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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 439 365
Rank change year-on-year -87 -74 +73
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 158 112 202
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.34% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 0.91% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 66 122
10th Percentile £418 £358 £430
25th Percentile £463 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £504 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.19% -16.04% -
75th Percentile £613 £573 £675
90th Percentile £651 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £504 £550
% change year-on-year -0.74% -8.41% -8.33%

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 19,019 12,350 12,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.67% 37.77% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,616 8,238 8,668
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 291 186
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.28
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £53.13 £64.67
90th Percentile £80.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.75 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +59.57% -41.61% +29.67%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -74 136 £550 +7.32% 119
London -57 91 £572 +9.32% 74
Work from Home -73 54 £500 +11.11% 58
UK excluding London -96 45 £500 -0.74% 62
South East -57 12 £460 -23.33% 21
East of England -24 10 £550 -18.52% 2
Midlands -49 9 £500 -2.44% 6
North of England -76 8 £575 +27.78% 18
East Midlands -18 6 £500 -12.09% 1
North West -49 6 £575 +27.78% 9
South West -37 5 £470 +25.33% 2
West Midlands -42 2 £625 +24.07% 5
Yorkshire -45 2 £588 - 9
Wales -13 1 £310 - 5
Scotland - 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 16 (10.13%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.16%) CMS
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.27%) Mendix
4 2 (1.27%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.63%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.16%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.27%) 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
1 158 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (42.41%) Azure Logic Apps
2 67 (42.41%) Serverless
3 61 (38.61%) Azure Functions
4 54 (34.18%) Dynamics 365
5 53 (33.54%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (27.85%) Power Platform
7 32 (20.25%) AWS
8 31 (19.62%) Azure Event Grid
9 28 (17.72%) PowerApps
10 26 (16.46%) GitHub
11 25 (15.82%) Entra ID
12 24 (15.19%) Power Automate
13 23 (14.56%) Azure AKS
13 23 (14.56%) Azure API Management
14 22 (13.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 21 (13.29%) Azure Key Vault
15 21 (13.29%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (12.03%) Microsoft Copilot
17 17 (10.76%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.96%) HTTP
2 4 (2.53%) Network Security
3 3 (1.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.63%) DKIM
4 1 (0.63%) DMARC
4 1 (0.63%) Firewall
4 1 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.63%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (11.39%) Power BI
3 11 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.06%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.80%) Metadata
6 5 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.53%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.53%) InfluxDB
7 4 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (12.03%) Git
2 13 (8.23%) JIRA
3 10 (6.33%) SpecFlow
4 6 (3.80%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.27%) NUnit
6 2 (1.27%) TestRail
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 29 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.46%) Finance
3 19 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.80%) Marketing
6 3 (1.90%) Legal
6 3 (1.90%) Local Government
6 3 (1.90%) Retail
7 2 (1.27%) Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Automotive
8 1 (0.63%) Billing
8 1 (0.63%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.63%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 75 (47.47%) Developer
2 30 (18.99%) Architect
3 24 (15.19%) Senior
4 23 (14.56%) Azure Developer
5 22 (13.92%) Solutions Architect
6 19 (12.03%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 16 (10.13%) .NET Developer
8 14 (8.86%) Lead
9 12 (7.59%) C# Developer
10 10 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (6.33%) Senior Developer
11 8 (5.06%) Integration Specialist
11 8 (5.06%) Power Platform Developer
12 7 (4.43%) Azure Specialist
12 7 (4.43%) Integration Engineer
13 6 (3.80%) Backend Developer
13 6 (3.80%) Dynamics 365 Architect
14 5 (3.16%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.16%) Integration Developer
14 5 (3.16%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (57.59%) .NET
2 59 (37.34%) REST
3 27 (17.09%) OAuth
4 24 (15.19%) JSON
4 24 (15.19%) OpenAPI
4 24 (15.19%) Swagger
4 24 (15.19%) Terraform
5 21 (13.29%) Kafka
5 21 (13.29%) XML
6 20 (12.66%) RESTful
7 19 (12.03%) Middleware
8 18 (11.39%) RabbitMQ
9 17 (10.76%) .NET Core
10 15 (9.49%) SOAP
11 12 (7.59%) GraphQL
11 12 (7.59%) JWT
11 12 (7.59%) OAuth2
12 11 (6.96%) EDI
12 11 (6.96%) React
13 10 (6.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (32.28%) Cloud Native
2 26 (16.46%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.96%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.43%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.43%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.16%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.16%) Wiki
6 4 (2.53%) IoT
6 4 (2.53%) NHS
7 3 (1.90%) BYOD
7 3 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.90%) Life Science
8 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.63%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.63%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (58.23%) CI/CD
2 89 (56.33%) DevOps
3 63 (39.87%) Event-Driven
4 55 (34.81%) Agile
5 51 (32.28%) API Management
6 47 (29.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 35 (22.15%) Integration Patterns
8 33 (20.89%) Microservices
9 28 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (13.92%) AI
11 22 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (13.29%) Containerisation
12 21 (13.29%) Test Automation
13 19 (12.03%) Analytics
13 19 (12.03%) API Development
13 19 (12.03%) CRM
13 19 (12.03%) Enterprise Architecture
14 18 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (11.39%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 81 (51.27%) C#
2 42 (26.58%) SQL
3 29 (18.35%) JavaScript
4 28 (17.72%) Python
5 24 (15.19%) Bicep
6 18 (11.39%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.96%) Java
8 4 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.53%) X++
9 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.63%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.13%) Azure Certification
4 13 (8.23%) Degree
5 10 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) QA
2 7 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.53%) GDPR
4 3 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.90%) NIST
5 2 (1.27%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (16.46%) Docker
2 10 (6.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (17.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.90%) Grafana
3 2 (1.27%) Istio
3 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.63%) Argo
4 1 (0.63%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.63%) linkerd
Vendors
1 85 (53.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.86%) Oracle
3 12 (7.59%) MuleSoft
4 9 (5.70%) Google
4 9 (5.70%) IBM
4 9 (5.70%) Informatica
4 9 (5.70%) TIBCO
4 9 (5.70%) WSO2
5 6 (3.80%) SAP
5 6 (3.80%) Workday
6 4 (2.53%) Databricks
7 3 (1.90%) Aprimo
7 3 (1.90%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.90%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.90%) Optimizely
7 3 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.27%) Adyen
9 1 (0.63%) Concur
9 1 (0.63%) iManage
9 1 (0.63%) Okta