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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 398 392
Rank change year-on-year -57 -6 +84
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 131 137 216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.40% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.11% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 78 147
10th Percentile £393 £501 £417
25th Percentile £415 £552 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +2.39%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £849 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -23.00% +6.38% -2.08%
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 13,980 12,320 15,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.06% 36.28% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 8,197 10,978
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £414 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £733 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 175 271
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £27.50 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +8.35% +12.80%
75th Percentile £55.50 £45.59 £58.38
90th Percentile £76.90 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £24.18 £20.75
% change year-on-year +3.39% +16.53% +5.84%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -43 113 £500 -20.00% 41
London -7 80 £500 -22.96% 20
Work from Home -19 53 £500 -16.67% 27
UK excluding London -40 28 £481 -23.00% 29
Midlands -24 12 £449 -7.53% 3
East Midlands -13 7 £450 +21.62% 1
East of England -17 5 £725 - 2
West Midlands -24 5 £425 -29.17% 2
North West -25 5 £500 - 9
North of England -34 5 £500 - 10
South East -47 3 £616 -1.40% 10
Wales - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 1 - - 4

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 14 (10.69%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.34%) HCL Notes
3 6 (4.58%) Mendix
4 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.29%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.82%) Aladdin
3 4 (3.05%) Fidessa
3 4 (3.05%) thinkFolio
4 3 (2.29%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 127 (96.95%) Azure
2 74 (56.49%) Azure Logic Apps
3 56 (42.75%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (40.46%) Serverless
5 47 (35.88%) Azure Functions
6 38 (29.01%) Azure Monitor
7 35 (26.72%) GitHub
8 30 (22.90%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (22.14%) Azure Key Vault
10 28 (21.37%) Power Platform
11 27 (20.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 27 (20.61%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (19.85%) Power Automate
13 23 (17.56%) Azure API Management
13 23 (17.56%) Entra ID
14 22 (16.79%) Azure Event Grid
14 22 (16.79%) PowerApps
15 20 (15.27%) PaaS
16 14 (10.69%) Azure AKS
16 14 (10.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.11%) HTTP
2 7 (5.34%) Network Security
3 6 (4.58%) Firewall
4 2 (1.53%) LAN
4 2 (1.53%) MPLS
4 2 (1.53%) SMS
4 2 (1.53%) VPN
4 2 (1.53%) WAN
5 1 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (19.85%) SQL Server
3 13 (9.92%) Power BI
4 7 (5.34%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.05%) Metadata
6 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.53%) Redis
9 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.76%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Git
2 9 (6.87%) Postman
3 4 (3.05%) JIRA
4 3 (2.29%) Selenium
5 2 (1.53%) git-flow
5 2 (1.53%) GitLab
5 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.53%) JMeter
5 2 (1.53%) Locust
5 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.76%) Mocha
6 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.76%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.76%) TestRail
General
1 39 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.61%) Finance
3 18 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.63%) Banking
5 7 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.82%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.05%) Marketing
9 3 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Billing
9 3 (2.29%) Front Office
9 3 (2.29%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Electronics
10 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.76%) Military
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (48.09%) Developer
2 26 (19.85%) Architect
3 17 (12.98%) Senior
4 15 (11.45%) Azure Developer
5 13 (9.92%) Lead
5 13 (9.92%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (8.40%) .NET Developer
6 11 (8.40%) Power Platform Developer
7 10 (7.63%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 10 (7.63%) Integration Developer
7 10 (7.63%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.11%) Azure Architect
8 8 (6.11%) C# Developer
8 8 (6.11%) Node.js Developer
9 7 (5.34%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Consultant
10 5 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (45.04%) .NET
2 33 (25.19%) REST
3 28 (21.37%) .NET Core
4 19 (14.50%) Node.js
5 18 (13.74%) AngularJS
5 18 (13.74%) React
6 15 (11.45%) SOAP
7 14 (10.69%) .NET Framework
7 14 (10.69%) RESTful
8 13 (9.92%) HTML5 Canvas
9 12 (9.16%) JSON
9 12 (9.16%) OAuth
10 9 (6.87%) Kafka
11 8 (6.11%) Express.js
11 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (6.11%) PyTorch
11 8 (6.11%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (6.11%) TensorFlow
12 7 (5.34%) SignalR
12 7 (5.34%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.40%) Low-Code
4 9 (6.87%) Product Ownership
5 8 (6.11%) AI Agents
6 7 (5.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.82%) Data Fabric
7 5 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.05%) Derivative
8 4 (3.05%) Fixed Income
9 3 (2.29%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.53%) IVR
10 2 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (66.41%) DevOps
2 80 (61.07%) CI/CD
3 42 (32.06%) API Management
4 39 (29.77%) Microservices
5 36 (27.48%) Agile
6 35 (26.72%) Analytics
7 30 (22.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (20.61%) Event-Driven
9 24 (18.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 24 (18.32%) Log Analytics
10 23 (17.56%) Containerisation
11 20 (15.27%) RBAC
12 18 (13.74%) Observability
13 17 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (12.98%) Test Automation
14 16 (12.21%) Integration Patterns
15 15 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (10.69%) AI
17 13 (9.92%) Data Management
17 13 (9.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 72 (54.96%) C#
2 58 (44.27%) SQL
3 32 (24.43%) JavaScript
4 29 (22.14%) Bicep
5 19 (14.50%) Python
6 18 (13.74%) TypeScript
7 17 (12.98%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.34%) Formula Language
8 7 (5.34%) LotusScript
9 5 (3.82%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (3.05%) X++
11 3 (2.29%) Java
11 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.58%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.82%) Degree
5 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.05%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.53%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) GDPR
2 4 (3.05%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.05%) MiFID
2 4 (3.05%) QA
3 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (11.45%) Docker
2 14 (10.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (28.24%) Terraform
2 14 (10.69%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.05%) Ansible
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 67 (51.15%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.21%) Databricks
3 14 (10.69%) Oracle
4 10 (7.63%) OpenAI
5 8 (6.11%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.34%) Lotus
7 6 (4.58%) Kofax
8 4 (3.05%) Portware
9 3 (2.29%) Atlassian
9 3 (2.29%) Informatica
9 3 (2.29%) SAP
9 3 (2.29%) Talend
10 1 (0.76%) Ariba
10 1 (0.76%) Charles River
10 1 (0.76%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.76%) iManage
10 1 (0.76%) Solace
10 1 (0.76%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.76%) Workday