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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 392 423
Rank change year-on-year -57 +31 +82
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 117 158 213
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.44% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.87% 1.25% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 95 149
10th Percentile £359 £468 £419
25th Percentile £413 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
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 13,478 12,686 16,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.61% 35.21% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,103 8,350 11,897
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 164 319
10th Percentile £15.14 £18.74 £14.59
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.47 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% +7.70% +45.45%
75th Percentile £44.09 £60.15 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.78 £70.00 £78.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -36.36% +46.67% +18.42%

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 November 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
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 11 November 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 -69 104 £523 -16.28% 77
London -26 72 £510 -20.81% 42
Work from Home -3 54 £450 -22.58% 41
UK excluding London -58 29 £500 -16.67% 40
Midlands -20 7 £550 +13.40% 6
East Midlands -6 6 £569 +53.72% 4
North West -14 6 £405 -35.20% 7
North of England -26 6 £405 -35.20% 11
South West +3 5 £375 - 6
East of England - 5 £725 -
South East -28 3 £554 -7.71% 13
Wales - 3 £310 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
West Midlands -29 1 £310 -48.33% 2

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 7 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.56%) NServiceBus
3 2 (1.71%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.71%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (1.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (8.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Aladdin
1 5 (4.27%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (4.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.42%) Fidessa
2 4 (3.42%) thinkFolio
3 2 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 112 (95.73%) Azure
2 71 (60.68%) Azure Logic Apps
3 53 (45.30%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (33.33%) Serverless
5 34 (29.06%) Azure Functions
6 31 (26.50%) Azure Monitor
7 27 (23.08%) Power Platform
8 24 (20.51%) GitHub
8 24 (20.51%) PowerApps
9 21 (17.95%) Azure API Management
10 19 (16.24%) Azure Event Grid
10 19 (16.24%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (16.24%) Power Automate
11 18 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (13.68%) Entra ID
13 15 (12.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (11.11%) PaaS
15 9 (7.69%) Azure Storage
16 7 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.55%) Network Security
2 8 (6.84%) HTTP
3 2 (1.71%) SSL
4 1 (0.85%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) LAN
4 1 (0.85%) MPLS
4 1 (0.85%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) WAN
4 1 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.66%) SQL Server
2 21 (17.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (7.69%) Power BI
4 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.71%) Redis
6 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.85%) HDInsight
6 1 (0.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Git
2 9 (7.69%) Postman
3 4 (3.42%) JIRA
4 3 (2.56%) Selenium
5 2 (1.71%) git-flow
5 2 (1.71%) JMeter
5 2 (1.71%) Locust
5 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.85%) TestRail
General
1 36 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.09%) Finance
3 18 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.84%) Banking
4 8 (6.84%) Law
5 6 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Billing
8 3 (2.56%) Front Office
9 2 (1.71%) Local Government
9 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Electronics
10 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Legal
10 1 (0.85%) Military
10 1 (0.85%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (53.85%) Developer
2 19 (16.24%) Architect
3 16 (13.68%) Senior
4 14 (11.97%) Integration Developer
5 13 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 12 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (9.40%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 10 (8.55%) Azure Developer
8 10 (8.55%) Lead
9 9 (7.69%) .NET Developer
10 8 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) C# Developer
11 7 (5.98%) Node.js Developer
12 6 (5.13%) C# .NET Developer
12 6 (5.13%) Power Platform Developer
13 5 (4.27%) Applications Developer
13 5 (4.27%) Azure Architect
13 5 (4.27%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (4.27%) Power Apps Developer
14 4 (3.42%) .NET Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (43.59%) .NET
2 30 (25.64%) REST
3 23 (19.66%) .NET Core
4 21 (17.95%) SOAP
5 15 (12.82%) JSON
6 14 (11.97%) AngularJS
6 14 (11.97%) Node.js
6 14 (11.97%) React
7 13 (11.11%) .NET Framework
7 13 (11.11%) RESTful
8 11 (9.40%) HTML5 Canvas
9 10 (8.55%) OAuth
10 9 (7.69%) ARM Templates
10 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (7.69%) YAML
11 7 (5.98%) ASP.NET
11 7 (5.98%) Express.js
11 7 (5.98%) SignalR
11 7 (5.98%) WebSockets
11 7 (5.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.84%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.13%) Low-Code
6 5 (4.27%) AI Agents
6 5 (4.27%) Data Fabric
6 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.27%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.42%) Derivative
7 4 (3.42%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.56%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.56%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.71%) IVR
9 2 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.71%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.85%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Android
1 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (65.81%) DevOps
2 63 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 41 (35.04%) API Management
4 40 (34.19%) Agile
5 29 (24.79%) Analytics
6 28 (23.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (23.93%) Microservices
7 24 (20.51%) Log Analytics
8 22 (18.80%) Event-Driven
9 19 (16.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 18 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (15.38%) Scrum
11 14 (11.97%) RBAC
12 13 (11.11%) DevSecOps
12 13 (11.11%) Test Automation
13 12 (10.26%) Containerisation
13 12 (10.26%) Data Modelling
13 12 (10.26%) Observability
13 12 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 60 (51.28%) C#
2 46 (39.32%) SQL
3 33 (28.21%) JavaScript
4 25 (21.37%) Python
5 22 (18.80%) Bicep
6 17 (14.53%) TypeScript
7 16 (13.68%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.13%) Bash
8 6 (5.13%) Java
8 6 (5.13%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.27%) X++
10 3 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.71%) Formula Language
11 2 (1.71%) LotusScript
11 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 23 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.42%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.71%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) GDPR
2 4 (3.42%) MiFID
3 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (9.40%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.13%) Docker
2 6 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (20.51%) Terraform
2 5 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (41.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.40%) Oracle
3 10 (8.55%) Databricks
4 8 (6.84%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.98%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.42%) Portware
6 4 (3.42%) SAP
7 3 (2.56%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.71%) Lotus
9 1 (0.85%) Ariba
9 1 (0.85%) Charles River
9 1 (0.85%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.85%) iManage
9 1 (0.85%) Kofax
9 1 (0.85%) Northgate
9 1 (0.85%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.85%) webMethods
9 1 (0.85%) Workday