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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 407 414
Rank change year-on-year -41 +7 +61
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 122 152 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.42% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 1.19% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 91 146
10th Percentile £361 £463 £418
25th Percentile £413 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -25.25% - +4.35%
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 13,594 12,721 16,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.41% 35.29% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,210 8,376 11,811
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 168 308
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £14.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.32 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% +7.32% +40.91%
75th Percentile £47.12 £59.66 £62.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.94 £22.50
% change year-on-year -32.12% +37.50% +18.73%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -67 109 £504 -19.40% 99
London -12 72 £500 -22.84% 49
Work from Home -3 55 £450 -22.58% 54
UK excluding London -31 34 £449 -25.25% 58
Midlands -23 12 £449 -7.53% 7
East Midlands -8 9 £450 +21.62% 2
North West -16 6 £405 -35.20% 10
North of England -32 6 £405 -35.20% 14
South West +4 5 £375 - 11
East of England - 5 £725 -
West Midlands -26 3 £310 -48.33% 5
South East -33 3 £554 -7.71% 22
Wales - 3 £310 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 7 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.46%) NServiceBus
3 2 (1.64%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.64%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.82%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.10%) Aladdin
2 5 (4.10%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (3.28%) Fidessa
3 4 (3.28%) thinkFolio
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 117 (95.90%) Azure
2 72 (59.02%) Azure Logic Apps
3 52 (42.62%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (33.61%) Serverless
5 36 (29.51%) Azure Functions
6 35 (28.69%) Azure Monitor
7 27 (22.13%) Power Platform
8 24 (19.67%) GitHub
8 24 (19.67%) PowerApps
9 22 (18.03%) Azure API Management
10 20 (16.39%) Azure Key Vault
10 20 (16.39%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (15.57%) Azure Event Grid
11 19 (15.57%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (15.57%) Power Automate
12 18 (14.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 16 (13.11%) Entra ID
14 13 (10.66%) PaaS
15 9 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (7.38%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.20%) Network Security
2 8 (6.56%) HTTP
3 4 (3.28%) Firewall
4 2 (1.64%) LAN
4 2 (1.64%) MPLS
4 2 (1.64%) SSL
4 2 (1.64%) VPN
4 2 (1.64%) WAN
5 1 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.03%) SQL Server
2 21 (17.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (7.38%) Power BI
4 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.28%) Metadata
4 4 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.64%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.64%) Redis
6 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.82%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (9.02%) Git
2 9 (7.38%) Postman
3 4 (3.28%) JIRA
4 3 (2.46%) Selenium
5 2 (1.64%) git-flow
5 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.64%) JMeter
5 2 (1.64%) Locust
5 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.82%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.82%) GitLab
6 1 (0.82%) Mocha
6 1 (0.82%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.82%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.82%) TestRail
General
1 38 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.39%) Finance
3 19 (15.57%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.56%) Banking
4 8 (6.56%) Law
5 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.46%) Billing
8 3 (2.46%) Front Office
9 2 (1.64%) Local Government
9 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.82%) Electronics
10 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Legal
10 1 (0.82%) Military
10 1 (0.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 64 (52.46%) Developer
2 20 (16.39%) Architect
3 17 (13.93%) Senior
4 14 (11.48%) Integration Developer
5 13 (10.66%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (9.84%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 12 (9.84%) Lead
6 12 (9.84%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.20%) Azure Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Node.js Developer
10 7 (5.74%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.92%) Power Platform Developer
12 5 (4.10%) Applications Developer
12 5 (4.10%) Azure Architect
12 5 (4.10%) C# Developer
12 5 (4.10%) Power Apps Developer
13 4 (3.28%) .NET Architect
13 4 (3.28%) Integration Architect
13 4 (3.28%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (40.98%) .NET
2 31 (25.41%) REST
3 22 (18.03%) .NET Core
4 21 (17.21%) SOAP
5 16 (13.11%) Node.js
6 15 (12.30%) JSON
7 14 (11.48%) AngularJS
7 14 (11.48%) RESTful
8 13 (10.66%) React
9 12 (9.84%) .NET Framework
10 11 (9.02%) HTML5 Canvas
10 11 (9.02%) OAuth
11 10 (8.20%) ARM Templates
12 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (7.38%) YAML
13 8 (6.56%) Express.js
13 8 (6.56%) Kafka
13 8 (6.56%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (5.74%) SignalR
14 7 (5.74%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.56%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.92%) Data Fabric
5 6 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.92%) Low-Code
6 5 (4.10%) AI Agents
6 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.28%) Derivative
7 4 (3.28%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.46%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.46%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.64%) IVR
9 2 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.82%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (64.75%) DevOps
2 67 (54.92%) CI/CD
3 43 (35.25%) Agile
4 41 (33.61%) API Management
5 34 (27.87%) Analytics
6 30 (24.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (22.95%) Microservices
8 27 (22.13%) Log Analytics
9 23 (18.85%) Event-Driven
10 20 (16.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 20 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (13.93%) Scrum
12 15 (12.30%) Containerisation
13 14 (11.48%) RBAC
13 14 (11.48%) Test Automation
14 13 (10.66%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (10.66%) DevSecOps
14 13 (10.66%) Observability
15 12 (9.84%) Data Modelling
16 11 (9.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 60 (49.18%) C#
2 49 (40.16%) SQL
3 32 (26.23%) JavaScript
4 26 (21.31%) Python
5 22 (18.03%) Bicep
6 18 (14.75%) TypeScript
7 15 (12.30%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.74%) Java
9 6 (4.92%) Bash
9 6 (4.92%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.10%) X++
11 3 (2.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.64%) Formula Language
12 2 (1.64%) LotusScript
12 2 (1.64%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 25 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.28%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.28%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.64%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.82%) Degree
5 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) GDPR
2 4 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.28%) MiFID
3 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.82%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.82%) NCSC
4 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (9.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.56%) Docker
3 5 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (21.31%) Terraform
2 7 (5.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.64%) Ansible
5 1 (0.82%) Grafana
5 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (41.80%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.02%) Oracle
3 10 (8.20%) Databricks
4 8 (6.56%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.74%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.28%) Portware
6 4 (3.28%) SAP
7 3 (2.46%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.46%) Informatica
7 3 (2.46%) Talend
8 2 (1.64%) Lotus
9 1 (0.82%) Ariba
9 1 (0.82%) Charles River
9 1 (0.82%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.82%) iManage
9 1 (0.82%) Kofax
9 1 (0.82%) Solace
9 1 (0.82%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.82%) webMethods
9 1 (0.82%) Workday