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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 419 382
Rank change year-on-year -51 -37 +26
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 176 104 212
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.35% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 0.93% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 68 126
10th Percentile £357 £348 £430
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £569
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -10.99% -3.19%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £675
90th Percentile £668 £658 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £556
% change year-on-year +5.00% -10.11% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.25 -
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 17,766 11,224 14,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.41% 37.90% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 7,582 9,970
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £632
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 274 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.55 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +29.60% +31.93% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.95
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.41% -25.42%

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 15 June 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 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 15 June 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 -49 146 £525 +1.55% 60
London -30 93 £525 +0.67% 27
UK excluding London -92 59 £525 +5.00% 46
Work from Home -50 50 £525 -1.18% 40
East of England -16 16 £550 -18.52% 7
North of England -67 12 £525 +16.67% 11
South East -60 11 £575 -8.00% 18
Midlands -55 8 £500 -0.74% 4
North West -38 6 £575 +27.78% 8
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 2
Wales -13 5 £340 +44.68% 4
Scotland -15 5 £358 - 4
East Midlands -20 5 £500 -13.04% 1
West Midlands -63 3 £555 +12.12% 3
South West -31 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 27 (15.34%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.41%) HCL Notes
3 6 (3.41%) Mendix
4 2 (1.14%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (7.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.14%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.57%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) Azure
2 79 (44.89%) Serverless
3 76 (43.18%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (38.64%) Azure Functions
5 67 (38.07%) Azure Logic Apps
6 50 (28.41%) Dynamics 365
7 40 (22.73%) Power Automate
7 40 (22.73%) Power Platform
8 38 (21.59%) Azure Monitor
9 37 (21.02%) Azure Event Grid
10 35 (19.89%) GitHub
11 34 (19.32%) Azure AKS
12 33 (18.75%) Entra ID
13 31 (17.61%) Azure Key Vault
14 30 (17.05%) PowerApps
15 27 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (15.34%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (14.77%) Azure API Management
17 19 (10.80%) PaaS
18 15 (8.52%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) SMS
2 2 (1.14%) HTTP
2 2 (1.14%) Network Security
2 2 (1.14%) VPN
3 1 (0.57%) DKIM
3 1 (0.57%) DMARC
3 1 (0.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (7.39%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.25%) Power BI
4 6 (3.41%) Oracle Database
4 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.84%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.27%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.70%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.57%) Metadata
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
9 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (8.52%) Git
2 4 (2.27%) NUnit
2 4 (2.27%) Selenium
3 3 (1.70%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.70%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.14%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.14%) JIRA
4 2 (1.14%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.57%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Moq
5 1 (0.57%) Postman
5 1 (0.57%) Serilog
5 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (19.89%) Finance
2 32 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.34%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.98%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.41%) Marketing
7 3 (1.70%) Law
8 2 (1.14%) Aviation
8 2 (1.14%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.14%) Legal
8 2 (1.14%) Local Government
8 2 (1.14%) Retail
9 1 (0.57%) Automotive
9 1 (0.57%) Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Billing
9 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (44.89%) Developer
2 32 (18.18%) Architect
3 29 (16.48%) Senior
4 28 (15.91%) Azure Developer
5 19 (10.80%) .NET Developer
5 19 (10.80%) Senior Developer
6 17 (9.66%) Lead
7 16 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (6.25%) C# Developer
9 11 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 10 (5.68%) Integration Engineer
10 10 (5.68%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 8 (4.55%) Consultant
11 8 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.98%) Integration Architect
12 7 (3.98%) Power Platform Developer
13 6 (3.41%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 6 (3.41%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (47.73%) .NET
2 47 (26.70%) REST
3 22 (12.50%) React
4 21 (11.93%) .NET Framework
5 20 (11.36%) RESTful
6 19 (10.80%) .NET Core
6 19 (10.80%) Kafka
7 18 (10.23%) OAuth
7 18 (10.23%) SOAP
8 16 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
8 16 (9.09%) OAuth2
9 15 (8.52%) Web Services
10 13 (7.39%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (6.82%) Entity Framework
12 10 (5.68%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.68%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (5.11%) HTML5 Canvas
13 9 (5.11%) JSON
14 8 (4.55%) JWT
14 8 (4.55%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (6.82%) Low-Code
3 11 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.84%) IoT
6 4 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.70%) BYOD
7 3 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Wiki
9 1 (0.57%) CMDB
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.57%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.57%) State Machine
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (63.07%) DevOps
2 88 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 58 (32.95%) Event-Driven
4 51 (28.98%) API Management
5 45 (25.57%) Microservices
6 39 (22.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (21.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 33 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
9 32 (18.18%) Observability
10 28 (15.91%) Analytics
11 26 (14.77%) Containerisation
12 25 (14.20%) Agile
12 25 (14.20%) Data Modelling
13 22 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (10.80%) Mentoring
14 19 (10.80%) Migration
15 18 (10.23%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (9.66%) CRM
16 17 (9.66%) ERP
17 16 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (57.39%) C#
2 50 (28.41%) SQL
3 30 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 27 (15.34%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.80%) Bicep
5 19 (10.80%) Python
6 17 (9.66%) Kusto Query Language
7 14 (7.95%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.68%) Java
9 6 (3.41%) Formula Language
9 6 (3.41%) LotusScript
10 5 (2.84%) X++
11 1 (0.57%) Korn
11 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.82%) Degree
4 9 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) GDPR
2 6 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.27%) QA
4 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.14%) FedRAMP
5 2 (1.14%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.14%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.57%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (20.45%) Docker
2 10 (5.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 32 (18.18%) Terraform
3 6 (3.41%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.84%) Grafana
4 5 (2.84%) Istio
5 4 (2.27%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.27%) linkerd
6 1 (0.57%) Argo
Vendors
1 86 (48.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.11%) Oracle
3 8 (4.55%) Databricks
4 6 (3.41%) Kofax
4 6 (3.41%) Lotus
5 5 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.27%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.27%) SAP
6 4 (2.27%) Workday
7 3 (1.70%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.14%) Foundry
8 2 (1.14%) Infor
9 1 (0.57%) Aderant
9 1 (0.57%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.57%) Concur
9 1 (0.57%) IBM
9 1 (0.57%) iManage
9 1 (0.57%) New Relic
9 1 (0.57%) Planview
9 1 (0.57%) SnapLogic