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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 427 400
Rank change year-on-year +3 -27 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 191 94 187
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.32% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 0.84% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 56 121
10th Percentile £356 £394 £425
25th Percentile £415 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £609 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +1.46% +1.69%
75th Percentile £600 £652 £683
90th Percentile £668 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £623 £556
% change year-on-year -19.68% +11.91% -7.29%
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 16,201 11,126 14,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.24% 38.03% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,068 7,739 10,251
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £488
% change year-on-year -1.25% -1.33% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 204 359
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.33 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -17.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.62 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.35 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.09 £17.80
% change year-on-year +77.19% +35.34% -20.73%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -19 156 £500 -20.00% 52
London +5 105 £500 -20.48% 22
Work from Home -13 56 £500 -17.86% 43
UK excluding London -62 53 £500 -19.68% 40
Midlands -53 13 £455 +22.97% 10
South East -68 11 £643 +2.88% 8
North of England - 11 £500 - 11
East of England -14 8 £600 - 3
West Midlands -57 7 £460 +105.36% 4
East Midlands -32 6 £450 -4.76% 6
North West - 6 £575 - 6
Wales -6 5 £370 +131.25% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £457 - 3
Scotland +8 4 £358 - 5
South West -26 1 - - 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 35 (18.32%) SharePoint
2 17 (8.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.76%) HCL Notes
4 10 (5.24%) Mendix
5 3 (1.57%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.57%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (7.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.52%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 191 (100.00%) Azure
2 95 (49.74%) Azure DevOps
3 90 (47.12%) Serverless
4 83 (43.46%) Azure Functions
5 79 (41.36%) Azure Logic Apps
6 57 (29.84%) Azure Monitor
7 54 (28.27%) GitHub
8 50 (26.18%) Azure Key Vault
8 50 (26.18%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (23.04%) Entra ID
10 40 (20.94%) Power Platform
11 39 (20.42%) Power Automate
12 38 (19.90%) Dynamics 365
13 34 (17.80%) Azure API Management
13 34 (17.80%) Azure Event Grid
13 34 (17.80%) Microsoft 365
14 32 (16.75%) Azure AKS
15 29 (15.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 28 (14.66%) PowerApps
17 27 (14.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.19%) HTTP
2 6 (3.14%) Firewall
2 6 (3.14%) Network Security
2 6 (3.14%) SMS
3 2 (1.05%) LAN
3 2 (1.05%) MPLS
3 2 (1.05%) VPN
3 2 (1.05%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (23.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 28 (14.66%) SQL Server
3 15 (7.85%) Power BI
4 11 (5.76%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.66%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.57%) Metadata
8 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.05%) Redis
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (8.38%) Git
2 4 (2.09%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.09%) Selenium
3 3 (1.57%) JIRA
3 3 (1.57%) NUnit
3 3 (1.57%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.05%) GitLab
4 2 (1.05%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.52%) Mocha
5 1 (0.52%) Moq
5 1 (0.52%) Serilog
General
1 32 (16.75%) Public Sector
1 32 (16.75%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.71%) Finance
3 11 (5.76%) Financial Institution
4 7 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (3.66%) Marketing
5 6 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Banking
7 3 (1.57%) Aviation
7 3 (1.57%) Law
8 2 (1.05%) Legal
8 2 (1.05%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Billing
9 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (51.83%) Developer
2 33 (17.28%) Azure Developer
3 28 (14.66%) Architect
4 25 (13.09%) Senior
5 21 (10.99%) .NET Developer
6 20 (10.47%) Lead
7 19 (9.95%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (8.90%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.85%) C# Developer
9 15 (7.85%) Power Platform Developer
10 11 (5.76%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 9 (4.71%) Consultant
11 9 (4.71%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 8 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Node.js Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Technical Leader
13 7 (3.66%) Azure Architect
13 7 (3.66%) C# .NET Developer
13 7 (3.66%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (49.74%) .NET
2 52 (27.23%) REST
3 35 (18.32%) .NET Core
4 29 (15.18%) React
5 25 (13.09%) .NET Framework
5 25 (13.09%) RESTful
6 23 (12.04%) AngularJS
6 23 (12.04%) Microsoft Graph
6 23 (12.04%) Node.js
7 21 (10.99%) SOAP
8 19 (9.95%) Kafka
9 17 (8.90%) OAuth
9 17 (8.90%) Web Services
10 16 (8.38%) Entity Framework
11 15 (7.85%) OAuth2
12 14 (7.33%) HTML5 Canvas
13 12 (6.28%) JSON
13 12 (6.28%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (5.76%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (4.71%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.99%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.81%) Low-Code
3 11 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.19%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.05%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.05%) IoT
9 1 (0.52%) CMDB
9 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.52%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.52%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.52%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (71.20%) DevOps
2 112 (58.64%) CI/CD
3 59 (30.89%) Microservices
4 57 (29.84%) API Management
5 45 (23.56%) Event-Driven
6 44 (23.04%) Analytics
7 43 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (21.47%) Observability
9 36 (18.85%) Containerisation
10 35 (18.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 30 (15.71%) Log Analytics
12 28 (14.66%) Integration Patterns
13 27 (14.14%) Agile
14 25 (13.09%) RBAC
15 23 (12.04%) Data Modelling
16 22 (11.52%) Migration
16 22 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
18 18 (9.42%) AI
18 18 (9.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 112 (58.64%) C#
2 75 (39.27%) SQL
3 34 (17.80%) Bicep
3 34 (17.80%) JavaScript
4 31 (16.23%) PowerShell
5 23 (12.04%) TypeScript
6 22 (11.52%) Python
7 18 (9.42%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (5.76%) Formula Language
8 11 (5.76%) Java
8 11 (5.76%) LotusScript
9 4 (2.09%) X++
10 1 (0.52%) Korn
10 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (27.75%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.81%) Degree
4 9 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.09%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.24%) GDPR
2 7 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.14%) QA
4 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.57%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.05%) FedRAMP
6 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.52%) NCSC
7 1 (0.52%) PMO
7 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (17.28%) Docker
2 16 (8.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (24.61%) Terraform
2 33 (17.28%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.62%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.09%) Ansible
4 4 (2.09%) Grafana
5 3 (1.57%) Istio
5 3 (1.57%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.57%) linkerd
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (48.69%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.52%) Databricks
3 13 (6.81%) OpenAI
4 12 (6.28%) Oracle
5 11 (5.76%) Lotus
6 10 (5.24%) Kofax
7 3 (1.57%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.57%) Informatica
7 3 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.57%) Talend
8 2 (1.05%) Foundry
8 2 (1.05%) SAP
8 2 (1.05%) Workday
9 1 (0.52%) Aderant
9 1 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.52%) Charles River
9 1 (0.52%) IBM
9 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.52%) New Relic
9 1 (0.52%) Solace