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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 431 406
Rank change year-on-year -18 -25 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 189 93 195
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.32% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 0.84% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 61 118
10th Percentile £355 £450 £407
25th Percentile £418 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £668 £700 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £29.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +132.48% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 17,046 11,024 13,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.80% 37.60% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,541 7,640 9,911
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 253 342
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.92
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.75 £48.00 £34.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.50 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.53 £17.69
% change year-on-year +120.67% +21.68% -28.15%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -22 158 £525 -12.50% 58
London +4 103 £513 -14.58% 32
UK excluding London -73 60 £500 -13.04% 32
Work from Home -23 57 £500 -14.89% 32
Midlands -61 14 £461 -10.00% 6
North of England -48 13 £525 +16.67% 6
South East -53 11 £643 +2.88% 14
East of England -27 10 £563 -16.67% 4
East Midlands -23 7 £500 -13.04% 2
North West -36 7 £550 +22.22% 3
West Midlands -53 7 £460 -8.68% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 2
Wales -12 5 £340 +112.50% 1
Scotland +1 4 £358 - 1
South West -32 3 £450 +20.00% 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 33 (17.46%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.82%) HCL Notes
4 10 (5.29%) Mendix
5 3 (1.59%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.06%) Confluence
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.53%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 189 (100.00%) Azure
2 92 (48.68%) Serverless
3 89 (47.09%) Azure DevOps
4 81 (42.86%) Azure Functions
5 73 (38.62%) Azure Logic Apps
6 50 (26.46%) Azure Monitor
7 46 (24.34%) Azure Key Vault
8 45 (23.81%) GitHub
9 44 (23.28%) Dynamics 365
10 42 (22.22%) Entra ID
11 40 (21.16%) Azure AKS
11 40 (21.16%) Power Platform
12 38 (20.11%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (20.11%) Power Automate
13 37 (19.58%) Azure Event Grid
14 33 (17.46%) Azure API Management
15 31 (16.40%) Microsoft 365
16 28 (14.81%) PowerApps
17 27 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 26 (13.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.70%) SMS
2 5 (2.65%) Firewall
3 3 (1.59%) Network Security
4 1 (0.53%) DKIM
4 1 (0.53%) DMARC
4 1 (0.53%) HTTP
4 1 (0.53%) LAN
4 1 (0.53%) MPLS
4 1 (0.53%) VPN
4 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 16 (8.47%) Power BI
4 11 (5.82%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.12%) Metadata
8 4 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.59%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.06%) Redis
10 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.53%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 14 (7.41%) Git
2 4 (2.12%) Selenium
3 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.59%) NUnit
3 3 (1.59%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.06%) GitLab
4 2 (1.06%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.06%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.53%) Mocha
5 1 (0.53%) Moq
5 1 (0.53%) Serilog
General
1 35 (18.52%) Finance
2 31 (16.40%) Public Sector
3 29 (15.34%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.82%) Financial Institution
5 7 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.17%) Marketing
7 5 (2.65%) Banking
8 3 (1.59%) Aviation
8 3 (1.59%) Retail
9 2 (1.06%) Law
9 2 (1.06%) Legal
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Billing
10 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 93 (49.21%) Developer
2 35 (18.52%) Architect
3 34 (17.99%) Azure Developer
4 27 (14.29%) Senior
5 22 (11.64%) .NET Developer
6 21 (11.11%) Lead
7 18 (9.52%) Senior Developer
8 15 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (7.94%) C# Developer
9 12 (6.35%) Power Platform Developer
10 10 (5.29%) Consultant
10 10 (5.29%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 10 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.23%) Azure Architect
12 8 (4.23%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 8 (4.23%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 8 (4.23%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (3.70%) C# .NET Developer
13 7 (3.70%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (52.38%) .NET
2 47 (24.87%) REST
3 33 (17.46%) .NET Core
4 30 (15.87%) React
5 24 (12.70%) .NET Framework
6 22 (11.64%) Kafka
6 22 (11.64%) RESTful
7 21 (11.11%) OAuth
8 19 (10.05%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (10.05%) OAuth2
9 16 (8.47%) AngularJS
9 16 (8.47%) SOAP
9 16 (8.47%) Web Services
10 15 (7.94%) Entity Framework
10 15 (7.94%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (7.41%) Node.js
12 13 (6.88%) HTML5 Canvas
13 12 (6.35%) ASP.NET Web API
13 12 (6.35%) JWT
14 7 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.35%) Low-Code
3 11 (5.82%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.82%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.17%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.12%) IoT
6 4 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.12%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.06%) Wiki
9 1 (0.53%) CMDB
9 1 (0.53%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.53%) NHS
9 1 (0.53%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.53%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.53%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (68.25%) DevOps
2 105 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 58 (30.69%) Event-Driven
4 57 (30.16%) API Management
5 56 (29.63%) Microservices
6 43 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (21.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 39 (20.63%) Analytics
9 35 (18.52%) Observability
10 34 (17.99%) Containerisation
11 33 (17.46%) Integration Patterns
12 27 (14.29%) Data Modelling
13 26 (13.76%) Agile
14 22 (11.64%) Log Analytics
14 22 (11.64%) Migration
15 21 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
17 18 (9.52%) API Integration
17 18 (9.52%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 118 (62.43%) C#
2 67 (35.45%) SQL
3 33 (17.46%) JavaScript
4 32 (16.93%) Bicep
5 28 (14.81%) PowerShell
6 24 (12.70%) Python
7 18 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
8 16 (8.47%) TypeScript
9 12 (6.35%) Java
10 11 (5.82%) Formula Language
10 11 (5.82%) LotusScript
11 3 (1.59%) X++
12 1 (0.53%) Korn
12 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (24.34%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.41%) Degree
4 13 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.23%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.23%) Data Quality
1 8 (4.23%) GDPR
1 8 (4.23%) QA
2 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.06%) FedRAMP
3 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.53%) NCSC
4 1 (0.53%) PMO
4 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (22.22%) Docker
2 15 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (22.75%) Terraform
2 40 (21.16%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.17%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.65%) Grafana
5 4 (2.12%) Ansible
5 4 (2.12%) Istio
5 4 (2.12%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.12%) linkerd
Vendors
1 96 (50.79%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.47%) Databricks
3 13 (6.88%) Oracle
4 11 (5.82%) Lotus
5 10 (5.29%) Kofax
6 9 (4.76%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.59%) Informatica
7 3 (1.59%) SAP
7 3 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.59%) Talend
8 2 (1.06%) Foundry
8 2 (1.06%) Workday
9 1 (0.53%) Aderant
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) iManage
9 1 (0.53%) Infor
9 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.53%) New Relic
9 1 (0.53%) Planview
9 1 (0.53%) Solace