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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 424 381
Rank change year-on-year -16 -43 +44
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 189 97 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.34% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 0.90% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 62 125
10th Percentile £346 £412 £422
25th Percentile £425 £489 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £668 £675 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
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 17,393 10,826 13,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.79% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,681 7,404 9,904
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 243 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.32 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.25 £66.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -33.08%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -52 154 £525 -7.49% 64
London -15 105 £525 -5.75% 29
Work from Home -39 58 £513 -10.87% 42
UK excluding London -64 54 £525 -8.70% 44
East of England -19 13 £550 -18.52% 4
North of England -62 12 £525 +16.67% 7
South East -55 11 £575 -8.00% 16
Midlands -59 7 £500 -2.44% 8
North West -33 6 £575 +27.78% 6
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 1
Wales -12 5 £340 +112.50% 1
Scotland -2 4 £358 - 5
East Midlands -23 4 £500 -13.04% 2
West Midlands -61 3 £463 -8.19% 6
South West -26 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 31 (16.40%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.29%) HCL Notes
3 10 (5.29%) Mendix
4 2 (1.06%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.06%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.53%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 189 (100.00%) Azure
2 91 (48.15%) Serverless
3 88 (46.56%) Azure DevOps
4 80 (42.33%) Azure Functions
5 76 (40.21%) Azure Logic Apps
6 51 (26.98%) Dynamics 365
7 45 (23.81%) Power Platform
8 43 (22.75%) Power Automate
9 41 (21.69%) Azure Monitor
9 41 (21.69%) GitHub
10 38 (20.11%) Azure Event Grid
11 36 (19.05%) Azure AKS
11 36 (19.05%) Azure Key Vault
11 36 (19.05%) Entra ID
12 33 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (17.46%) PowerApps
13 31 (16.40%) Microsoft 365
14 30 (15.87%) Azure API Management
15 23 (12.17%) PaaS
16 20 (10.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.70%) SMS
2 3 (1.59%) Network Security
3 2 (1.06%) HTTP
3 2 (1.06%) VPN
4 1 (0.53%) DKIM
4 1 (0.53%) DMARC
4 1 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (10.05%) SQL Server
3 15 (7.94%) Power BI
4 10 (5.29%) Oracle Database
5 7 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.12%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.59%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.53%) Metadata
9 1 (0.53%) Redis
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.53%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (7.94%) Git
2 4 (2.12%) NUnit
2 4 (2.12%) Selenium
3 3 (1.59%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.59%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.06%) GitLab
4 2 (1.06%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.06%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.53%) Moq
5 1 (0.53%) Postman
5 1 (0.53%) Serilog
5 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 42 (22.22%) Finance
2 32 (16.93%) Public Sector
2 32 (16.93%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.82%) Financial Institution
4 8 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.17%) Marketing
7 4 (2.12%) Banking
8 2 (1.06%) Aviation
8 2 (1.06%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.06%) Law
8 2 (1.06%) Legal
8 2 (1.06%) Local Government
8 2 (1.06%) Retail
9 1 (0.53%) Advertising
9 1 (0.53%) Automotive
9 1 (0.53%) Billing
9 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 85 (44.97%) Developer
2 38 (20.11%) Architect
3 31 (16.40%) Senior
4 29 (15.34%) Azure Developer
5 21 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 19 (10.05%) Senior Developer
7 18 (9.52%) Lead
8 17 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (7.41%) C# Developer
10 12 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (5.82%) Power Platform Developer
12 10 (5.29%) Consultant
12 10 (5.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 10 (5.29%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (5.29%) Microsoft 365 Developer
13 8 (4.23%) Azure Architect
13 8 (4.23%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 8 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (3.70%) Integration Architect
14 7 (3.70%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (51.32%) .NET
2 50 (26.46%) REST
3 28 (14.81%) .NET Core
4 27 (14.29%) React
5 21 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 21 (11.11%) OAuth
6 20 (10.58%) RESTful
7 19 (10.05%) OAuth2
8 18 (9.52%) Kafka
9 17 (8.99%) SOAP
10 16 (8.47%) Microsoft Graph
11 15 (7.94%) Entity Framework
11 15 (7.94%) Web Services
12 13 (6.88%) HTML5 Canvas
13 11 (5.82%) AngularJS
13 11 (5.82%) JWT
13 11 (5.82%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (5.29%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (4.76%) JSON
16 8 (4.23%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 42 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.94%) Low-Code
3 12 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (5.82%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.12%) IoT
6 4 (2.12%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.59%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.59%) BYOD
8 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Wiki
9 1 (0.53%) CMDB
9 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.53%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.53%) State Machine
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (66.67%) DevOps
2 101 (53.44%) CI/CD
3 61 (32.28%) Event-Driven
4 60 (31.75%) API Management
5 52 (27.51%) Microservices
6 45 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 36 (19.05%) Integration Patterns
9 32 (16.93%) Observability
10 31 (16.40%) Analytics
11 30 (15.87%) Data Modelling
12 28 (14.81%) Containerisation
13 25 (13.23%) Agile
13 25 (13.23%) Migration
13 25 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 21 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (10.05%) API Integration
16 18 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
17 17 (8.99%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 112 (59.26%) C#
2 67 (35.45%) SQL
3 36 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 29 (15.34%) Bicep
5 27 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 19 (10.05%) Python
7 17 (8.99%) Kusto Query Language
8 15 (7.94%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.82%) Java
10 10 (5.29%) Formula Language
10 10 (5.29%) LotusScript
11 6 (3.17%) X++
12 1 (0.53%) Korn
12 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (23.28%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.47%) Degree
4 13 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.29%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.29%) GDPR
2 7 (3.70%) QA
3 5 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.06%) FedRAMP
5 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.06%) NIST
5 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.06%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.53%) PMO
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (20.11%) Docker
2 13 (6.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (21.16%) Terraform
2 37 (19.58%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.65%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.12%) Grafana
4 4 (2.12%) Istio
4 4 (2.12%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.12%) linkerd
Vendors
1 95 (50.26%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.88%) Oracle
3 11 (5.82%) Databricks
4 10 (5.29%) Kofax
4 10 (5.29%) Lotus
5 5 (2.65%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.65%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.12%) SAP
6 4 (2.12%) Workday
7 3 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.06%) Foundry
8 2 (1.06%) Infor
9 1 (0.53%) Aderant
9 1 (0.53%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.53%) Concur
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) iManage
9 1 (0.53%) New Relic
9 1 (0.53%) Planview
9 1 (0.53%) SnapLogic