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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 442 378
Rank change year-on-year -42 -64 +46
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 175 101 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.33% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 0.88% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 63 126
10th Percentile £358 £345 £430
25th Percentile £454 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £556
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.11% -5.08%
75th Percentile £620 £588 £675
90th Percentile £675 £655 £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 18,069 11,478 14,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 37.85% 32.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,038 7,704 9,991
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £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 600 287 360
10th Percentile £16.61 £15.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +26.84% -36.93%
75th Percentile £68.92 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.30 £71.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £18.87 £20.97
% change year-on-year +100.72% -10.01% -20.81%

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 27 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 27 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 -77 146 £550 +7.32% 67
London -34 92 £550 +7.68% 40
UK excluding London -84 60 £525 +5.00% 45
Work from Home -57 51 £525 +5.00% 39
East of England -13 16 £550 -18.52% 6
North of England -58 14 £525 +16.67% 6
Midlands -60 9 £500 -0.74% 3
South East -60 9 £608 +1.25% 26
North West -44 8 £600 +33.33% 5
East Midlands -10 6 £500 -13.04% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 1
Scotland -3 5 £358 - 2
Wales -12 5 £340 +44.68% 3
West Midlands -64 3 £555 +12.12% 2
South West -40 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 24 (13.71%) SharePoint
2 15 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.29%) HCL Notes
3 4 (2.29%) Mendix
4 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.14%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 175 (100.00%) Azure
2 78 (44.57%) Azure DevOps
2 78 (44.57%) Serverless
3 73 (41.71%) Azure Logic Apps
4 66 (37.71%) Azure Functions
5 46 (26.29%) Dynamics 365
6 41 (23.43%) Power Platform
7 39 (22.29%) Azure Event Grid
8 36 (20.57%) Azure Monitor
8 36 (20.57%) GitHub
9 34 (19.43%) Azure AKS
10 33 (18.86%) Entra ID
10 33 (18.86%) Power Automate
11 31 (17.71%) PowerApps
12 30 (17.14%) Azure Key Vault
13 28 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (14.86%) Azure API Management
14 26 (14.86%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (10.29%) AWS
15 18 (10.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) SMS
2 3 (1.71%) Network Security
2 3 (1.71%) VPN
3 2 (1.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.57%) DKIM
4 1 (0.57%) DMARC
4 1 (0.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.86%) Power BI
4 5 (2.86%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.29%) InfluxDB
5 4 (2.29%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.57%) Metadata
8 1 (0.57%) Redis
8 1 (0.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (10.29%) Git
2 4 (2.29%) JIRA
2 4 (2.29%) NUnit
2 4 (2.29%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.71%) Selenium
3 3 (1.71%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.14%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.14%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.57%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Moq
5 1 (0.57%) Postman
5 1 (0.57%) Serilog
5 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (19.43%) Finance
2 27 (15.43%) Public Sector
3 22 (12.57%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.86%) Financial Institution
5 5 (2.86%) Marketing
6 3 (1.71%) Law
6 3 (1.71%) Local Government
7 2 (1.14%) Banking
7 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.14%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.14%) Legal
7 2 (1.14%) Retail
8 1 (0.57%) Automotive
8 1 (0.57%) Aviation
8 1 (0.57%) Billing
8 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (45.71%) Developer
2 34 (19.43%) Architect
3 28 (16.00%) Senior
4 27 (15.43%) Azure Developer
5 21 (12.00%) .NET Developer
6 19 (10.86%) Lead
7 17 (9.71%) Senior Developer
8 15 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (6.86%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 11 (6.29%) C# Developer
11 10 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 7 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.00%) Integration Architect
13 6 (3.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.43%) Consultant
13 6 (3.43%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 6 (3.43%) Power Platform Developer
13 6 (3.43%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (50.86%) .NET
2 47 (26.86%) REST
3 23 (13.14%) RESTful
4 21 (12.00%) .NET Core
4 21 (12.00%) .NET Framework
4 21 (12.00%) React
5 19 (10.86%) OAuth
5 19 (10.86%) SOAP
6 18 (10.29%) Kafka
7 16 (9.14%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (9.14%) OAuth2
8 15 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
8 15 (8.57%) Web Services
9 12 (6.86%) AngularJS
10 11 (6.29%) Entity Framework
11 10 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (5.71%) JSON
12 9 (5.14%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (5.14%) Middleware
12 9 (5.14%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 42 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.86%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.71%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.86%) IoT
7 4 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.29%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.71%) BYOD
8 3 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.71%) NHS
9 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.14%) Wiki
10 1 (0.57%) CMDB
10 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Licensing
10 1 (0.57%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (62.86%) DevOps
2 95 (54.29%) CI/CD
3 61 (34.86%) Event-Driven
4 54 (30.86%) API Management
5 51 (29.14%) Microservices
6 39 (22.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 38 (21.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (20.00%) Agile
9 31 (17.71%) Containerisation
10 30 (17.14%) Observability
11 28 (16.00%) Analytics
11 28 (16.00%) Integration Patterns
12 26 (14.86%) Data Modelling
13 24 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (12.00%) Mentoring
14 21 (12.00%) Migration
15 19 (10.86%) CRM
16 18 (10.29%) API Integration
17 17 (9.71%) ERP
17 17 (9.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 95 (54.29%) C#
2 48 (27.43%) SQL
3 32 (18.29%) JavaScript
4 23 (13.14%) Python
5 20 (11.43%) Bicep
6 19 (10.86%) PowerShell
7 16 (9.14%) Kusto Query Language
7 16 (9.14%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.86%) Java
9 5 (2.86%) X++
10 4 (2.29%) Formula Language
10 4 (2.29%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.57%) Korn
11 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.43%) Degree
4 9 (5.14%) Azure Certification
4 9 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.57%) GDPR
2 5 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.86%) QA
3 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.71%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) FedRAMP
5 2 (1.14%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (22.29%) Docker
2 11 (6.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 32 (18.29%) Terraform
3 6 (3.43%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.86%) Grafana
4 5 (2.86%) Istio
5 4 (2.29%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.29%) linkerd
6 1 (0.57%) Argo
Vendors
1 88 (50.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.57%) Databricks
3 7 (4.00%) Oracle
4 5 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.29%) Kofax
5 4 (2.29%) Lotus
5 4 (2.29%) SAP
5 4 (2.29%) Workday
6 3 (1.71%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.71%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.14%) Foundry
7 2 (1.14%) Infor
8 1 (0.57%) Aderant
8 1 (0.57%) Adobe
8 1 (0.57%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.57%) Concur
8 1 (0.57%) iManage
8 1 (0.57%) New Relic
8 1 (0.57%) Planview
8 1 (0.57%) SnapLogic