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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 446 357
Rank change year-on-year -75 -89 +65
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 158 111 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.34% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 0.88% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 66 127
10th Percentile £417 £358 £430
25th Percentile £463 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £575 £675
90th Percentile £650 £688 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £508 £600
% change year-on-year -1.48% -15.42% -

All Cloud Computing 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 19,058 12,598 13,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.71% 38.04% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,644 8,413 8,692
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 630 297 188
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.50 £16.21
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.00 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.10 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.38 £19.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +59.87% -42.42% +45.05%

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 October 2026.

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
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 October 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
England -79 136 £550 +5.47% 124
London -57 91 £550 +4.76% 70
Work from Home -79 52 £500 +14.29% 65
UK excluding London -90 44 £500 -1.48% 75
South East -55 13 £460 -24.90% 28
East of England -20 10 £550 -18.52% 4
Midlands -53 9 £500 -2.44% 10
North of England -70 8 £575 +27.78% 15
East Midlands -13 6 £500 -12.09% 1
North West -50 6 £575 +27.78% 7
South West -36 4 £470 +25.33% 3
Yorkshire -33 2 £588 - 7
West Midlands -42 2 £625 +24.07% 9
Scotland - 1 - - 7

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 15 (9.49%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.16%) CMS
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.27%) Mendix
4 2 (1.27%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.16%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.27%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 158 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (43.67%) Serverless
3 65 (41.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 63 (39.87%) Azure Functions
5 54 (34.18%) Dynamics 365
6 53 (33.54%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (29.11%) Power Platform
8 32 (20.25%) AWS
9 29 (18.35%) Azure Event Grid
9 29 (18.35%) PowerApps
10 26 (16.46%) GitHub
11 25 (15.82%) Power Automate
12 24 (15.19%) Entra ID
13 23 (14.56%) Azure AKS
13 23 (14.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 22 (13.92%) Azure API Management
15 21 (13.29%) Azure Key Vault
16 20 (12.66%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (12.03%) Microsoft Copilot
18 17 (10.76%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.96%) HTTP
2 4 (2.53%) Network Security
3 3 (1.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.63%) DKIM
4 1 (0.63%) DMARC
4 1 (0.63%) Firewall
4 1 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.63%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (11.39%) Power BI
3 11 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (4.43%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.80%) Metadata
5 6 (3.80%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.53%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.53%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.63%) Parquet
9 1 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (12.66%) Git
2 13 (8.23%) JIRA
3 11 (6.96%) SpecFlow
4 6 (3.80%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.27%) NUnit
6 2 (1.27%) TestRail
7 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) GitLab
7 1 (0.63%) JUnit
7 1 (0.63%) MSTest
7 1 (0.63%) Postman
7 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.63%) Selenium
7 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.09%) Finance
3 18 (11.39%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.43%) Marketing
6 3 (1.90%) Local Government
6 3 (1.90%) Retail
7 2 (1.27%) Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Legal
8 1 (0.63%) Automotive
8 1 (0.63%) Billing
8 1 (0.63%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Front Office
8 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.63%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 77 (48.73%) Developer
2 29 (18.35%) Architect
3 25 (15.82%) Senior
4 22 (13.92%) Azure Developer
4 22 (13.92%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (12.66%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 16 (10.13%) .NET Developer
7 14 (8.86%) Lead
8 11 (6.96%) C# Developer
8 11 (6.96%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Integration Specialist
10 8 (5.06%) Power Platform Developer
11 7 (4.43%) Azure Specialist
12 6 (3.80%) Backend Developer
12 6 (3.80%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Consultant
13 5 (3.16%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 5 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (57.59%) .NET
2 60 (37.97%) REST
3 26 (16.46%) OAuth
4 24 (15.19%) OpenAPI
4 24 (15.19%) Swagger
4 24 (15.19%) Terraform
5 23 (14.56%) JSON
6 22 (13.92%) Kafka
7 21 (13.29%) RESTful
7 21 (13.29%) XML
8 19 (12.03%) Middleware
9 18 (11.39%) .NET Core
9 18 (11.39%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (9.49%) SOAP
11 12 (7.59%) GraphQL
11 12 (7.59%) React
12 11 (6.96%) EDI
12 11 (6.96%) JWT
12 11 (6.96%) OAuth2
13 10 (6.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 50 (31.65%) Cloud Native
2 26 (16.46%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.43%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.43%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.16%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.53%) NHS
7 4 (2.53%) Wiki
8 3 (1.90%) BYOD
8 3 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.90%) IoT
8 3 (1.90%) Life Science
9 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (58.23%) CI/CD
2 89 (56.33%) DevOps
3 63 (39.87%) Event-Driven
4 56 (35.44%) Agile
5 49 (31.01%) API Management
6 48 (30.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 35 (22.15%) Microservices
8 33 (20.89%) Integration Patterns
9 28 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (13.92%) AI
12 21 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (13.29%) Test Automation
13 20 (12.66%) Containerisation
14 19 (12.03%) Analytics
14 19 (12.03%) API Development
14 19 (12.03%) CRM
15 18 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (11.39%) Migration
15 18 (11.39%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 82 (51.90%) C#
2 42 (26.58%) SQL
3 29 (18.35%) Python
4 28 (17.72%) JavaScript
5 25 (15.82%) Bicep
6 20 (12.66%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.96%) Java
8 4 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.53%) X++
9 1 (0.63%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.63%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.63%) C
9 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.13%) Azure Certification
4 13 (8.23%) Degree
5 10 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) QA
2 7 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.90%) GDPR
3 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.90%) NIST
4 2 (1.27%) SLA
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (16.46%) Docker
2 9 (5.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (18.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.90%) Grafana
3 2 (1.27%) Istio
3 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.63%) Argo
4 1 (0.63%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.63%) linkerd
Vendors
1 85 (53.80%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.23%) Oracle
3 12 (7.59%) MuleSoft
4 9 (5.70%) Google
4 9 (5.70%) IBM
4 9 (5.70%) Informatica
4 9 (5.70%) TIBCO
4 9 (5.70%) WSO2
5 5 (3.16%) Databricks
5 5 (3.16%) SAP
5 5 (3.16%) Workday
6 3 (1.90%) Aprimo
6 3 (1.90%) OneTrust
6 3 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.90%) Optimizely
6 3 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.27%) Adyen
8 1 (0.63%) Concur
8 1 (0.63%) Okta
8 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic