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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 425 412
Rank change year-on-year -11 -13 +26
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 192 94 186
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.32% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 0.85% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 58 118
10th Percentile £357 £406 £421
25th Percentile £415 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £603 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.01% +0.42% +0.84%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £684
90th Percentile £671 £805 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £623 £550
% change year-on-year -19.68% +13.18% -8.33%
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 16,284 11,101 14,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.10% 38.17% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,111 7,773 10,237
10th Percentile £313 £313 £290
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 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £489
% change year-on-year -0.63% -2.25% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 212 358
10th Percentile £15.52 £15.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -18.64%
75th Percentile £63.75 £42.23 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.88 £62.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.31 £24.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +84.60% +35.44% -19.45%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -35 157 £500 -19.35% 57
London -11 106 £500 -20.48% 27
Work from Home -10 57 £500 -17.01% 42
UK excluding London -75 53 £500 -19.68% 43
Midlands -58 13 £455 +22.97% 9
South East -55 11 £643 +2.88% 7
North of England - 11 £500 - 13
East of England -27 8 £600 - 4
West Midlands -46 7 £460 +105.36% 3
East Midlands -29 6 £450 -4.76% 6
North West - 6 £575 - 8
Wales -6 5 £370 +131.25% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £457 - 4
Scotland +11 4 £358 - 7
South West -20 1 - - 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 35 (18.23%) SharePoint
2 17 (8.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.73%) HCL Notes
4 10 (5.21%) Mendix
5 3 (1.56%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.56%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (7.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.04%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.52%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 192 (100.00%) Azure
2 97 (50.52%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (47.92%) Serverless
4 85 (44.27%) Azure Functions
5 80 (41.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 58 (30.21%) Azure Monitor
7 56 (29.17%) GitHub
8 51 (26.56%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (26.04%) Azure Key Vault
10 46 (23.96%) Entra ID
11 41 (21.35%) Power Platform
12 40 (20.83%) Dynamics 365
12 40 (20.83%) Power Automate
13 35 (18.23%) Azure Event Grid
13 35 (18.23%) Microsoft 365
14 34 (17.71%) Azure API Management
15 32 (16.67%) Azure AKS
16 29 (15.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 29 (15.10%) PowerApps
17 27 (14.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.17%) HTTP
2 6 (3.13%) Firewall
2 6 (3.13%) Network Security
2 6 (3.13%) SMS
3 2 (1.04%) LAN
3 2 (1.04%) MPLS
3 2 (1.04%) VPN
3 2 (1.04%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (23.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 28 (14.58%) SQL Server
3 16 (8.33%) Power BI
4 11 (5.73%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.65%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.56%) Metadata
8 3 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.04%) 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 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.08%) Selenium
3 3 (1.56%) JIRA
3 3 (1.56%) NUnit
3 3 (1.56%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.04%) GitLab
4 2 (1.04%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.52%) Mocha
5 1 (0.52%) Moq
5 1 (0.52%) Serilog
General
1 32 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 32 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.10%) Finance
3 11 (5.73%) Financial Institution
4 7 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (3.65%) Marketing
5 6 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.60%) Banking
7 3 (1.56%) Aviation
8 2 (1.04%) Law
8 2 (1.04%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Billing
9 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 99 (51.56%) Developer
2 33 (17.19%) Azure Developer
3 30 (15.63%) Architect
4 25 (13.02%) Senior
5 21 (10.94%) .NET Developer
6 20 (10.42%) Lead
7 19 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (8.85%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.81%) C# Developer
9 15 (7.81%) Power Platform Developer
10 11 (5.73%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 9 (4.69%) Consultant
11 9 (4.69%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 8 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.17%) Node.js Developer
12 8 (4.17%) Technical Leader
13 7 (3.65%) Azure Architect
13 7 (3.65%) C# .NET Developer
13 7 (3.65%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (49.48%) .NET
2 53 (27.60%) REST
3 35 (18.23%) .NET Core
4 29 (15.10%) React
5 25 (13.02%) .NET Framework
5 25 (13.02%) RESTful
6 23 (11.98%) AngularJS
6 23 (11.98%) Microsoft Graph
6 23 (11.98%) Node.js
7 21 (10.94%) SOAP
8 19 (9.90%) Kafka
9 17 (8.85%) OAuth
9 17 (8.85%) Web Services
10 16 (8.33%) Entity Framework
11 15 (7.81%) OAuth2
12 14 (7.29%) HTML5 Canvas
13 12 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (5.73%) ASP.NET Web API
14 11 (5.73%) JSON
15 9 (4.69%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.77%) Low-Code
3 11 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.17%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.56%) IoT
8 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.04%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.52%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.52%) Pricing Data
10 1 (0.52%) State Machine
10 1 (0.52%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (71.88%) DevOps
2 113 (58.85%) CI/CD
3 59 (30.73%) API Management
3 59 (30.73%) Microservices
4 46 (23.96%) Event-Driven
5 44 (22.92%) Analytics
6 43 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (21.88%) Observability
8 36 (18.75%) Containerisation
9 35 (18.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 30 (15.63%) Log Analytics
11 29 (15.10%) Integration Patterns
12 27 (14.06%) Agile
13 26 (13.54%) RBAC
14 24 (12.50%) Data Modelling
15 22 (11.46%) Migration
15 22 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
17 18 (9.38%) AI
17 18 (9.38%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 112 (58.33%) C#
2 75 (39.06%) SQL
3 34 (17.71%) Bicep
3 34 (17.71%) JavaScript
4 31 (16.15%) PowerShell
5 23 (11.98%) TypeScript
6 22 (11.46%) Python
7 18 (9.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (5.73%) Formula Language
8 11 (5.73%) Java
8 11 (5.73%) LotusScript
9 4 (2.08%) X++
10 1 (0.52%) Korn
10 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.23%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.77%) Degree
4 9 (4.69%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.08%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) 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 9 (4.69%) GDPR
2 7 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.13%) QA
4 5 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.56%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.04%) FedRAMP
6 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.04%) 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 (17.19%) Docker
2 18 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (24.48%) Terraform
2 33 (17.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.08%) Ansible
4 4 (2.08%) Grafana
5 3 (1.56%) Istio
5 3 (1.56%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.56%) linkerd
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (49.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.46%) Databricks
3 13 (6.77%) OpenAI
3 13 (6.77%) Oracle
4 11 (5.73%) Lotus
5 10 (5.21%) Kofax
6 3 (1.56%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.56%) Informatica
6 3 (1.56%) SAP
6 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.56%) Talend
7 2 (1.04%) Foundry
8 1 (0.52%) Aderant
8 1 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.52%) Charles River
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic
8 1 (0.52%) Solace
8 1 (0.52%) Virgin Media