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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 443 405
Rank change year-on-year +13 -38 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 193 86 191
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.29% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 0.78% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 55 113
10th Percentile £355 £436 £421
25th Percentile £415 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £588 £653 £650
90th Percentile £668 £745 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £48.00 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £29.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.87% - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile £67.60 - -
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 16,954 10,983 13,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.01% 37.65% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,525 7,638 9,929
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 £631
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 250 346
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +46.36% +31.05% -40.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.88 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.71
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.08% -28.09%

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 29 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK

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 29 April 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 +2 162 £500 -17.01% 51
London -15 108 £500 -16.67% 29
UK excluding London -51 59 £500 -20.00% 35
Work from Home -16 58 £500 -14.89% 31
Midlands -51 14 £461 +15.46% 7
North of England - 13 £525 - 8
South East -58 11 £643 +2.88% 10
East of England -30 9 £575 -14.81% 4
East Midlands -32 7 £500 -13.04% 3
West Midlands -52 7 £460 +105.36% 4
North West - 7 £550 - 5
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 2
Wales -9 5 £340 +112.50% 1
Scotland +3 4 £358 - 4
South West -30 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 36 (18.65%) SharePoint
2 17 (8.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.70%) HCL Notes
4 10 (5.18%) Mendix
5 3 (1.55%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.04%) Confluence
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (7.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.52%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 193 (100.00%) Azure
2 93 (48.19%) Azure DevOps
3 91 (47.15%) Serverless
4 81 (41.97%) Azure Functions
5 77 (39.90%) Azure Logic Apps
6 55 (28.50%) Azure Monitor
7 49 (25.39%) Azure Key Vault
7 49 (25.39%) GitHub
8 45 (23.32%) Entra ID
9 44 (22.80%) Dynamics 365
10 42 (21.76%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (21.76%) Power Platform
11 40 (20.73%) Azure AKS
12 39 (20.21%) Power Automate
13 37 (19.17%) Azure Event Grid
14 35 (18.13%) Microsoft 365
15 34 (17.62%) Azure API Management
16 29 (15.03%) PaaS
16 29 (15.03%) PowerApps
17 28 (14.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) SMS
2 5 (2.59%) Firewall
3 4 (2.07%) Network Security
4 1 (0.52%) DKIM
4 1 (0.52%) DMARC
4 1 (0.52%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) MPLS
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (10.88%) SQL Server
3 16 (8.29%) Power BI
4 11 (5.70%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.63%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.07%) Metadata
7 4 (2.07%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.04%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.04%) Redis
8 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (7.77%) Git
2 4 (2.07%) Selenium
3 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.55%) NUnit
3 3 (1.55%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.04%) GitLab
4 2 (1.04%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.04%) JIRA
4 2 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.52%) Mocha
5 1 (0.52%) Moq
5 1 (0.52%) Serilog
General
1 33 (17.10%) Finance
2 31 (16.06%) Public Sector
3 30 (15.54%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.70%) Financial Institution
5 7 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.11%) Marketing
7 5 (2.59%) Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Aviation
8 3 (1.55%) Retail
9 2 (1.04%) Law
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Billing
10 1 (0.52%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 97 (50.26%) Developer
2 35 (18.13%) Architect
3 34 (17.62%) Azure Developer
4 26 (13.47%) Senior
5 23 (11.92%) .NET Developer
6 21 (10.88%) Lead
7 18 (9.33%) Senior Developer
8 17 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (8.29%) C# Developer
10 13 (6.74%) Power Platform Developer
11 11 (5.70%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Consultant
12 10 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (4.66%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (4.15%) Azure Architect
14 8 (4.15%) C# .NET Developer
14 8 (4.15%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 8 (4.15%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 7 (3.63%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (52.33%) .NET
2 51 (26.42%) REST
3 34 (17.62%) .NET Core
4 30 (15.54%) React
5 27 (13.99%) .NET Framework
6 23 (11.92%) Microsoft Graph
7 22 (11.40%) RESTful
8 21 (10.88%) Kafka
9 20 (10.36%) OAuth
10 19 (9.84%) OAuth2
10 19 (9.84%) SOAP
11 17 (8.81%) Web Services
12 16 (8.29%) AngularJS
13 15 (7.77%) Entity Framework
13 15 (7.77%) Node.js
14 14 (7.25%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (6.74%) HTML5 Canvas
16 12 (6.22%) ASP.NET Web API
17 11 (5.70%) JWT
18 7 (3.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.80%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.74%) Low-Code
3 12 (6.22%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.63%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.07%) IoT
7 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.04%) Wiki
10 1 (0.52%) CMDB
10 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) Pricing Data
10 1 (0.52%) State Machine
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (69.95%) DevOps
2 108 (55.96%) CI/CD
3 59 (30.57%) API Management
4 55 (28.50%) Event-Driven
4 55 (28.50%) Microservices
5 43 (22.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (21.76%) Analytics
7 40 (20.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 37 (19.17%) Observability
9 34 (17.62%) Containerisation
10 33 (17.10%) Integration Patterns
11 27 (13.99%) Data Modelling
12 26 (13.47%) Agile
12 26 (13.47%) Log Analytics
13 22 (11.40%) Migration
13 22 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (10.88%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (10.36%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (9.33%) API Integration
16 18 (9.33%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 119 (61.66%) C#
2 67 (34.72%) SQL
3 33 (17.10%) JavaScript
4 32 (16.58%) Bicep
5 31 (16.06%) PowerShell
6 24 (12.44%) Python
7 20 (10.36%) Kusto Query Language
8 16 (8.29%) TypeScript
9 12 (6.22%) Java
10 11 (5.70%) Formula Language
10 11 (5.70%) LotusScript
11 3 (1.55%) X++
12 1 (0.52%) Korn
12 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (24.87%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.25%) Degree
4 13 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.15%) Data Quality
1 8 (4.15%) GDPR
1 8 (4.15%) QA
2 5 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.04%) FedRAMP
3 2 (1.04%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) PMO
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (21.24%) Docker
2 16 (8.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (22.80%) Terraform
2 39 (20.21%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.11%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.59%) Grafana
5 4 (2.07%) Ansible
5 4 (2.07%) Istio
5 4 (2.07%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.07%) linkerd
Vendors
1 99 (51.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.81%) Databricks
3 13 (6.74%) Oracle
4 11 (5.70%) Lotus
4 11 (5.70%) OpenAI
5 10 (5.18%) Kofax
6 3 (1.55%) Informatica
6 3 (1.55%) SAP
6 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.55%) Talend
7 2 (1.04%) Foundry
7 2 (1.04%) Workday
8 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) iManage
8 1 (0.52%) Infor
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic
8 1 (0.52%) Planview
8 1 (0.52%) Solace