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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 408 392
Rank change year-on-year -24 -16 +74
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 148 122 203
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.38% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 1.05% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 72 133
10th Percentile £383 £479 £425
25th Percentile £415 £553 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £588 £675 £675
90th Percentile £683 £871 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -19.40% +4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £48.00 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile £67.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 14,068 11,674 14,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.12% 36.27% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,673 7,768 10,464
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 172 252
10th Percentile £14.47 £17.44 £14.26
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +18.46% +3.18%
75th Percentile £57.38 £43.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £68.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £25.34 £20.50
% change year-on-year +7.38% +23.61% +5.13%

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 6 January 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 6 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK

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 6 January 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 -33 125 £500 -20.00% 84
London +5 89 £500 -22.36% 23
Work from Home -11 51 £500 -16.67% 28
UK excluding London -72 31 £504 -19.40% 74
Midlands -29 12 £449 -7.53% 9
South East -44 9 £563 -10.00% 21
East Midlands -16 7 £450 +21.62% 7
West Midlands -32 5 £425 -29.17% 2
North of England - 5 £500 - 23
North West - 5 £500 - 16
East of England -14 2 £725 - 6
Yorkshire - 2 - - 5
Wales - 2 - - 5
South West - 1 - - 9

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 20 (13.51%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.08%) HCL Notes
3 8 (5.41%) Mendix
4 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.03%) ArcGIS
5 3 (2.03%) Confluence
5 3 (2.03%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.03%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.03%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.03%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.35%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.35%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 147 (99.32%) Azure
2 74 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 68 (45.95%) Serverless
4 65 (43.92%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (43.24%) Azure Functions
6 43 (29.05%) Azure Monitor
7 41 (27.70%) GitHub
8 38 (25.68%) Dynamics 365
9 36 (24.32%) Azure Key Vault
10 34 (22.97%) GitHub Actions
10 34 (22.97%) Power Automate
10 34 (22.97%) Power Platform
11 29 (19.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 27 (18.24%) Azure API Management
13 26 (17.57%) Azure Event Grid
13 26 (17.57%) Entra ID
13 26 (17.57%) PowerApps
14 22 (14.86%) PaaS
15 18 (12.16%) Azure AKS
16 16 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.41%) HTTP
2 6 (4.05%) Firewall
2 6 (4.05%) Network Security
3 4 (2.70%) SMS
4 2 (1.35%) LAN
4 2 (1.35%) MPLS
4 2 (1.35%) VPN
4 2 (1.35%) WAN
5 1 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (23.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 27 (18.24%) SQL Server
3 17 (11.49%) Power BI
4 9 (6.08%) Oracle Database
5 7 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.70%) Metadata
8 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.35%) Redis
10 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.68%) HDInsight
10 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (8.78%) Git
2 9 (6.08%) Postman
3 5 (3.38%) JIRA
3 5 (3.38%) Selenium
4 2 (1.35%) git-flow
4 2 (1.35%) GitLab
4 2 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.35%) JMeter
4 2 (1.35%) Locust
4 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) Mocha
5 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.68%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.68%) TestRail
General
1 38 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.92%) Finance
3 26 (17.57%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.41%) Banking
4 8 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.73%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.05%) Marketing
7 5 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Aviation
8 3 (2.03%) Billing
8 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.35%) Front Office
9 2 (1.35%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Electronics
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Military
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (54.05%) Developer
2 24 (16.22%) Architect
3 22 (14.86%) Senior
4 20 (13.51%) Azure Developer
5 15 (10.14%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.78%) .NET Developer
6 13 (8.78%) Lead
6 13 (8.78%) Power Platform Developer
7 12 (8.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 11 (7.43%) C# Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Integration Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.41%) Azure Architect
10 8 (5.41%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (4.73%) Consultant
12 6 (4.05%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 5 (3.38%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (45.95%) .NET
2 37 (25.00%) REST
3 29 (19.59%) .NET Core
4 22 (14.86%) React
5 20 (13.51%) Node.js
6 18 (12.16%) AngularJS
6 18 (12.16%) RESTful
7 15 (10.14%) HTML5 Canvas
7 15 (10.14%) OAuth
7 15 (10.14%) SOAP
8 12 (8.11%) .NET Framework
8 12 (8.11%) JSON
9 11 (7.43%) Kafka
10 9 (6.08%) Entity Framework
11 8 (5.41%) Express.js
11 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (5.41%) PyTorch
11 8 (5.41%) TensorFlow
12 7 (4.73%) JWT
12 7 (4.73%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.24%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.78%) Low-Code
3 11 (7.43%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.41%) AI Agents
6 7 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.38%) Data Fabric
7 5 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.38%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.38%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.35%) Derivative
8 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.35%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.35%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.35%) IVR
8 2 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (65.54%) DevOps
2 89 (60.14%) CI/CD
3 45 (30.41%) API Management
4 40 (27.03%) Microservices
5 38 (25.68%) Analytics
6 35 (23.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (22.97%) Agile
8 33 (22.30%) Event-Driven
9 30 (20.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 26 (17.57%) Containerisation
11 25 (16.89%) Observability
12 24 (16.22%) Log Analytics
13 23 (15.54%) RBAC
14 21 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (14.19%) Test Automation
15 20 (13.51%) Integration Patterns
16 18 (12.16%) Data Modelling
17 16 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (10.14%) Data Management
19 14 (9.46%) AI
Programming Languages
1 87 (58.78%) C#
2 67 (45.27%) SQL
3 38 (25.68%) JavaScript
4 32 (21.62%) Bicep
5 21 (14.19%) Python
6 20 (13.51%) PowerShell
6 20 (13.51%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.08%) Formula Language
7 9 (6.08%) LotusScript
8 6 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.70%) X++
10 3 (2.03%) Java
10 3 (2.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.05%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.38%) Degree
5 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.70%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.35%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.78%) GDPR
2 6 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.70%) QA
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.68%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.68%) NCSC
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (12.84%) Docker
2 16 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (29.05%) Terraform
2 17 (11.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.70%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 73 (49.32%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.49%) Databricks
3 13 (8.78%) Oracle
4 12 (8.11%) OpenAI
5 9 (6.08%) Lotus
6 8 (5.41%) Kofax
6 8 (5.41%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.03%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.03%) Informatica
7 3 (2.03%) SAP
7 3 (2.03%) Talend
8 2 (1.35%) Portware
9 1 (0.68%) Ariba
9 1 (0.68%) Charles River
9 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.68%) iManage
9 1 (0.68%) Solace
9 1 (0.68%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.68%) Workday