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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 443 369
Rank change year-on-year -67 -74 +63
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 159 122 199
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.37% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% 0.99% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 75 121
10th Percentile £418 £353 £430
25th Percentile £463 £407 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £604 £675
90th Percentile £651 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £600
% change year-on-year +1.01% -17.50% -
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 18,997 12,357 13,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.79% 37.43% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,598 8,222 8,954
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 614 307 208
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.22
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.80 £54.38 £60.72
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.67 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.25 £29.25
% change year-on-year +48.15% -30.77% +8.33%

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 11 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 11 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 -90 137 £550 +7.32% 50
London -56 91 £575 +9.52% 29
Work from Home -87 56 £500 - 31
UK excluding London -86 45 £500 +1.01% 31
East of England -26 11 £550 -18.52% 3
South East -54 10 £460 -23.33% 10
Midlands -46 9 £500 +1.01% 6
North of England -65 9 £575 +27.78% 9
North West -38 7 £575 +27.78% 7
East Midlands -9 6 £500 - 3
South West -48 5 £470 +25.33% 1
Yorkshire -38 2 £613 - 2
West Midlands -50 2 £625 +26.26% 3
Wales -16 1 £310 +31.91% 1
Scotland - 1 - -

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 16 (10.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.14%) CMS
3 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.26%) Mendix
4 2 (1.26%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.63%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 16 (10.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.14%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.26%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.63%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (43.40%) Azure Logic Apps
3 67 (42.14%) Serverless
4 60 (37.74%) Azure Functions
5 54 (33.96%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (33.96%) Dynamics 365
6 44 (27.67%) Power Platform
7 31 (19.50%) AWS
7 31 (19.50%) Azure Event Grid
8 28 (17.61%) PowerApps
9 27 (16.98%) GitHub
10 26 (16.35%) Entra ID
11 24 (15.09%) Azure AKS
11 24 (15.09%) Azure API Management
11 24 (15.09%) Power Automate
12 23 (14.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 21 (13.21%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (11.95%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (11.32%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (10.06%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.29%) HTTP
2 3 (1.89%) Network Security
2 3 (1.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.63%) DKIM
3 1 (0.63%) DMARC
3 1 (0.63%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (11.95%) Power BI
3 11 (6.92%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.03%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.77%) Metadata
6 5 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.52%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.52%) InfluxDB
7 4 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.26%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (11.95%) Git
2 13 (8.18%) JIRA
3 10 (6.29%) SpecFlow
4 5 (3.14%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.26%) TestRail
7 1 (0.63%) GitLab
7 1 (0.63%) NUnit
7 1 (0.63%) Postman
7 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.09%) Finance
3 20 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.14%) Marketing
6 3 (1.89%) Legal
6 3 (1.89%) Local Government
6 3 (1.89%) Retail
7 2 (1.26%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Automotive
8 1 (0.63%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Billing
8 1 (0.63%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.63%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 75 (47.17%) Developer
2 30 (18.87%) Architect
3 25 (15.72%) Senior
4 23 (14.47%) Azure Developer
5 20 (12.58%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (11.32%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 17 (10.69%) .NET Developer
8 14 (8.81%) Lead
9 12 (7.55%) C# Developer
10 11 (6.92%) Senior Developer
11 10 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (5.66%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (5.03%) Integration Specialist
13 8 (5.03%) Power Platform Developer
14 7 (4.40%) Azure Specialist
15 6 (3.77%) Backend Developer
15 6 (3.77%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 5 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
16 5 (3.14%) Integration Developer
16 5 (3.14%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (59.12%) .NET
2 56 (35.22%) REST
3 24 (15.09%) JSON
3 24 (15.09%) OAuth
3 24 (15.09%) Terraform
4 22 (13.84%) OpenAPI
4 22 (13.84%) Swagger
5 21 (13.21%) RESTful
6 20 (12.58%) Kafka
6 20 (12.58%) XML
7 19 (11.95%) Middleware
8 18 (11.32%) .NET Core
8 18 (11.32%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (8.81%) SOAP
10 11 (6.92%) GraphQL
10 11 (6.92%) JWT
10 11 (6.92%) OAuth2
10 11 (6.92%) React
11 10 (6.29%) .NET Framework
11 10 (6.29%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 50 (31.45%) Cloud Native
2 25 (15.72%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.40%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.40%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.14%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (3.14%) IoT
5 5 (3.14%) Wiki
6 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.52%) NHS
7 3 (1.89%) BYOD
7 3 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.89%) Life Science
8 2 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (58.49%) DevOps
2 92 (57.86%) CI/CD
3 62 (38.99%) Event-Driven
4 55 (34.59%) Agile
5 51 (32.08%) API Management
6 45 (28.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 34 (21.38%) Microservices
8 33 (20.75%) Integration Patterns
9 30 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (13.84%) AI
11 22 (13.84%) API Development
12 21 (13.21%) Containerisation
13 20 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (12.58%) CRM
13 20 (12.58%) Migration
13 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (12.58%) Test Automation
14 19 (11.95%) API Integration
14 19 (11.95%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 81 (50.94%) C#
2 40 (25.16%) SQL
3 28 (17.61%) JavaScript
3 28 (17.61%) Python
4 24 (15.09%) Bicep
5 16 (10.06%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.29%) Java
7 4 (2.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.52%) X++
8 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.63%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.63%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.06%) Azure Certification
4 14 (8.81%) Degree
5 10 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) QA
2 7 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.52%) GDPR
4 3 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.89%) NIST
5 2 (1.26%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (16.35%) Docker
2 11 (6.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (18.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.89%) Grafana
3 2 (1.26%) Istio
3 2 (1.26%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.63%) Argo
4 1 (0.63%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.63%) linkerd
Vendors
1 84 (52.83%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.81%) Oracle
3 11 (6.92%) MuleSoft
4 8 (5.03%) Google
4 8 (5.03%) IBM
4 8 (5.03%) Informatica
4 8 (5.03%) TIBCO
4 8 (5.03%) WSO2
5 7 (4.40%) SAP
6 6 (3.77%) Workday
7 3 (1.89%) Aprimo
7 3 (1.89%) Databricks
7 3 (1.89%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.89%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.89%) Optimizely
7 3 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.26%) Adyen
9 1 (0.63%) iManage
9 1 (0.63%) Okta
9 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic