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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 444 365
Rank change year-on-year -81 -79 +28
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 162 116 196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.35% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 0.95% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 73 121
10th Percentile £416 £351 £425
25th Percentile £455 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -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% -4.17%
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 18,840 12,272 13,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.95% 37.25% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,482 8,174 9,031
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
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 606 314 224
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.23% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.42 £55.63
90th Percentile £81.75 £70.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.05% -21.42% -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 29 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 29 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 -76 139 £550 +5.47% 100
London -53 91 £561 +6.86% 66
Work from Home -66 56 £500 - 58
UK excluding London -76 48 £500 +1.01% 52
North of England -58 13 £525 +16.67% 10
East of England -17 11 £550 -18.52% 6
South East -63 9 £460 -23.33% 14
Midlands -46 8 £500 +1.01% 10
North West -54 7 £575 +27.78% 8
East Midlands -10 6 £500 - 4
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 2
South West -40 5 £470 +25.33% 4
Scotland - 2 £500 - 5
Wales -17 1 £310 +31.91% 1
West Midlands -42 1 - - 6

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 19 (11.73%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.85%) CMS
4 2 (1.23%) Mendix
5 1 (0.62%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.62%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.62%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.62%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 13 (8.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.23%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.62%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 162 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (43.83%) Azure Logic Apps
3 61 (37.65%) Azure DevOps
3 61 (37.65%) Serverless
4 54 (33.33%) Azure Functions
5 50 (30.86%) Dynamics 365
6 43 (26.54%) Power Platform
7 35 (21.60%) Entra ID
8 33 (20.37%) Azure Event Grid
9 31 (19.14%) GitHub
10 30 (18.52%) PowerApps
11 29 (17.90%) Azure Monitor
12 28 (17.28%) Azure Key Vault
13 27 (16.67%) AWS
13 27 (16.67%) Azure AKS
14 26 (16.05%) Azure API Management
14 26 (16.05%) Power Automate
15 21 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.56%) HTTP
2 3 (1.85%) Network Security
2 3 (1.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.62%) DKIM
3 1 (0.62%) DMARC
3 1 (0.62%) Firewall
3 1 (0.62%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (11.73%) Power BI
3 9 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.70%) Metadata
5 5 (3.09%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.09%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.47%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.62%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 21 (12.96%) Git
2 13 (8.02%) JIRA
3 8 (4.94%) SpecFlow
4 5 (3.09%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.23%) TestRail
7 1 (0.62%) GitLab
7 1 (0.62%) NUnit
7 1 (0.62%) Postman
7 1 (0.62%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.05%) Finance
3 18 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.09%) Marketing
6 3 (1.85%) Legal
6 3 (1.85%) Local Government
6 3 (1.85%) Retail
7 2 (1.23%) Billing
7 2 (1.23%) Law
8 1 (0.62%) Automotive
8 1 (0.62%) Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.62%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.62%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.62%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 78 (48.15%) Developer
2 27 (16.67%) Architect
2 27 (16.67%) Azure Developer
3 25 (15.43%) Senior
4 18 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 17 (10.49%) .NET Developer
5 17 (10.49%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (8.02%) Lead
8 11 (6.79%) C# Developer
8 11 (6.79%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Power Platform Developer
10 8 (4.94%) Integration Specialist
11 7 (4.32%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Azure Specialist
12 6 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 6 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.09%) Dynamics 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (59.88%) .NET
2 60 (37.04%) REST
3 23 (14.20%) OAuth
3 23 (14.20%) Terraform
4 22 (13.58%) JSON
4 22 (13.58%) SOAP
5 19 (11.73%) Kafka
5 19 (11.73%) XML
6 18 (11.11%) .NET Framework
6 18 (11.11%) RESTful
7 17 (10.49%) Middleware
7 17 (10.49%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (9.88%) .NET Core
8 16 (9.88%) OpenAPI
8 16 (9.88%) Swagger
9 12 (7.41%) OAuth2
9 12 (7.41%) React
9 12 (7.41%) Web Services
10 11 (6.79%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (6.17%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 50 (30.86%) Cloud Native
2 24 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.79%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.94%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.70%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.70%) IoT
7 5 (3.09%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (3.09%) Wiki
8 4 (2.47%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.47%) NHS
9 3 (1.85%) BYOD
9 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.23%) Life Science
10 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (61.73%) DevOps
2 90 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 59 (36.42%) Event-Driven
4 55 (33.95%) Agile
5 49 (30.25%) API Management
6 41 (25.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 34 (20.99%) Microservices
8 32 (19.75%) Integration Patterns
9 28 (17.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (15.43%) Analytics
11 24 (14.81%) Containerisation
11 24 (14.81%) Observability
12 22 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (11.73%) AI
14 19 (11.73%) API Development
14 19 (11.73%) API Integration
14 19 (11.73%) Data Modelling
15 18 (11.11%) Migration
15 18 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 83 (51.23%) C#
2 39 (24.07%) SQL
3 28 (17.28%) JavaScript
4 26 (16.05%) Python
5 22 (13.58%) Bicep
6 15 (9.26%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (6.79%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.17%) Java
10 5 (3.09%) X++
11 1 (0.62%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.62%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.62%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.62%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (30.86%) Security Cleared
2 46 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.64%) Azure Certification
4 12 (7.41%) Degree
5 10 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.32%) QA
2 4 (2.47%) GDPR
3 3 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.85%) NIST
4 2 (1.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (17.90%) Docker
2 11 (6.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (19.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.70%) Grafana
3 5 (3.09%) Istio
3 5 (3.09%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.47%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.47%) linkerd
5 1 (0.62%) Argo
Vendors
1 88 (54.32%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.02%) Oracle
3 10 (6.17%) MuleSoft
4 7 (4.32%) Google
4 7 (4.32%) IBM
4 7 (4.32%) Informatica
4 7 (4.32%) SAP
4 7 (4.32%) TIBCO
4 7 (4.32%) WSO2
5 6 (3.70%) Workday
6 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.85%) Databricks
7 3 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.23%) Aprimo
8 2 (1.23%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.23%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.62%) Foundry
9 1 (0.62%) Infor
9 1 (0.62%) New Relic
9 1 (0.62%) Splunk