Azure Service Bus Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Azure Service Bus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 425 391
Rank change year-on-year -34 -34 +93
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 123 141 218
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.40% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 1.11% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 82 153
10th Percentile £354 £478 £416
25th Percentile £413 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £693 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,728 12,738 16,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.16% 35.70% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,318 8,408 11,463
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 184 297
10th Percentile £15.45 £17.66 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £52.33 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.67 £27.35 £21.35
% change year-on-year -17.11% +28.10% +13.87%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Service Bus job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Service Bus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England -55 110 £500 -20.00% 39
London +2 74 £500 -22.96% 20
Work from Home -5 56 £436 -25.79% 24
UK excluding London -54 33 £450 -25.00% 32
Midlands -16 14 £436 -10.10% 6
East Midlands -7 9 £450 +21.62% 2
North West -18 7 £500 - 6
North of England -43 7 £500 - 6
West Midlands -24 5 £425 -29.17% 4
East of England - 5 £725 - 2
South East -36 3 £616 +1.02% 12
Wales - 3 £310 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West -1 1 - - 3

Azure Service Bus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.44%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.63%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.81%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.81%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Aladdin
1 5 (4.07%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.25%) Fidessa
2 4 (3.25%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 119 (96.75%) Azure
2 70 (56.91%) Azure Logic Apps
3 56 (45.53%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 41 (33.33%) Serverless
5 35 (28.46%) Azure Functions
6 29 (23.58%) Azure Key Vault
6 29 (23.58%) GitHub
7 26 (21.14%) Power Platform
8 24 (19.51%) Azure API Management
8 24 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (18.70%) PowerApps
10 21 (17.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 21 (17.07%) Azure Event Grid
11 20 (16.26%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (16.26%) Entra ID
12 18 (14.63%) Power Automate
13 16 (13.01%) PaaS
14 11 (8.94%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (8.13%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.94%) Network Security
2 8 (6.50%) HTTP
3 6 (4.88%) Firewall
4 2 (1.63%) LAN
4 2 (1.63%) MPLS
4 2 (1.63%) VPN
4 2 (1.63%) WAN
5 1 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (17.07%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.50%) Power BI
4 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.25%) Metadata
4 4 (3.25%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.63%) Redis
7 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.81%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Git
2 9 (7.32%) Postman
3 4 (3.25%) JIRA
4 3 (2.44%) Selenium
5 2 (1.63%) git-flow
5 2 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.63%) JMeter
5 2 (1.63%) Locust
5 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.81%) GitLab
6 1 (0.81%) Mocha
6 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.81%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.81%) TestRail
General
1 34 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 20 (16.26%) Finance
4 9 (7.32%) Banking
5 8 (6.50%) Law
6 6 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Billing
8 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Front Office
9 2 (1.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.81%) Electronics
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Legal
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (53.66%) Developer
2 20 (16.26%) Architect
3 18 (14.63%) Senior
4 13 (10.57%) Azure Developer
4 13 (10.57%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (9.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 12 (9.76%) Integration Developer
5 12 (9.76%) Senior Developer
6 11 (8.94%) Lead
7 10 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (6.50%) .NET Developer
8 8 (6.50%) Node.js Developer
9 6 (4.88%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.07%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.07%) C# Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Power Apps Developer
11 4 (3.25%) .NET Architect
11 4 (3.25%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (43.09%) .NET
2 28 (22.76%) REST
3 25 (20.33%) .NET Core
4 20 (16.26%) SOAP
5 18 (14.63%) Node.js
6 17 (13.82%) AngularJS
6 17 (13.82%) React
7 14 (11.38%) .NET Framework
7 14 (11.38%) RESTful
8 12 (9.76%) HTML5 Canvas
8 12 (9.76%) JSON
8 12 (9.76%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (7.32%) OAuth
9 9 (7.32%) YAML
10 8 (6.50%) ARM Templates
10 8 (6.50%) Express.js
10 8 (6.50%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (5.69%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (5.69%) PyTorch
11 7 (5.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.69%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.88%) Data Fabric
5 6 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.88%) Low-Code
6 5 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.25%) Derivative
7 4 (3.25%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.44%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.44%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.63%) IVR
9 2 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (65.04%) DevOps
2 70 (56.91%) CI/CD
3 43 (34.96%) Agile
4 39 (31.71%) Analytics
5 38 (30.89%) API Management
6 32 (26.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (25.20%) Log Analytics
7 31 (25.20%) Microservices
8 26 (21.14%) Event-Driven
9 23 (18.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 19 (15.45%) Containerisation
11 16 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (13.01%) RBAC
11 16 (13.01%) Scrum
12 15 (12.20%) Observability
12 15 (12.20%) Test Automation
13 13 (10.57%) DevSecOps
14 12 (9.76%) AI
14 12 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
15 11 (8.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 64 (52.03%) C#
2 48 (39.02%) SQL
3 34 (27.64%) JavaScript
4 27 (21.95%) Python
5 25 (20.33%) Bicep
6 17 (13.82%) PowerShell
6 17 (13.82%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.69%) Java
8 6 (4.88%) Bash
9 5 (4.07%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (4.07%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.07%) X++
10 2 (1.63%) Formula Language
10 2 (1.63%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 27 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.25%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.25%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) Degree
4 2 (1.63%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) GDPR
2 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.25%) MiFID
3 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.63%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.81%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.81%) NCSC
4 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (8.94%) Active Directory
1 11 (8.94%) Docker
2 6 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (26.02%) Terraform
2 9 (7.32%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.07%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.25%) Ansible
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (44.72%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.76%) Databricks
3 9 (7.32%) OpenAI
3 9 (7.32%) Oracle
4 8 (6.50%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.25%) Portware
6 3 (2.44%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.44%) Informatica
6 3 (2.44%) SAP
6 3 (2.44%) Talend
7 2 (1.63%) Lotus
8 1 (0.81%) Ariba
8 1 (0.81%) Charles River
8 1 (0.81%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.81%) iManage
8 1 (0.81%) Kofax
8 1 (0.81%) Solace
8 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.81%) Workday