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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 429 433
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 194 86 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 0.78% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 54 110
10th Percentile £355 £429 £412
25th Percentile £415 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £603 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.01% +0.42% +0.42%
75th Percentile £600 £661 £675
90th Percentile £668 £845 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £48.00 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £29.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.87% - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile £67.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £29.25 -

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 16,431 11,080 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.90% 38.11% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,210 7,785 10,216
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 217 352
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.50 £39.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £23.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +92.47% +32.62% -19.45%

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 31 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Top 15 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 31 March 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 -28 158 £500 -19.35% 57
London -6 106 £500 -21.57% 27
Work from Home -11 59 £500 -17.01% 42
UK excluding London -69 55 £500 -16.67% 43
Midlands -55 13 £455 +22.97% 9
South East -56 11 £643 +2.88% 7
North of England - 11 £500 - 13
East of England -29 8 £600 - 4
West Midlands -49 7 £460 +105.36% 3
Wales -6 6 £340 +112.50% 2
East Midlands -33 6 £450 -4.76% 6
North West - 6 £575 - 8
Yorkshire - 5 £457 - 4
Scotland +5 4 £358 - 7
South West -25 2 £450 +20.00% 2

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 36 (18.56%) SharePoint
2 17 (8.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.67%) HCL Notes
4 10 (5.15%) Mendix
5 3 (1.55%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.55%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (7.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.55%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.03%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.52%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 194 (100.00%) Azure
2 98 (50.52%) Azure DevOps
3 90 (46.39%) Serverless
4 83 (42.78%) Azure Functions
5 80 (41.24%) Azure Logic Apps
6 57 (29.38%) GitHub
7 56 (28.87%) Azure Monitor
8 51 (26.29%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (25.77%) Azure Key Vault
10 44 (22.68%) Entra ID
11 42 (21.65%) Power Platform
12 40 (20.62%) Dynamics 365
12 40 (20.62%) Power Automate
13 36 (18.56%) Azure Event Grid
14 35 (18.04%) Azure API Management
14 35 (18.04%) Microsoft 365
15 33 (17.01%) Azure AKS
16 30 (15.46%) PowerApps
17 29 (14.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 28 (14.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.12%) HTTP
2 6 (3.09%) Network Security
2 6 (3.09%) SMS
3 5 (2.58%) Firewall
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) MPLS
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (23.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 28 (14.43%) SQL Server
3 16 (8.25%) Power BI
4 11 (5.67%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.61%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.06%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.55%) Metadata
8 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.03%) Redis
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.76%) Git
2 4 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.06%) Selenium
3 3 (1.55%) JIRA
3 3 (1.55%) NUnit
3 3 (1.55%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.03%) GitLab
4 2 (1.03%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.03%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.52%) Mocha
5 1 (0.52%) Moq
5 1 (0.52%) Serilog
General
1 33 (17.01%) Public Sector
2 32 (16.49%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.46%) Finance
4 11 (5.67%) Financial Institution
5 7 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.61%) Marketing
6 6 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.58%) Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Aviation
8 3 (1.55%) Law
9 2 (1.03%) Legal
9 2 (1.03%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Billing
10 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (52.06%) Developer
2 34 (17.53%) Azure Developer
3 30 (15.46%) Architect
4 25 (12.89%) Senior
5 22 (11.34%) .NET Developer
6 19 (9.79%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (9.79%) Lead
7 17 (8.76%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.25%) C# Developer
9 15 (7.73%) Power Platform Developer
10 11 (5.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 10 (5.15%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (4.64%) Consultant
13 8 (4.12%) C# .NET Developer
13 8 (4.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 8 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.12%) Node.js Developer
13 8 (4.12%) Technical Leader
14 7 (3.61%) Azure Architect
14 7 (3.61%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (50.52%) .NET
2 53 (27.32%) REST
3 35 (18.04%) .NET Core
4 29 (14.95%) React
5 26 (13.40%) .NET Framework
6 25 (12.89%) RESTful
7 24 (12.37%) Microsoft Graph
8 23 (11.86%) AngularJS
8 23 (11.86%) Node.js
9 21 (10.82%) SOAP
10 19 (9.79%) Kafka
11 18 (9.28%) OAuth
12 17 (8.76%) Web Services
13 16 (8.25%) Entity Framework
13 16 (8.25%) OAuth2
14 15 (7.73%) HTML5 Canvas
15 13 (6.70%) JSON
16 12 (6.19%) ASP.NET Web API
16 12 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
17 10 (5.15%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.65%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.70%) Low-Code
3 12 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.12%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.55%) IoT
7 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.03%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.52%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.52%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.52%) State Machine
9 1 (0.52%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (71.65%) DevOps
2 113 (58.25%) CI/CD
3 60 (30.93%) API Management
3 60 (30.93%) Microservices
4 47 (24.23%) Event-Driven
5 42 (21.65%) Analytics
5 42 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (21.65%) Observability
6 37 (19.07%) Containerisation
7 35 (18.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 30 (15.46%) Integration Patterns
9 28 (14.43%) Agile
9 28 (14.43%) Log Analytics
10 24 (12.37%) Data Modelling
10 24 (12.37%) RBAC
11 22 (11.34%) Migration
11 22 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (10.82%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (9.28%) AI
13 18 (9.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (59.28%) C#
2 76 (39.18%) SQL
3 35 (18.04%) JavaScript
4 33 (17.01%) Bicep
5 32 (16.49%) PowerShell
6 23 (11.86%) TypeScript
7 22 (11.34%) Python
8 18 (9.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (5.67%) Formula Language
9 11 (5.67%) Java
9 11 (5.67%) LotusScript
10 4 (2.06%) X++
11 1 (0.52%) Korn
11 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 36 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.70%) Degree
4 8 (4.12%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.06%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.64%) GDPR
2 7 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.09%) QA
4 5 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.55%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.03%) FedRAMP
6 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.52%) NCSC
7 1 (0.52%) PMO
7 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (17.53%) Docker
2 17 (8.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (23.20%) Terraform
2 33 (17.01%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.58%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.06%) Ansible
4 4 (2.06%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) Istio
5 3 (1.55%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.55%) linkerd
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (49.48%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.31%) Databricks
3 13 (6.70%) OpenAI
3 13 (6.70%) Oracle
4 11 (5.67%) Lotus
5 10 (5.15%) Kofax
6 3 (1.55%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.55%) Informatica
6 3 (1.55%) SAP
6 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.55%) Talend
7 2 (1.03%) Foundry
7 2 (1.03%) Workday
8 1 (0.52%) Aderant
8 1 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.52%) Charles River
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic
8 1 (0.52%) Solace