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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 427 411
Rank change year-on-year -40 -16 +74
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 124 145 214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.40% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 1.13% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 86 149
10th Percentile £358 £488 £417
25th Percentile £410 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £602 £675 £675
90th Percentile £694 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +4.35%
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 13,736 12,878 16,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.37% 35.46% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,298 8,463 11,616
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 189 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +14.35% +22.50%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +16.09%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 25 November 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 -38 112 £500 -20.00% 38
London -3 75 £500 -22.84% 13
Work from Home +3 55 £436 -25.79% 23
UK excluding London -38 34 £450 -25.00% 33
Midlands -22 13 £447 -7.84% 4
East Midlands -5 9 £450 +21.62% 1
North West -14 7 £500 -20.00% 4
North of England -40 7 £500 -20.00% 7
East of England - 5 £725 - 2
West Midlands -19 4 £368 -38.75% 3
South West 0 3 £375 - 4
South East -38 3 £616 +1.02% 14
Wales - 3 £310 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1

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 10 (8.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.42%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.61%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.81%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.81%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.03%) Aladdin
2 5 (4.03%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (3.23%) Fidessa
3 4 (3.23%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 119 (95.97%) Azure
2 73 (58.87%) Azure Logic Apps
3 56 (45.16%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (33.06%) Serverless
5 39 (31.45%) Azure Monitor
6 36 (29.03%) Azure Functions
7 28 (22.58%) Power Platform
8 27 (21.77%) GitHub
9 25 (20.16%) Azure Key Vault
9 25 (20.16%) PowerApps
10 24 (19.35%) Azure API Management
11 22 (17.74%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (16.94%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (16.13%) Azure Event Grid
14 19 (15.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 19 (15.32%) Entra ID
14 19 (15.32%) Power Automate
15 16 (12.90%) PaaS
16 10 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (7.26%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) Network Security
2 8 (6.45%) HTTP
3 5 (4.03%) Firewall
4 2 (1.61%) LAN
4 2 (1.61%) MPLS
4 2 (1.61%) VPN
4 2 (1.61%) WAN
5 1 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (16.13%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.26%) Power BI
4 4 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.23%) Metadata
4 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.61%) Redis
6 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.81%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (8.87%) Git
2 9 (7.26%) Postman
3 4 (3.23%) JIRA
4 3 (2.42%) Selenium
5 2 (1.61%) git-flow
5 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.61%) JMeter
5 2 (1.61%) Locust
5 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.61%) 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 36 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.94%) Finance
3 20 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.45%) Banking
4 8 (6.45%) Law
5 6 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.42%) Billing
8 3 (2.42%) Front Office
9 2 (1.61%) Local Government
9 2 (1.61%) Marketing
10 1 (0.81%) Electronics
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
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 68 (54.84%) Developer
2 20 (16.13%) Architect
3 18 (14.52%) Senior
4 13 (10.48%) Azure Developer
4 13 (10.48%) Integration Developer
4 13 (10.48%) Senior Developer
4 13 (10.48%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (9.68%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 10 (8.06%) Lead
7 9 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) .NET Developer
8 8 (6.45%) Node.js Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Applications Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Power Apps Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.03%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.03%) C# Developer
11 4 (3.23%) .NET Architect
11 4 (3.23%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (44.35%) .NET
2 31 (25.00%) REST
3 23 (18.55%) .NET Core
4 21 (16.94%) SOAP
5 17 (13.71%) Node.js
6 15 (12.10%) AngularJS
6 15 (12.10%) React
7 14 (11.29%) .NET Framework
7 14 (11.29%) JSON
7 14 (11.29%) RESTful
8 12 (9.68%) HTML5 Canvas
8 12 (9.68%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (7.26%) ARM Templates
9 9 (7.26%) OAuth
9 9 (7.26%) YAML
10 8 (6.45%) Express.js
10 8 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (5.65%) Kafka
11 7 (5.65%) SignalR
11 7 (5.65%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.84%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.84%) Data Fabric
5 6 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.84%) Low-Code
6 5 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.03%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.03%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.23%) Derivative
7 4 (3.23%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.42%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.42%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.61%) IVR
9 2 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (65.32%) DevOps
2 67 (54.03%) CI/CD
3 43 (34.68%) Agile
4 38 (30.65%) API Management
5 37 (29.84%) Analytics
6 31 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (24.19%) Log Analytics
8 29 (23.39%) Microservices
9 24 (19.35%) Event-Driven
10 21 (16.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 17 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.90%) Containerisation
12 16 (12.90%) Scrum
13 15 (12.10%) Observability
13 15 (12.10%) RBAC
14 14 (11.29%) Test Automation
15 13 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (10.48%) DevSecOps
16 12 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 11 (8.87%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 65 (52.42%) C#
2 49 (39.52%) SQL
3 35 (28.23%) JavaScript
4 27 (21.77%) Python
5 23 (18.55%) Bicep
6 18 (14.52%) TypeScript
7 17 (13.71%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.65%) Java
9 6 (4.84%) Bash
9 6 (4.84%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (4.03%) X++
11 2 (1.61%) Formula Language
11 2 (1.61%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 27 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.61%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.81%) Degree
5 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) GDPR
2 4 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.23%) MiFID
3 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 (8.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.26%) Docker
3 6 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (23.39%) Terraform
2 7 (5.65%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.03%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.42%) Ansible
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (44.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.87%) Databricks
3 9 (7.26%) Oracle
4 8 (6.45%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.23%) Portware
6 3 (2.42%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.42%) Informatica
6 3 (2.42%) SAP
6 3 (2.42%) Talend
7 2 (1.61%) 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%) Northgate
8 1 (0.81%) Solace
8 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.81%) Workday