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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 420 396
Rank change year-on-year -2 -24 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 192 98 196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.32% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 0.86% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 53 127
10th Percentile £356 £476 £440
25th Percentile £415 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £688
90th Percentile £664 £855 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £625 £594
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -1.04%
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 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 15,992 11,457 14,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.57% 37.86% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,948 7,820 10,301
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £634
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £495
% change year-on-year -4.14% +0.10% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 181 348
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.09
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.13 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +38.54% +26.93% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.61 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year +80.36% +34.33% -15.53%

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 5 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK

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 5 March 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 -18 156 £500 -19.03% 67
London +2 104 £496 -18.35% 33
Work from Home -7 59 £500 -16.67% 40
UK excluding London -70 55 £500 -20.00% 46
Midlands -46 16 £461 -2.38% 11
South East -65 11 £643 +2.88% 12
North of England - 11 £480 - 13
East Midlands -22 9 £500 +5.82% 2
North West - 8 £575 - 9
East of England -21 7 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £460 - 9
Wales - 6 £370 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £454 - 2
Scotland +13 3 £358 - 6
South West - 1 - - 3

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 34 (17.71%) SharePoint
2 17 (8.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.21%) HCL Notes
4 9 (4.69%) Mendix
5 3 (1.56%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.56%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (6.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.08%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.52%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 192 (100.00%) Azure
2 94 (48.96%) Azure DevOps
3 89 (46.35%) Serverless
4 83 (43.23%) Azure Functions
5 77 (40.10%) Azure Logic Apps
6 60 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
7 58 (30.21%) GitHub
8 52 (27.08%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (26.56%) Azure Key Vault
10 43 (22.40%) Entra ID
11 38 (19.79%) Dynamics 365
11 38 (19.79%) Power Automate
11 38 (19.79%) Power Platform
12 34 (17.71%) Azure Event Grid
13 33 (17.19%) Azure API Management
14 32 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
15 31 (16.15%) Azure AKS
15 31 (16.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 29 (15.10%) PaaS
17 27 (14.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.17%) HTTP
2 6 (3.13%) Firewall
2 6 (3.13%) Network Security
2 6 (3.13%) SMS
3 2 (1.04%) LAN
3 2 (1.04%) MPLS
3 2 (1.04%) VPN
3 2 (1.04%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (23.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 28 (14.58%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.29%) Power BI
4 10 (5.21%) Oracle Database
5 9 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.65%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.56%) Metadata
9 3 (1.56%) Redis
9 3 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (9.38%) Git
2 7 (3.65%) Selenium
3 5 (2.60%) JIRA
4 4 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.08%) Postman
5 3 (1.56%) NUnit
5 3 (1.56%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.04%) git-flow
6 2 (1.04%) GitLab
6 2 (1.04%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.04%) JMeter
6 2 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.04%) Locust
7 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.52%) Mocha
7 1 (0.52%) Moq
7 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.52%) Serilog
7 1 (0.52%) TestRail
General
1 33 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 26 (13.54%) Finance
4 10 (5.21%) Financial Institution
5 9 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.65%) Marketing
7 6 (3.13%) Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Aviation
8 3 (1.56%) Law
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
9 2 (1.04%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 102 (53.13%) Developer
2 34 (17.71%) Azure Developer
3 27 (14.06%) Senior
4 26 (13.54%) Architect
5 20 (10.42%) .NET Developer
5 20 (10.42%) Lead
6 19 (9.90%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (7.81%) Power Platform Developer
9 14 (7.29%) C# Developer
10 11 (5.73%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 10 (5.21%) Consultant
11 10 (5.21%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 8 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 8 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.17%) Node.js Developer
12 8 (4.17%) Technical Leader
13 7 (3.65%) Azure Architect
13 7 (3.65%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (47.40%) .NET
2 52 (27.08%) REST
3 35 (18.23%) .NET Core
4 28 (14.58%) React
5 26 (13.54%) RESTful
6 25 (13.02%) .NET Framework
7 24 (12.50%) Node.js
8 22 (11.46%) AngularJS
8 22 (11.46%) Microsoft Graph
9 20 (10.42%) SOAP
10 19 (9.90%) Kafka
11 18 (9.38%) OAuth
11 18 (9.38%) Web Services
12 16 (8.33%) Entity Framework
13 15 (7.81%) HTML5 Canvas
13 15 (7.81%) OAuth2
14 11 (5.73%) JSON
14 11 (5.73%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (5.21%) ASP.NET Web API
16 9 (4.69%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.73%) Low-Code
4 8 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.08%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.56%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.52%) CMDB
9 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (69.79%) DevOps
2 109 (56.77%) CI/CD
3 59 (30.73%) API Management
4 57 (29.69%) Microservices
5 49 (25.52%) Analytics
6 44 (22.92%) Event-Driven
7 43 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (21.88%) Observability
9 37 (19.27%) Containerisation
10 35 (18.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 34 (17.71%) Log Analytics
12 29 (15.10%) Agile
13 28 (14.58%) Integration Patterns
14 25 (13.02%) RBAC
15 22 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (10.94%) Migration
16 21 (10.94%) Test Automation
17 19 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
17 19 (9.90%) Data Modelling
18 18 (9.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 111 (57.81%) C#
2 78 (40.63%) SQL
3 37 (19.27%) JavaScript
4 34 (17.71%) Bicep
5 31 (16.15%) PowerShell
6 26 (13.54%) TypeScript
7 21 (10.94%) Python
8 18 (9.38%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (5.21%) Formula Language
9 10 (5.21%) Java
9 10 (5.21%) LotusScript
10 5 (2.60%) X++
11 3 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 54 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.23%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.25%) Degree
4 8 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.08%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.25%) GDPR
2 8 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.60%) QA
4 3 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.04%) FedRAMP
5 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) PMO
6 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (17.19%) Docker
2 16 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (24.48%) Terraform
2 31 (16.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.08%) Ansible
4 4 (2.08%) Grafana
5 3 (1.56%) Istio
5 3 (1.56%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.56%) linkerd
6 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.46%) Databricks
3 13 (6.77%) OpenAI
4 10 (5.21%) Lotus
4 10 (5.21%) Oracle
5 9 (4.69%) Kofax
6 3 (1.56%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.56%) Informatica
6 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.56%) Talend
7 2 (1.04%) Foundry
7 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.52%) Aderant
8 1 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.52%) iManage
8 1 (0.52%) Infor
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.52%) Solace
8 1 (0.52%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.52%) Workday