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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 430 381
Rank change year-on-year -55 -49 +53
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 174 110 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 0.91% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 66 138
10th Percentile £397 £347 £430
25th Percentile £462 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £628 £588 £675
90th Percentile £671 £663 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £556
% change year-on-year +5.00% -10.11% -5.08%
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 18,565 12,152 14,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.62% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,331 8,124 10,096
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 312 357
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.14% -20.69%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -73 143 £550 +7.32% 58
London -39 91 £550 +5.47% 33
UK excluding London -90 58 £525 +5.00% 38
Work from Home -47 54 £525 +5.00% 31
East of England -13 16 £550 -18.52% 4
North of England -67 15 £525 +16.67% 4
North West -35 9 £600 +33.33% 3
Midlands -59 9 £500 -0.74% 3
East Midlands -10 6 £500 -13.04% 1
South East -57 6 £625 +6.43% 22
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 1
Scotland -5 5 £358 - 1
Wales -12 5 £340 +44.68% 1
West Midlands -66 3 £555 +12.12% 2
South West -38 2 £450 +20.00% 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 20 (11.49%) SharePoint
2 15 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.15%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.15%) Mendix
4 1 (0.57%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (7.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.15%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.57%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 174 (100.00%) Azure
2 78 (44.83%) Azure Logic Apps
3 73 (41.95%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (39.08%) Serverless
5 56 (32.18%) Azure Functions
6 47 (27.01%) Dynamics 365
7 45 (25.86%) Power Platform
8 38 (21.84%) Azure Event Grid
9 35 (20.11%) Azure Monitor
10 34 (19.54%) GitHub
11 33 (18.97%) Azure AKS
11 33 (18.97%) Entra ID
12 31 (17.82%) PowerApps
13 29 (16.67%) Power Automate
14 28 (16.09%) Azure Key Vault
15 27 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (13.79%) Azure API Management
17 23 (13.22%) Microsoft 365
18 22 (12.64%) AWS
19 17 (9.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) Network Security
1 3 (1.72%) SMS
1 3 (1.72%) VPN
2 2 (1.15%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) DKIM
3 1 (0.57%) DMARC
3 1 (0.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (9.20%) Power BI
3 13 (7.47%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.30%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.30%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.15%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.57%) Metadata
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
9 1 (0.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (10.92%) Git
2 10 (5.75%) JIRA
3 7 (4.02%) SpecFlow
4 4 (2.30%) NUnit
5 3 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.15%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.15%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.15%) Selenium
7 1 (0.57%) GitLab
7 1 (0.57%) Moq
7 1 (0.57%) Postman
7 1 (0.57%) Serilog
7 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (18.97%) Finance
2 24 (13.79%) Public Sector
2 24 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.30%) Marketing
5 3 (1.72%) Financial Institution
5 3 (1.72%) Law
5 3 (1.72%) Local Government
5 3 (1.72%) Retail
6 2 (1.15%) Banking
6 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.15%) General Ledger
6 2 (1.15%) Legal
7 1 (0.57%) Automotive
7 1 (0.57%) Billing
7 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.57%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 81 (46.55%) Developer
2 32 (18.39%) Architect
3 28 (16.09%) Senior
4 27 (15.52%) Azure Developer
5 20 (11.49%) .NET Developer
6 19 (10.92%) Lead
7 16 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (8.62%) Senior Developer
8 15 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (8.05%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 12 (6.90%) C# Developer
11 10 (5.75%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 9 (5.17%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (4.60%) Power Platform Developer
14 7 (4.02%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 7 (4.02%) Integration Architect
15 6 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 6 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 6 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (54.60%) .NET
2 49 (28.16%) REST
3 24 (13.79%) RESTful
4 22 (12.64%) .NET Core
5 21 (12.07%) .NET Framework
6 19 (10.92%) SOAP
7 18 (10.34%) Kafka
7 18 (10.34%) OAuth
7 18 (10.34%) React
8 16 (9.20%) Microsoft Graph
9 15 (8.62%) OAuth2
9 15 (8.62%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (8.62%) Web Services
10 12 (6.90%) AngularJS
11 11 (6.32%) JSON
12 9 (5.17%) Entity Framework
12 9 (5.17%) Middleware
12 9 (5.17%) Node.js
12 9 (5.17%) OpenID
12 9 (5.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 45 (25.86%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.60%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.87%) IoT
6 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.72%) BYOD
7 3 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.72%) NHS
8 2 (1.15%) Wiki
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.57%) State Machine
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (66.67%) DevOps
2 100 (57.47%) CI/CD
3 61 (35.06%) Event-Driven
4 51 (29.31%) Microservices
5 50 (28.74%) API Management
6 45 (25.86%) Agile
7 39 (22.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 35 (20.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 28 (16.09%) Analytics
11 26 (14.94%) Integration Patterns
12 25 (14.37%) Observability
13 23 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (12.64%) Data Modelling
14 22 (12.64%) Mentoring
15 21 (12.07%) Migration
16 19 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
17 18 (10.34%) CRM
17 18 (10.34%) ERP
17 18 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 91 (52.30%) C#
2 45 (25.86%) SQL
3 28 (16.09%) JavaScript
4 24 (13.79%) Python
5 20 (11.49%) Bicep
6 18 (10.34%) PowerShell
7 16 (9.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 15 (8.62%) Java
8 15 (8.62%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.87%) X++
10 2 (1.15%) Formula Language
10 2 (1.15%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.57%) Korn
11 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 42 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.77%) Degree
4 14 (8.05%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.02%) GDPR
2 6 (3.45%) QA
3 4 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.72%) NIST
5 2 (1.15%) FedRAMP
5 2 (1.15%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.15%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (21.26%) Docker
2 10 (5.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 31 (17.82%) Terraform
3 6 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.87%) Grafana
4 5 (2.87%) Istio
5 4 (2.30%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.30%) linkerd
6 1 (0.57%) Argo
Vendors
1 89 (51.15%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.02%) Databricks
3 6 (3.45%) Oracle
3 6 (3.45%) SAP
4 5 (2.87%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.87%) Workday
5 4 (2.30%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.72%) Foundry
6 3 (1.72%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.15%) Infor
7 2 (1.15%) Kofax
7 2 (1.15%) Lotus
8 1 (0.57%) Adobe
8 1 (0.57%) Concur
8 1 (0.57%) Genesys
8 1 (0.57%) IBM
8 1 (0.57%) iManage
8 1 (0.57%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.57%) New Relic
8 1 (0.57%) Planview