Azure Service Bus Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure Service Bus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 124 129
Rank change year-on-year -26 +5 +63
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 12 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.38% 0.087% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 0.28% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile - £382 £372
25th Percentile £413 £414 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £485 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +21.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £495 £564 £430
90th Percentile £584 £601 £483
England median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,050 720 906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.21% 31.33% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 741 473 698
10th Percentile £281 £210 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £493 £454
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +8.54% -9.16%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £561
90th Percentile £675 £683 £677
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 25
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.32 £12.30
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% +9.41% +16.13%
75th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £65.30 £39.21 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Service Bus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Azure Service Bus job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure Service Bus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the Midlands

Azure Service Bus
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
East Midlands -13 7 £450 +21.62% 1
West Midlands -25 5 £425 -29.17% 2
Azure Service Bus
England

Azure Service Bus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Azure Functions
2 7 (58.33%) Azure Monitor
2 7 (58.33%) Serverless
3 6 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (33.33%) Azure API Management
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) GCP
5 3 (25.00%) Power Automate
5 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (8.33%) IaaS
6 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (25.00%) Metadata
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Integration Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Data Fabric
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Analytics
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Log Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) API Management
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) ETL
5 3 (25.00%) ETL Development
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Metadata Management
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Data Science
6 2 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (25.00%) X++
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Informatica
2 3 (25.00%) Talend