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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 387 430
Rank change year-on-year -70 +43 +62
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 115 175 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.48% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.37% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 105 144
10th Percentile £359 £427 £418
25th Percentile £413 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £601 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +0.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.73% -8.33% +9.09%

All Cloud 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 12,995 12,816 16,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.59% 35.02% 35.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,699 8,447 12,063
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £708 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 167 324
10th Percentile £15.07 £18.18 £14.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +12.90% +37.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £60.47
90th Percentile £69.25 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.75 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -40.71% +55.56% +16.79%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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 -78 101 £525 -13.93% 57
London -55 63 £525 -17.00% 26
Work from Home +14 60 £525 -8.70% 36
UK excluding London -31 35 £508 -7.73% 47
Midlands -12 10 £513 +5.67% 7
North West -16 7 £450 -28.00% 11
North of England -27 7 £450 -28.00% 15
East Midlands -4 6 £569 +53.72% 3
South West +17 5 £375 - 3
South East -25 5 £613 +11.36% 14
East of England - 5 £725 -
West Midlands -15 4 £504 -16.04% 3
Wales - 3 £310 - 7
Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 3 (2.61%) NServiceBus
1 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.87%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.87%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Aladdin
1 5 (4.35%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.48%) Fidessa
2 4 (3.48%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.48%) thinkFolio
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 110 (95.65%) Azure
2 64 (55.65%) Azure Logic Apps
3 50 (43.48%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (33.04%) Serverless
5 33 (28.70%) Azure Functions
6 26 (22.61%) Azure Monitor
7 23 (20.00%) Power Platform
8 22 (19.13%) PowerApps
9 20 (17.39%) Azure API Management
10 19 (16.52%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (14.78%) Azure Event Grid
11 17 (14.78%) Power Automate
12 16 (13.91%) GitHub
13 11 (9.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (9.57%) Entra ID
13 11 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (8.70%) PaaS
15 9 (7.83%) Azure Storage
16 6 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.96%) HTTP
2 7 (6.09%) Network Security
3 2 (1.74%) SSL
4 1 (0.87%) DNS
4 1 (0.87%) Firewall
4 1 (0.87%) LAN
4 1 (0.87%) MPLS
4 1 (0.87%) VPN
4 1 (0.87%) WAN
4 1 (0.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 19 (16.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (6.96%) Power BI
4 6 (5.22%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.35%) Redis
6 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.87%) HDInsight
8 1 (0.87%) Metadata
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Git
2 9 (7.83%) Postman
3 4 (3.48%) JIRA
4 3 (2.61%) Selenium
5 2 (1.74%) git-flow
5 2 (1.74%) JMeter
5 2 (1.74%) Locust
5 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.87%) TestRail
General
1 37 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.52%) Finance
3 17 (14.78%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Banking
5 7 (6.09%) Law
6 6 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.61%) Billing
8 3 (2.61%) Front Office
9 2 (1.74%) Local Government
9 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.87%) Electronics
10 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Military
10 1 (0.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.87%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (51.30%) Developer
2 20 (17.39%) Architect
3 18 (15.65%) Senior
4 16 (13.91%) Integration Developer
5 15 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 12 (10.43%) .NET Developer
6 12 (10.43%) Lead
6 12 (10.43%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (9.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 10 (8.70%) Azure Developer
9 8 (6.96%) C# Developer
10 7 (6.09%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (6.09%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Applications Developer
11 5 (4.35%) ASP.NET Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Azure Architect
11 5 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Power Apps Developer
12 4 (3.48%) Integration Architect
12 4 (3.48%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (40.87%) .NET
2 26 (22.61%) REST
3 21 (18.26%) .NET Core
4 18 (15.65%) SOAP
5 16 (13.91%) RESTful
6 15 (13.04%) JSON
7 13 (11.30%) React
8 11 (9.57%) HTML5 Canvas
9 10 (8.70%) AngularJS
9 10 (8.70%) ASP.NET
9 10 (8.70%) OAuth
9 10 (8.70%) XML
9 10 (8.70%) YAML
10 9 (7.83%) .NET Framework
10 9 (7.83%) ARM Templates
10 9 (7.83%) Node.js
11 8 (6.96%) HTML
12 7 (6.09%) Express.js
12 7 (6.09%) Web Services
12 7 (6.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.30%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.35%) Data Fabric
6 5 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.35%) Low-Code
7 4 (3.48%) Derivative
7 4 (3.48%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.61%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.61%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.74%) IVR
9 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.74%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.87%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.48%) Android
1 4 (3.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (63.48%) DevOps
2 61 (53.04%) CI/CD
3 39 (33.91%) Agile
4 38 (33.04%) API Management
5 29 (25.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (20.87%) Analytics
6 24 (20.87%) Microservices
7 22 (19.13%) Event-Driven
7 22 (19.13%) Log Analytics
8 21 (18.26%) Scrum
9 20 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (16.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 13 (11.30%) DevSecOps
11 13 (11.30%) Test Automation
12 12 (10.43%) Data Modelling
13 11 (9.57%) Mentoring
13 11 (9.57%) Validation
14 10 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (8.70%) RBAC
15 9 (7.83%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 57 (49.57%) C#
2 42 (36.52%) SQL
3 32 (27.83%) JavaScript
4 21 (18.26%) Bicep
4 21 (18.26%) Python
5 19 (16.52%) TypeScript
6 16 (13.91%) PowerShell
7 7 (6.09%) Java
8 6 (5.22%) Bash
8 6 (5.22%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.35%) X++
10 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.87%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.87%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 21 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.48%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.48%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.87%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) GDPR
2 4 (3.48%) MiFID
3 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (7.83%) Active Directory
1 9 (7.83%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (17.39%) Terraform
2 5 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.87%) Foglight
4 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (36.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.43%) Oracle
3 9 (7.83%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.22%) Databricks
5 4 (3.48%) Portware
5 4 (3.48%) SAP
6 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.87%) Ariba
7 1 (0.87%) Charles River
7 1 (0.87%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.87%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.87%) iManage
7 1 (0.87%) Kofax
7 1 (0.87%) Lotus
7 1 (0.87%) Northgate
7 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.87%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.87%) webMethods
7 1 (0.87%) Workday