Azure Service Bus Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure Service Bus skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 118 139
Rank change year-on-year -8 +21 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 5 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.23% 0.085% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 0.28% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £334 - £425
25th Percentile £378 £613 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% +41.18%
75th Percentile £488 £638 £675
90th Percentile £510 - -
England median daily rate £513 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 710 723 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.75% 30.71% 35.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 483 755
10th Percentile £313 £300 £267
25th Percentile £378 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £575 £588
90th Percentile £629 £650 £661
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 54
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.63 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.08 £17.09
Median hourly rate £18.87 £33.50 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year -43.67% +34.73% -0.54%
75th Percentile £69.35 £55.05 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.75 £70.98 £50.25
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% -8.20% +53.49%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Service Bus in the North West

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus in the North West over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the North West

Azure Service Bus
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Cheshire -15 2 - - 3
Manchester -3 1 £310 -50.40% 4
Merseyside - 1 £450 -
Azure Service Bus
England

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) git-flow
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Next.js
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) API Management
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft