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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 431 389
Rank change year-on-year -46 -42 +44
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 173 103 208
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.34% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 0.91% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 65 126
10th Percentile £358 £346 £430
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £556
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.11% -5.08%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £675
90th Percentile £669 £654 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
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 17,967 11,310 14,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.81% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,996 7,618 10,029
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 595 278 365
10th Percentile £16.55 £15.22 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.75 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £20.77
% change year-on-year +94.60% -7.22% -23.07%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -49 143 £531 +3.66% 65
London -34 89 £525 +5.00% 35
UK excluding London -67 61 £525 +5.00% 48
Work from Home -54 49 £525 +5.00% 36
East of England -12 16 £550 -18.52% 6
North of England -60 14 £525 +16.67% 8
South East -63 11 £575 -6.12% 24
North West -35 8 £600 +33.33% 6
Midlands -58 8 £500 -0.74% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 1
Scotland -4 5 £358 - 2
Wales -12 5 £340 +44.68% 3
East Midlands -15 5 £500 -13.04% 1
West Midlands -59 3 £555 +12.12% 3
South West -33 2 £450 +20.00% 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 27 (15.61%) SharePoint
2 15 (8.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.89%) HCL Notes
3 5 (2.89%) Mendix
4 2 (1.16%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.16%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.16%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.58%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) Azure
2 80 (46.24%) Serverless
3 78 (45.09%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (39.88%) Azure Functions
4 69 (39.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 46 (26.59%) Dynamics 365
6 40 (23.12%) Power Platform
7 39 (22.54%) Azure Monitor
8 38 (21.97%) Azure Event Grid
9 37 (21.39%) GitHub
10 36 (20.81%) Power Automate
11 34 (19.65%) Azure AKS
11 34 (19.65%) Entra ID
12 33 (19.08%) Azure Key Vault
13 31 (17.92%) PowerApps
14 28 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
15 26 (15.03%) Azure API Management
16 19 (10.98%) PaaS
17 16 (9.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) SMS
2 3 (1.73%) Network Security
2 3 (1.73%) VPN
3 2 (1.16%) HTTP
4 1 (0.58%) DKIM
4 1 (0.58%) DMARC
4 1 (0.58%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (8.09%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.78%) Power BI
4 6 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.89%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.89%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.31%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.58%) Metadata
9 1 (0.58%) Redis
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.58%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (8.67%) Git
2 4 (2.31%) NUnit
2 4 (2.31%) Selenium
3 3 (1.73%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.16%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.16%) JIRA
4 2 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.58%) GitLab
5 1 (0.58%) Moq
5 1 (0.58%) Postman
5 1 (0.58%) Serilog
5 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (19.65%) Finance
2 31 (17.92%) Public Sector
3 23 (13.29%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.47%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.89%) Marketing
7 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.73%) Law
7 3 (1.73%) Local Government
8 2 (1.16%) Aviation
8 2 (1.16%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.16%) Legal
8 2 (1.16%) Retail
9 1 (0.58%) Automotive
9 1 (0.58%) Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Billing
9 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (45.09%) Developer
2 35 (20.23%) Architect
3 30 (17.34%) Senior
4 28 (16.18%) Azure Developer
5 19 (10.98%) .NET Developer
5 19 (10.98%) Senior Developer
6 17 (9.83%) Lead
7 15 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (8.67%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (6.36%) C# Developer
8 11 (6.36%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 10 (5.78%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (5.78%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 8 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.05%) Consultant
11 7 (4.05%) Integration Architect
12 6 (3.47%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.47%) Platform Architect
12 6 (3.47%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (3.47%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (48.55%) .NET
2 47 (27.17%) REST
3 21 (12.14%) .NET Framework
3 21 (12.14%) React
3 21 (12.14%) RESTful
4 20 (11.56%) .NET Core
5 18 (10.40%) Kafka
5 18 (10.40%) OAuth
5 18 (10.40%) SOAP
6 16 (9.25%) Microsoft Graph
6 16 (9.25%) OAuth2
7 15 (8.67%) Web Services
8 13 (7.51%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (6.94%) Entity Framework
10 10 (5.78%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.78%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (5.78%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (5.20%) JSON
12 8 (4.62%) Middleware
12 8 (4.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.54%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.09%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.94%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.36%) Low-Code
5 9 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.89%) IoT
7 4 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.31%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.73%) BYOD
8 3 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.16%) NHS
9 2 (1.16%) Wiki
10 1 (0.58%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.58%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (61.85%) DevOps
2 90 (52.02%) CI/CD
3 58 (33.53%) Event-Driven
4 55 (31.79%) API Management
5 47 (27.17%) Microservices
6 39 (22.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (21.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 32 (18.50%) Observability
9 29 (16.76%) Analytics
10 28 (16.18%) Containerisation
10 28 (16.18%) Integration Patterns
11 27 (15.61%) Agile
11 27 (15.61%) Data Modelling
12 22 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (11.56%) Mentoring
13 20 (11.56%) Migration
14 18 (10.40%) CRM
14 18 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (9.83%) API Integration
15 17 (9.83%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 97 (56.07%) C#
2 52 (30.06%) SQL
3 32 (18.50%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.72%) PowerShell
5 20 (11.56%) Python
6 19 (10.98%) Bicep
7 17 (9.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 15 (8.67%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.78%) Java
10 5 (2.89%) Formula Language
10 5 (2.89%) LotusScript
10 5 (2.89%) X++
11 1 (0.58%) Korn
11 1 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (24.28%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.51%) Degree
4 9 (5.20%) Azure Certification
4 9 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.20%) GDPR
2 6 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.89%) QA
4 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.73%) NIST
6 2 (1.16%) FedRAMP
6 2 (1.16%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.16%) SLA
7 1 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.58%) PMO
7 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (21.39%) Docker
2 11 (6.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (21.39%) Kubernetes
2 32 (18.50%) Terraform
3 6 (3.47%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.89%) Grafana
4 5 (2.89%) Istio
5 4 (2.31%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.31%) linkerd
6 1 (0.58%) Argo
Vendors
1 84 (48.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.62%) Databricks
2 8 (4.62%) Oracle
3 5 (2.89%) Kofax
3 5 (2.89%) Lotus
3 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.31%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.31%) SAP
4 4 (2.31%) Workday
5 3 (1.73%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.16%) Foundry
6 2 (1.16%) Infor
7 1 (0.58%) Aderant
7 1 (0.58%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.58%) Concur
7 1 (0.58%) IBM
7 1 (0.58%) iManage
7 1 (0.58%) New Relic
7 1 (0.58%) Planview
7 1 (0.58%) SnapLogic