -79 +83
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 142 93 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.34% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 0.90% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 56 125
10th Percentile £451 £355 £430
25th Percentile £488 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -15.63% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £609 £675
90th Percentile £671 £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 15,958 10,279 11,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.24% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,654 6,968 8,061
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 267 246
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%

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 1 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 1 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 87 £575 +9.89% 32
East of England -5 17 £550 -18.52% 2
North of England -58 15 £525 +16.67% 4
North West -46 9 £600 +33.33% 2
Midlands -51 8 £500 +1.01% 7
South East -61 7 £460 -24.90% 17
East Midlands -11 6 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 2
South West -40 5 £470 +25.33% 5
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 17 (11.97%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.75%) 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 9 (6.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.41%) 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
1 142 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (43.66%) Azure Logic Apps
3 56 (39.44%) Serverless
4 52 (36.62%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (32.39%) Azure Functions
6 40 (28.17%) Dynamics 365
7 39 (27.46%) Power Platform
8 30 (21.13%) Entra ID
9 29 (20.42%) Azure AKS
9 29 (20.42%) Azure Event Grid
10 27 (19.01%) PowerApps
11 24 (16.90%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (16.20%) GitHub
12 23 (16.20%) Power Automate
13 22 (15.49%) Azure Key Vault
14 20 (14.08%) AWS
14 20 (14.08%) Azure API Management
15 18 (12.68%) PaaS
16 17 (11.97%) Microsoft 365
17 16 (11.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.52%) HTTP
2 3 (2.11%) VPN
3 2 (1.41%) 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 (11.97%) Power BI
2 11 (7.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.63%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.82%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.41%) Metadata
6 2 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.70%) Redis
7 1 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (14.08%) Git
2 13 (9.15%) JIRA
3 3 (2.11%) SpecFlow
3 3 (2.11%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.41%) 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 (18.31%) Finance
2 22 (15.49%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.11%) Local Government
4 3 (2.11%) Marketing
4 3 (2.11%) Retail
5 2 (1.41%) Banking
5 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.41%) Law
5 2 (1.41%) Legal
6 1 (0.70%) Automotive
6 1 (0.70%) Billing
6 1 (0.70%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 66 (46.48%) Developer
2 27 (19.01%) Architect
3 22 (15.49%) Senior
4 19 (13.38%) .NET Developer
5 18 (12.68%) Azure Developer
6 14 (9.86%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (9.86%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 14 (9.86%) Lead
6 14 (9.86%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.75%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.34%) Integration Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Integration Architect
9 8 (5.63%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.23%) Technical Leader
11 5 (3.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (53.52%) .NET
2 43 (30.28%) REST
3 19 (13.38%) OAuth
4 18 (12.68%) .NET Framework
4 18 (12.68%) Kafka
4 18 (12.68%) RabbitMQ
4 18 (12.68%) SOAP
5 16 (11.27%) JSON
6 14 (9.86%) RESTful
7 13 (9.15%) Middleware
7 13 (9.15%) OAuth2
7 13 (9.15%) React
7 13 (9.15%) XML
8 11 (7.75%) .NET Core
8 11 (7.75%) Microsoft Graph
8 11 (7.75%) Web Services
9 9 (6.34%) OpenID
10 8 (5.63%) GraphQL
10 8 (5.63%) Swagger
11 7 (4.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 42 (29.58%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.97%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.04%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.93%) Low-Code
4 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.23%) IoT
6 5 (3.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (3.52%) Wiki
7 4 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.82%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.82%) NHS
8 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) BYOD
9 2 (1.41%) 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 89 (62.68%) DevOps
2 80 (56.34%) CI/CD
3 54 (38.03%) Event-Driven
4 46 (32.39%) Agile
5 39 (27.46%) API Management
5 39 (27.46%) Microservices
6 34 (23.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 29 (20.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (18.31%) Integration Patterns
9 24 (16.90%) Analytics
10 23 (16.20%) Containerisation
11 20 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (14.08%) Migration
11 20 (14.08%) Observability
12 19 (13.38%) Data Modelling
12 19 (13.38%) Mentoring
13 18 (12.68%) TDD
14 17 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (10.56%) AI
15 15 (10.56%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.07%) C#
2 28 (19.72%) SQL
3 25 (17.61%) JavaScript
4 22 (15.49%) Python
5 17 (11.97%) Bicep
6 15 (10.56%) TypeScript
7 13 (9.15%) Java
7 13 (9.15%) PowerShell
8 12 (8.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.82%) X++
10 1 (0.70%) Formula Language
10 1 (0.70%) LotusScript
10 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (33.80%) Security Cleared
2 44 (30.99%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.04%) Degree
4 9 (6.34%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.23%) QA
2 5 (3.52%) GDPR
3 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.11%) NIST
4 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (21.13%) Docker
2 10 (7.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (22.54%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.79%) Terraform
3 4 (2.82%) Grafana
3 4 (2.82%) Istio
3 4 (2.82%) Kustomize
3 4 (2.82%) linkerd
3 4 (2.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (52.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.93%) Oracle
3 6 (4.23%) MuleSoft
4 5 (3.52%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.52%) Workday
5 4 (2.82%) SAP
6 3 (2.11%) Databricks
6 3 (2.11%) Google
6 3 (2.11%) IBM
6 3 (2.11%) Informatica
6 3 (2.11%) TIBCO
6 3 (2.11%) WSO2
7 1 (0.70%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.70%) Concur
7 1 (0.70%) Foundry
7 1 (0.70%) iManage
7 1 (0.70%) Kofax
7 1 (0.70%) New Relic
7 1 (0.70%) Planview
7 1 (0.70%) SnapLogic