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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 419 393
Rank change year-on-year -36 -26 +92
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 123 146 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.40% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.13% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 85 150
10th Percentile £364 £485 £413
25th Percentile £413 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £693 £813 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -
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 13,903 12,948 15,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.09% 35.84% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,469 8,560 11,316
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 £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 184 295
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.66 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +18.20% +13.66%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £27.24 £21.05
% change year-on-year -15.56% +29.39% +9.27%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -56 110 £500 -20.00% 34
London -9 74 £500 -23.08% 15
Work from Home -7 54 £449 -24.46% 29
UK excluding London -53 33 £450 -25.00% 29
Midlands -16 14 £436 -10.10% 5
East Midlands -5 9 £450 +21.62% 1
North West -14 7 £500 - 6
North of England -36 7 £500 - 6
West Midlands -22 5 £425 -29.17% 4
East of England - 5 £725 - 2
South East -44 3 £616 +1.02% 9
Wales - 3 £310 - 4
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West -7 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 11 (8.94%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.25%) HCL Notes
4 3 (2.44%) Mendix
4 3 (2.44%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.81%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Aladdin
1 5 (4.07%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.25%) Fidessa
2 4 (3.25%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 119 (96.75%) Azure
2 70 (56.91%) Azure Logic Apps
3 56 (45.53%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (35.77%) Serverless
5 39 (31.71%) Azure Monitor
6 38 (30.89%) Azure Functions
7 30 (24.39%) GitHub
8 28 (22.76%) Power Platform
9 27 (21.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 25 (20.33%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (20.33%) PowerApps
11 22 (17.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 22 (17.89%) Azure Event Grid
12 21 (17.07%) Azure API Management
12 21 (17.07%) Entra ID
13 20 (16.26%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (16.26%) Power Automate
14 16 (13.01%) PaaS
15 12 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (8.94%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.32%) Network Security
2 8 (6.50%) HTTP
3 6 (4.88%) Firewall
4 2 (1.63%) LAN
4 2 (1.63%) MPLS
4 2 (1.63%) VPN
4 2 (1.63%) WAN
5 1 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (17.07%) SQL Server
3 10 (8.13%) Power BI
4 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.25%) Metadata
4 4 (3.25%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.25%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.63%) Redis
7 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.81%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Git
2 9 (7.32%) Postman
3 4 (3.25%) JIRA
4 3 (2.44%) Selenium
5 2 (1.63%) git-flow
5 2 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.63%) JMeter
5 2 (1.63%) Locust
5 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.81%) GitLab
6 1 (0.81%) Mocha
6 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.81%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.81%) TestRail
General
1 34 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Finance
3 19 (15.45%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.32%) Banking
5 6 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.07%) Law
7 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Billing
7 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.44%) Front Office
8 2 (1.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Aviation
9 1 (0.81%) Electronics
9 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Military
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (56.10%) Developer
2 20 (16.26%) Architect
3 18 (14.63%) Senior
4 14 (11.38%) Azure Developer
5 13 (10.57%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (9.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 12 (9.76%) Integration Developer
6 12 (9.76%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.94%) Lead
8 9 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) .NET Developer
9 8 (6.50%) Node.js Developer
9 8 (6.50%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.07%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.07%) C# Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Power Apps Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (45.53%) .NET
2 28 (22.76%) REST
3 26 (21.14%) .NET Core
4 20 (16.26%) React
4 20 (16.26%) SOAP
5 19 (15.45%) Node.js
6 18 (14.63%) AngularJS
7 14 (11.38%) .NET Framework
7 14 (11.38%) HTML5 Canvas
7 14 (11.38%) RESTful
8 12 (9.76%) JSON
8 12 (9.76%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (7.32%) OAuth
10 8 (6.50%) Express.js
10 8 (6.50%) PyTorch
10 8 (6.50%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (6.50%) TensorFlow
11 7 (5.69%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (5.69%) Kafka
11 7 (5.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.50%) AI Agents
4 8 (6.50%) Low-Code
5 6 (4.88%) Data Fabric
5 6 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.25%) Derivative
7 4 (3.25%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.44%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.63%) IVR
9 2 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (65.04%) DevOps
2 70 (56.91%) CI/CD
3 44 (35.77%) Agile
4 37 (30.08%) Analytics
5 36 (29.27%) API Management
6 32 (26.02%) Microservices
7 29 (23.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (22.76%) Log Analytics
9 26 (21.14%) Event-Driven
10 23 (18.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 20 (16.26%) Containerisation
12 17 (13.82%) RBAC
13 16 (13.01%) Scrum
14 15 (12.20%) Observability
15 14 (11.38%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (10.57%) AI
17 12 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 12 (9.76%) Test Automation
18 11 (8.94%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (54.47%) C#
2 51 (41.46%) SQL
3 37 (30.08%) JavaScript
4 25 (20.33%) Python
5 23 (18.70%) Bicep
6 17 (13.82%) TypeScript
7 14 (11.38%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.69%) Java
9 5 (4.07%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (4.07%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.07%) X++
10 4 (3.25%) Formula Language
10 4 (3.25%) LotusScript
11 3 (2.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.25%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.25%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) Degree
4 2 (1.63%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) GDPR
2 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.25%) MiFID
3 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.63%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.81%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.81%) NCSC
4 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (9.76%) Active Directory
1 12 (9.76%) Docker
2 3 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (26.83%) Terraform
2 10 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.07%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.25%) Ansible
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (47.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.57%) Databricks
3 11 (8.94%) Oracle
4 10 (8.13%) OpenAI
5 8 (6.50%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.25%) Lotus
6 4 (3.25%) Portware
7 3 (2.44%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.44%) Informatica
7 3 (2.44%) Kofax
7 3 (2.44%) SAP
7 3 (2.44%) Talend
8 1 (0.81%) Ariba
8 1 (0.81%) Charles River
8 1 (0.81%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.81%) iManage
8 1 (0.81%) Solace
8 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.81%) Workday