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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 439 392
Rank change year-on-year -72 -47 +24
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 156 116 195
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.35% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 0.95% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 73 120
10th Percentile £415 £351 £425
25th Percentile £463 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -15.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £604 £675
90th Percentile £650 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £575
% change year-on-year +1.01% -13.91% -3.16%
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 18,749 12,200 13,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 37.26% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,413 8,127 9,000
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 313 224
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £81.55 £70.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.13 £19.14 £24.18
% change year-on-year +62.66% -20.86% -10.44%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -85 135 £550 +5.47% 80
London -55 90 £572 +8.95% 53
Work from Home -62 53 £525 +5.00% 48
UK excluding London -81 45 £500 +1.01% 42
East of England -16 11 £550 -18.52% 5
North of England -61 10 £575 +27.78% 9
South East -58 9 £460 -23.33% 11
Midlands -53 8 £500 +1.01% 7
North West -51 7 £575 +27.78% 7
East Midlands -10 6 £500 - 4
South West -39 5 £470 +25.33% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £613 - 2
Scotland - 2 £500 - 4
Wales -16 1 £310 +31.91% 2
West Midlands -53 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 15 (9.62%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.56%) CMS
3 3 (1.92%) Mendix
3 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.64%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.64%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.64%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.64%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 14 (8.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.28%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.64%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.64%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 156 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (47.44%) Azure Logic Apps
3 63 (40.38%) Serverless
4 56 (35.90%) Azure Functions
5 55 (35.26%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (33.97%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (28.21%) Power Platform
8 32 (20.51%) Azure Event Grid
9 31 (19.87%) PowerApps
10 27 (17.31%) AWS
10 27 (17.31%) Power Automate
11 26 (16.67%) Entra ID
11 26 (16.67%) GitHub
12 24 (15.38%) Azure AKS
12 24 (15.38%) Azure API Management
13 20 (12.82%) Azure Key Vault
13 20 (12.82%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 18 (11.54%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (10.26%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.77%) HTTP
2 3 (1.92%) Network Security
2 3 (1.92%) VPN
3 1 (0.64%) DKIM
3 1 (0.64%) DMARC
3 1 (0.64%) Firewall
3 1 (0.64%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.82%) Azure SQL Database
1 20 (12.82%) Power BI
2 9 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.85%) Metadata
3 6 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.56%) InfluxDB
5 4 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.92%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.64%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 21 (13.46%) Git
2 13 (8.33%) JIRA
3 8 (5.13%) SpecFlow
4 5 (3.21%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.28%) TestRail
7 1 (0.64%) GitLab
7 1 (0.64%) NUnit
7 1 (0.64%) Postman
7 1 (0.64%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (17.95%) Finance
1 28 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.90%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.21%) Marketing
5 3 (1.92%) Legal
5 3 (1.92%) Local Government
5 3 (1.92%) Retail
6 2 (1.28%) Billing
6 2 (1.28%) Law
7 1 (0.64%) Automotive
7 1 (0.64%) Banking
7 1 (0.64%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.64%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.64%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 73 (46.79%) Developer
2 28 (17.95%) Architect
3 25 (16.03%) Senior
4 20 (12.82%) Azure Developer
5 18 (11.54%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 17 (10.90%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (9.62%) .NET Developer
8 13 (8.33%) Lead
9 12 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (7.05%) C# Developer
10 11 (7.05%) Senior Developer
11 9 (5.77%) Integration Engineer
11 9 (5.77%) Power Platform Developer
12 8 (5.13%) Integration Specialist
13 7 (4.49%) Azure Specialist
14 5 (3.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.21%) Backend Developer
14 5 (3.21%) Dynamics 365 Architect
14 5 (3.21%) Integration Developer
14 5 (3.21%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (58.97%) .NET
2 53 (33.97%) REST
3 25 (16.03%) Terraform
4 22 (14.10%) JSON
5 21 (13.46%) OAuth
6 19 (12.18%) Kafka
6 19 (12.18%) RESTful
6 19 (12.18%) XML
7 18 (11.54%) Middleware
8 17 (10.90%) OpenAPI
8 17 (10.90%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (10.90%) Swagger
9 16 (10.26%) .NET Core
10 14 (8.97%) SOAP
11 12 (7.69%) React
12 10 (6.41%) .NET Framework
12 10 (6.41%) GraphQL
12 10 (6.41%) JWT
12 10 (6.41%) OAuth2
13 9 (5.77%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 48 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 23 (14.74%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.05%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (6.41%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.77%) Low-Code
6 7 (4.49%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.85%) IoT
8 5 (3.21%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (3.21%) Wiki
9 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.56%) NHS
10 3 (1.92%) BYOD
10 3 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.92%) Life Science
11 2 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (59.62%) CI/CD
2 92 (58.97%) DevOps
3 61 (39.10%) Event-Driven
4 56 (35.90%) Agile
5 48 (30.77%) API Management
6 43 (27.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 33 (21.15%) Integration Patterns
7 33 (21.15%) Microservices
8 30 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (13.46%) AI
10 21 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (13.46%) Containerisation
11 20 (12.82%) API Development
11 20 (12.82%) API Integration
11 20 (12.82%) Data Modelling
12 18 (11.54%) CRM
12 18 (11.54%) Migration
12 18 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (50.00%) C#
2 40 (25.64%) SQL
3 29 (18.59%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.31%) Python
5 24 (15.38%) Bicep
6 15 (9.62%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.41%) Java
8 5 (3.21%) X++
9 4 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.64%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.64%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.64%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.64%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.97%) Azure Certification
4 12 (7.69%) Degree
5 10 (6.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.49%) QA
2 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.56%) GDPR
3 3 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.92%) NIST
4 2 (1.28%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (16.67%) Docker
2 12 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (18.59%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.92%) Grafana
3 2 (1.28%) Istio
3 2 (1.28%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.64%) Argo
4 1 (0.64%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.64%) linkerd
Vendors
1 85 (54.49%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.97%) Oracle
3 10 (6.41%) MuleSoft
4 7 (4.49%) Google
4 7 (4.49%) IBM
4 7 (4.49%) Informatica
4 7 (4.49%) SAP
4 7 (4.49%) TIBCO
4 7 (4.49%) WSO2
5 6 (3.85%) Workday
6 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.92%) Aprimo
7 3 (1.92%) Databricks
7 3 (1.92%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.92%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.92%) Optimizely
8 2 (1.28%) Kofax
9 1 (0.64%) Adyen
9 1 (0.64%) Concur
9 1 (0.64%) iManage