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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 449 349
Rank change year-on-year -82 -100 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 160 109 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.33% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.86% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 63 127
10th Percentile £418 £357 £428
25th Percentile £463 £407 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £588
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -12.77% -2.08%
75th Percentile £613 £591 £663
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £508 £575
% change year-on-year -1.48% -11.74% -4.17%

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 18,886 12,619 13,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.18% 34.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,525 8,413 8,640
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

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 8 October 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 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 8 October 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 -56 138 £550 +5.47% 123
London -53 94 £550 +4.76% 72
Work from Home -75 55 £525 +23.53% 64
UK excluding London -94 43 £500 -1.48% 69
South East -54 13 £460 -24.90% 22
East of England -29 10 £550 -18.52% 5
Midlands -51 8 £500 -2.44% 6
North of England -58 7 £525 +16.67% 16
North West -43 6 £575 +27.78% 9
East Midlands -13 5 £500 -12.09% 1
South West -38 5 £485 +29.33% 5
West Midlands -46 2 £625 +24.07% 5
Yorkshire -35 1 £475 - 5
Scotland - 1 - - 10

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 15 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.13%) CMS
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.25%) Mendix
3 2 (1.25%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 15 (9.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.25%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 160 (100.00%) Azure
2 73 (45.63%) Serverless
3 67 (41.88%) Azure Functions
4 66 (41.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 58 (36.25%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (33.13%) Dynamics 365
7 50 (31.25%) Power Platform
8 31 (19.38%) AWS
9 30 (18.75%) GitHub
9 30 (18.75%) PowerApps
10 29 (18.13%) Azure Event Grid
11 28 (17.50%) Entra ID
12 27 (16.88%) Power Automate
13 25 (15.63%) Azure API Management
14 23 (14.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 23 (14.38%) Azure Key Vault
14 23 (14.38%) Azure Monitor
15 21 (13.13%) Azure AKS
16 19 (11.88%) Microsoft Copilot
17 17 (10.63%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.88%) HTTP
2 5 (3.13%) Network Security
3 3 (1.88%) VPN
4 2 (1.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.63%) DKIM
5 1 (0.63%) DMARC
5 1 (0.63%) Internet
5 1 (0.63%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (11.88%) Power BI
3 11 (6.88%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.00%) Metadata
4 8 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.50%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.50%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.25%) Redis
10 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.63%) Parquet
10 1 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (12.50%) Git
2 13 (8.13%) JIRA
3 11 (6.88%) SpecFlow
4 6 (3.75%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.25%) NUnit
6 2 (1.25%) TestRail
7 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) GitLab
7 1 (0.63%) JUnit
7 1 (0.63%) MSTest
7 1 (0.63%) Postman
7 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.63%) Selenium
7 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.50%) Finance
3 22 (13.75%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.00%) Marketing
6 3 (1.88%) Local Government
7 2 (1.25%) Banking
7 2 (1.25%) Legal
7 2 (1.25%) Police
7 2 (1.25%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Automotive
8 1 (0.63%) Billing
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Front Office
8 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.63%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 77 (48.13%) Developer
2 31 (19.38%) Architect
3 28 (17.50%) Senior
4 23 (14.38%) Solutions Architect
5 22 (13.75%) Azure Developer
6 21 (13.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 15 (9.38%) .NET Developer
8 13 (8.13%) Lead
9 11 (6.88%) C# Developer
9 11 (6.88%) Senior Developer
10 9 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Integration Specialist
11 8 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
12 7 (4.38%) Azure Specialist
13 6 (3.75%) Backend Developer
13 6 (3.75%) Integration Engineer
13 6 (3.75%) Senior Architect
14 5 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
14 5 (3.13%) Consultant
14 5 (3.13%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (56.88%) .NET
2 64 (40.00%) REST
3 27 (16.88%) OAuth
3 27 (16.88%) Terraform
4 25 (15.63%) OpenAPI
4 25 (15.63%) Swagger
5 24 (15.00%) JSON
6 21 (13.13%) Kafka
6 21 (13.13%) Middleware
6 21 (13.13%) RESTful
6 21 (13.13%) XML
7 18 (11.25%) .NET Core
8 17 (10.63%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (9.38%) SOAP
10 12 (7.50%) GraphQL
10 12 (7.50%) JWT
10 12 (7.50%) React
11 11 (6.88%) EDI
11 11 (6.88%) OAuth2
11 11 (6.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 50 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 28 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.88%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.38%) AI Agents
6 7 (4.38%) Low-Code
7 6 (3.75%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.50%) Wiki
9 3 (1.88%) BYOD
9 3 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.88%) IoT
9 3 (1.88%) Life Science
9 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.88%) NHS
10 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (58.75%) CI/CD
1 94 (58.75%) DevOps
2 66 (41.25%) Event-Driven
3 57 (35.63%) Agile
4 53 (33.13%) API Management
5 50 (31.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 36 (22.50%) Microservices
7 35 (21.88%) Integration Patterns
8 33 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (14.38%) AI
11 23 (14.38%) Analytics
11 23 (14.38%) Test Automation
12 20 (12.50%) API Integration
12 20 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
12 20 (12.50%) Migration
13 19 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (11.88%) CRM
13 19 (11.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 82 (51.25%) C#
2 44 (27.50%) SQL
3 29 (18.13%) JavaScript
3 29 (18.13%) Python
4 28 (17.50%) Bicep
5 21 (13.13%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.50%) Java
7 4 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.50%) X++
8 1 (0.63%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.63%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.63%) C
8 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.25%) Azure Certification
4 13 (8.13%) Degree
5 10 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.63%) Data Quality
1 9 (5.63%) QA
2 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.88%) GDPR
2 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.88%) NIST
3 2 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.25%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (15.63%) Docker
2 9 (5.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.75%) Grafana
3 1 (0.63%) Argo
3 1 (0.63%) Istio
3 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 89 (55.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.38%) Oracle
3 12 (7.50%) MuleSoft
4 9 (5.63%) Google
4 9 (5.63%) IBM
4 9 (5.63%) Informatica
4 9 (5.63%) TIBCO
4 9 (5.63%) WSO2
5 5 (3.13%) Databricks
5 5 (3.13%) SAP
5 5 (3.13%) Workday
6 4 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.88%) Aprimo
7 3 (1.88%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.88%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.88%) Optimizely
7 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.25%) Adobe
8 2 (1.25%) Adyen
8 2 (1.25%) Kofax