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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 440 377
Rank change year-on-year -60 -63 +64
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 164 112 224
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.34% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 0.92% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 67 135
10th Percentile £436 £348 £430
25th Percentile £471 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £675
90th Percentile £668 £668 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +3.50% -11.11% -4.01%
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 18,702 12,186 14,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.35% 37.44% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,395 8,167 9,848
10th Percentile £329 £313 £310
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
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 613 313 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -24.47%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -80 135 £550 +7.32% 53
London -37 82 £575 +4.55% 25
UK excluding London -92 57 £518 +3.50% 39
Work from Home -65 48 £525 +5.00% 29
East of England -8 17 £550 -18.52% 4
North of England -68 15 £525 +16.67% 5
North West -46 9 £600 +33.33% 3
Midlands -53 9 £500 -0.74% 5
East Midlands -9 6 £500 -13.04% 1
South East -57 6 £534 -7.17% 20
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 2
Scotland -9 5 £358 -
South West -41 3 £475 +26.67% 5
West Midlands -61 3 £555 +12.12% 4
Wales -14 2 £310 +31.91% 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 20 (12.20%) SharePoint
2 15 (9.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.61%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.61%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.61%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (6.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.22%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.61%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 164 (100.00%) Azure
2 72 (43.90%) Azure Logic Apps
3 65 (39.63%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (35.37%) Serverless
5 48 (29.27%) Azure Functions
6 44 (26.83%) Dynamics 365
7 43 (26.22%) Power Platform
8 34 (20.73%) Azure AKS
9 33 (20.12%) Azure Monitor
10 32 (19.51%) Azure Event Grid
10 32 (19.51%) Entra ID
11 31 (18.90%) GitHub
12 30 (18.29%) PowerApps
13 29 (17.68%) Azure Key Vault
14 26 (15.85%) Power Automate
15 23 (14.02%) AWS
15 23 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (13.41%) Azure API Management
16 22 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
17 18 (10.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) HTTP
1 3 (1.83%) Network Security
1 3 (1.83%) VPN
2 1 (0.61%) DKIM
2 1 (0.61%) DMARC
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (10.37%) Power BI
3 12 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.44%) InfluxDB
5 4 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.83%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.22%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.61%) Metadata
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.61%) Redis
8 1 (0.61%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (11.59%) Git
2 12 (7.32%) JIRA
3 8 (4.88%) SpecFlow
4 4 (2.44%) NUnit
5 3 (1.83%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.22%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.61%) GitLab
7 1 (0.61%) Moq
7 1 (0.61%) Postman
7 1 (0.61%) Selenium
7 1 (0.61%) Serilog
7 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (18.90%) Finance
2 22 (13.41%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.80%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.83%) Law
4 3 (1.83%) Local Government
4 3 (1.83%) Retail
5 2 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.22%) Banking
5 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.22%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.22%) General Ledger
5 2 (1.22%) Legal
5 2 (1.22%) Marketing
6 1 (0.61%) Automotive
6 1 (0.61%) Billing
6 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.61%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 80 (48.78%) Developer
2 29 (17.68%) Architect
3 28 (17.07%) Azure Developer
4 26 (15.85%) Senior
5 20 (12.20%) .NET Developer
6 16 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (9.15%) Lead
8 14 (8.54%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (7.93%) C# Developer
9 13 (7.93%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 13 (7.93%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.10%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 8 (4.88%) Integration Architect
11 8 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Power Platform Developer
13 6 (3.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 6 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (57.32%) .NET
2 49 (29.88%) REST
3 23 (14.02%) .NET Core
4 22 (13.41%) .NET Framework
4 22 (13.41%) RESTful
5 20 (12.20%) SOAP
6 19 (11.59%) OAuth
7 17 (10.37%) Kafka
7 17 (10.37%) RabbitMQ
7 17 (10.37%) React
8 16 (9.76%) Microsoft Graph
9 15 (9.15%) OAuth2
10 14 (8.54%) Web Services
11 12 (7.32%) AngularJS
12 11 (6.71%) JSON
12 11 (6.71%) Swagger
13 10 (6.10%) Middleware
13 10 (6.10%) OpenAPI
14 9 (5.49%) Entity Framework
14 9 (5.49%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 50 (30.49%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.37%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.49%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.27%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.66%) IoT
7 5 (3.05%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.44%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.83%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.83%) BYOD
9 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.83%) NHS
9 3 (1.83%) Wiki
10 1 (0.61%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.61%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.61%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (67.68%) DevOps
2 95 (57.93%) CI/CD
3 59 (35.98%) Event-Driven
4 49 (29.88%) Microservices
5 48 (29.27%) Agile
6 46 (28.05%) API Management
7 37 (22.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 33 (20.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (16.46%) Analytics
9 27 (16.46%) Containerisation
10 24 (14.63%) Observability
11 23 (14.02%) Integration Patterns
12 20 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (12.20%) Migration
13 19 (11.59%) Data Modelling
13 19 (11.59%) Mentoring
13 19 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (10.98%) Log Analytics
15 17 (10.37%) ERP
15 17 (10.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 83 (50.61%) C#
2 41 (25.00%) SQL
3 25 (15.24%) JavaScript
3 25 (15.24%) Python
4 18 (10.98%) PowerShell
5 17 (10.37%) Bicep
6 16 (9.76%) Java
6 16 (9.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 13 (7.93%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.05%) X++
9 1 (0.61%) Formula Language
9 1 (0.61%) LotusScript
9 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (30.49%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.44%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.37%) Degree
4 16 (9.76%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.05%) GDPR
1 5 (3.05%) QA
2 3 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.83%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.83%) NIST
3 2 (1.22%) SLA
4 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (21.34%) Docker
2 10 (6.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 28 (17.07%) Terraform
3 5 (3.05%) Grafana
3 5 (3.05%) Istio
3 5 (3.05%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.44%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.44%) linkerd
5 1 (0.61%) Argo
Vendors
1 84 (51.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.66%) Databricks
2 6 (3.66%) Oracle
2 6 (3.66%) SAP
3 5 (3.05%) MuleSoft
3 5 (3.05%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.05%) Workday
4 3 (1.83%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.22%) Foundry
5 2 (1.22%) Infor
6 1 (0.61%) Adobe
6 1 (0.61%) Genesys
6 1 (0.61%) IBM
6 1 (0.61%) Informatica
6 1 (0.61%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.61%) Lotus
6 1 (0.61%) New Relic
6 1 (0.61%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.61%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.61%) WSO2