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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 442 360
Rank change year-on-year -55 -82 +48
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 165 111 193
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.34% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 0.91% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 66 116
10th Percentile £419 £347 £428
25th Percentile £458 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £675
90th Percentile £653 £681 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £600
% change year-on-year +5.82% -21.25% +1.05%
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 18,751 12,228 13,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.15% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,380 8,158 9,133
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 320 262
10th Percentile £15.80 £15.24 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.35
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.92
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.36% -24.48%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £54.69
90th Percentile £82.27 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -14.52%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -63 142 £550 +7.32% 83
London -49 90 £575 +6.98% 49
Work from Home -53 54 £500 - 42
UK excluding London -75 52 £500 +5.82% 45
North of England -51 16 £525 +16.67% 6
East of England -12 12 £550 -18.52% 5
North West -35 10 £600 +33.33% 4
South East -65 9 £460 -24.90% 15
Midlands -47 8 £500 +1.01% 10
East Midlands -16 6 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 2
South West -48 5 £470 +25.33% 4
Scotland -6 2 £500 - 1
Wales -17 1 £310 +31.91%
West Midlands -57 1 - - 8

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 18 (10.91%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.21%) Mendix
4 1 (0.61%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.61%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.21%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.61%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 165 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (42.42%) Azure Logic Apps
3 60 (36.36%) Serverless
4 59 (35.76%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (30.91%) Azure Functions
6 45 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
7 43 (26.06%) Power Platform
8 35 (21.21%) Entra ID
9 30 (18.18%) Azure Event Grid
9 30 (18.18%) GitHub
10 29 (17.58%) Azure AKS
10 29 (17.58%) Azure Key Vault
10 29 (17.58%) PowerApps
11 28 (16.97%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (15.15%) AWS
13 24 (14.55%) Power Automate
14 23 (13.94%) Azure API Management
15 21 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (12.12%) PaaS
17 19 (11.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.24%) HTTP
2 3 (1.82%) Network Security
2 3 (1.82%) VPN
3 1 (0.61%) DKIM
3 1 (0.61%) DMARC
3 1 (0.61%) Firewall
3 1 (0.61%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (10.91%) Power BI
3 8 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (4.24%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.64%) Metadata
6 4 (2.42%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.42%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.21%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 23 (13.94%) Git
2 13 (7.88%) JIRA
3 8 (4.85%) SpecFlow
4 4 (2.42%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.21%) TestRail
6 1 (0.61%) GitLab
6 1 (0.61%) NUnit
6 1 (0.61%) Postman
6 1 (0.61%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (16.97%) Finance
2 23 (13.94%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.42%) Marketing
6 3 (1.82%) Legal
6 3 (1.82%) Local Government
6 3 (1.82%) Retail
7 2 (1.21%) Banking
7 2 (1.21%) Billing
7 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.21%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.21%) Law
8 1 (0.61%) Automotive
8 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.61%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 74 (44.85%) Developer
2 28 (16.97%) Architect
3 27 (16.36%) Senior
4 24 (14.55%) Azure Developer
5 19 (11.52%) .NET Developer
6 17 (10.30%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 13 (7.88%) Lead
9 13 (7.88%) Senior Developer
10 11 (6.67%) C# Developer
11 9 (5.45%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (4.85%) Power Platform Developer
13 7 (4.24%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.24%) Integration Specialist
13 7 (4.24%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 6 (3.64%) Azure Specialist
14 6 (3.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 6 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
14 6 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (55.76%) .NET
2 59 (35.76%) REST
3 20 (12.12%) JSON
3 20 (12.12%) Kafka
3 20 (12.12%) SOAP
4 19 (11.52%) .NET Framework
4 19 (11.52%) OAuth
4 19 (11.52%) RESTful
5 18 (10.91%) .NET Core
5 18 (10.91%) RabbitMQ
6 17 (10.30%) XML
7 15 (9.09%) Middleware
7 15 (9.09%) React
8 13 (7.88%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (7.27%) OpenAPI
9 12 (7.27%) Swagger
9 12 (7.27%) Web Services
10 11 (6.67%) OAuth2
11 8 (4.85%) AngularJS
11 8 (4.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 51 (30.91%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.94%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.85%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.64%) IoT
7 5 (3.03%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (3.03%) Wiki
8 4 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.42%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.42%) NHS
9 3 (1.82%) BYOD
9 3 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Licensing
10 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.61%) State Machine
10 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (61.82%) DevOps
2 90 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 62 (37.58%) Event-Driven
4 55 (33.33%) Agile
5 43 (26.06%) API Management
6 42 (25.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 39 (23.64%) Microservices
8 31 (18.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (18.79%) Integration Patterns
9 27 (16.36%) Analytics
10 24 (14.55%) Containerisation
11 23 (13.94%) Observability
12 22 (13.33%) Migration
13 21 (12.73%) Data Modelling
13 21 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (11.52%) API Development
16 18 (10.91%) Mentoring
16 18 (10.91%) TDD
16 18 (10.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (47.27%) C#
2 37 (22.42%) SQL
3 28 (16.97%) JavaScript
4 24 (14.55%) Python
5 21 (12.73%) Bicep
6 15 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.48%) PowerShell
8 13 (7.88%) Java
8 13 (7.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.03%) X++
10 1 (0.61%) Formula Language
10 1 (0.61%) LotusScript
10 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (30.91%) Security Cleared
2 47 (28.48%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.48%) Azure Certification
4 12 (7.27%) Degree
5 8 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) QA
2 4 (2.42%) GDPR
3 3 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.82%) NIST
4 2 (1.21%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.21%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (17.58%) Docker
2 11 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (19.39%) Kubernetes
2 26 (15.76%) Terraform
3 6 (3.64%) Grafana
4 5 (3.03%) Istio
4 5 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.42%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.42%) linkerd
6 1 (0.61%) Argo
Vendors
1 84 (50.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.06%) Oracle
3 8 (4.85%) MuleSoft
4 7 (4.24%) SAP
5 6 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.64%) Workday
6 5 (3.03%) Google
6 5 (3.03%) IBM
6 5 (3.03%) Informatica
6 5 (3.03%) TIBCO
6 5 (3.03%) WSO2
7 4 (2.42%) Databricks
8 2 (1.21%) Infor
8 2 (1.21%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.61%) Adobe
9 1 (0.61%) Aprimo
9 1 (0.61%) Foundry
9 1 (0.61%) Kofax
9 1 (0.61%) Planview
9 1 (0.61%) Splunk