Azure Service Bus Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Azure Service Bus skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 167 172
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +62
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 6 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.097% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.31% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 15
10th Percentile £334 - £425
25th Percentile £378 £575 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.13% +38.24%
75th Percentile £488 £631 £675
90th Percentile £510 £635 -
England median daily rate £513 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -14.58% +2.13% +6.82%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,408 1,296 1,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 35.23% 31.51% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 856 1,261
10th Percentile £300 £288 £265
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £620 £650 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 66
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.44 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -31.78% +43.33%
75th Percentile £67.25 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £84.25 £67.40 £66.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure Service Bus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Service Bus in the North of England

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Service Bus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the North of England

Azure Service Bus
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
North West -11 6 £450 -28.00% 14
Yorkshire -10 2 - - 2
Azure Service Bus
England

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) git-flow
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Next.js
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) API Management
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Product Management
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft