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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 442 368
Rank change year-on-year -49 -74 +46
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 172 109 208
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.33% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.92% 0.89% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 66 123
10th Percentile £418 £347 £430
25th Percentile £463 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £622 £584 £675
90th Percentile £668 £669 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £600
% change year-on-year +5.82% -21.25% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.25 -
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 18,753 12,245 13,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 37.21% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,377 8,214 9,247
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £617 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 624 311 273
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%
75th Percentile £69.00 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.81 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -19.36%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -74 147 £550 +8.64% 85
London -27 90 £575 +9.89% 50
UK excluding London -73 60 £500 +5.82% 46
Work from Home -60 55 £525 +5.00% 50
East of England -3 17 £550 -18.52% 3
North of England -48 15 £525 +16.67% 6
North West -45 9 £600 +33.33% 4
Midlands -55 8 £500 +1.01% 9
South East -64 8 £460 -24.90% 17
East Midlands -5 6 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 £460 - 2
Scotland -8 5 £358 - 1
South West -47 5 £470 +25.33% 5
Wales -12 2 £310 +31.91%
West Midlands -60 2 £650 +31.31% 8

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 18 (10.47%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.58%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.58%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.16%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.58%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 172 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (43.02%) Azure Logic Apps
3 64 (37.21%) Serverless
4 63 (36.63%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (31.40%) Azure Functions
6 44 (25.58%) Dynamics 365
7 42 (24.42%) Power Platform
8 34 (19.77%) Azure AKS
8 34 (19.77%) Azure Event Grid
9 33 (19.19%) Entra ID
10 29 (16.86%) Azure Key Vault
10 29 (16.86%) GitHub
10 29 (16.86%) PowerApps
11 28 (16.28%) Azure Monitor
12 26 (15.12%) AWS
13 24 (13.95%) Power Automate
14 23 (13.37%) Azure API Management
15 20 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (11.63%) PaaS
16 18 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.49%) HTTP
2 3 (1.74%) Network Security
2 3 (1.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.58%) DKIM
3 1 (0.58%) DMARC
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (9.88%) Power BI
3 9 (5.23%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.91%) Metadata
7 4 (2.33%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.74%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.74%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.58%) Redis
10 1 (0.58%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 23 (13.37%) Git
2 13 (7.56%) JIRA
3 8 (4.65%) SpecFlow
4 4 (2.33%) NUnit
4 4 (2.33%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.16%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.58%) GitLab
6 1 (0.58%) Moq
6 1 (0.58%) Postman
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) Serilog
6 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.58%) TestRail
6 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (17.44%) Finance
2 24 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.21%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.74%) Local Government
5 3 (1.74%) Marketing
5 3 (1.74%) Retail
6 2 (1.16%) Banking
6 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.16%) General Ledger
6 2 (1.16%) Law
6 2 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (0.58%) Automotive
7 1 (0.58%) Billing
7 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.58%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 81 (47.09%) Developer
2 30 (17.44%) Architect
3 27 (15.70%) Senior
4 25 (14.53%) Azure Developer
5 22 (12.79%) .NET Developer
6 17 (9.88%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (9.88%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (8.72%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 15 (8.72%) Lead
8 13 (7.56%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.98%) C# Developer
10 9 (5.23%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Integration Architect
11 8 (4.65%) Power Platform Developer
12 7 (4.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) Microsoft 365 Developer
13 6 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.49%) Integration Specialist
13 6 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (55.23%) .NET
2 56 (32.56%) REST
3 23 (13.37%) RESTful
4 22 (12.79%) .NET Core
4 22 (12.79%) .NET Framework
4 22 (12.79%) Kafka
5 20 (11.63%) OAuth
5 20 (11.63%) RabbitMQ
5 20 (11.63%) SOAP
6 18 (10.47%) JSON
7 16 (9.30%) React
8 15 (8.72%) Middleware
8 15 (8.72%) XML
9 14 (8.14%) Swagger
10 13 (7.56%) Microsoft Graph
10 13 (7.56%) OAuth2
10 13 (7.56%) OpenAPI
11 12 (6.98%) Web Services
12 11 (6.40%) AngularJS
13 9 (5.23%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 53 (30.81%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.07%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.49%) IoT
7 5 (2.91%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.91%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.91%) Wiki
8 4 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.33%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.33%) NHS
9 3 (1.74%) BYOD
9 3 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Licensing
10 1 (0.58%) Pricing Data
10 1 (0.58%) State Machine
10 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (62.79%) DevOps
2 99 (57.56%) CI/CD
3 65 (37.79%) Event-Driven
4 54 (31.40%) Agile
5 47 (27.33%) API Management
5 47 (27.33%) Microservices
6 42 (24.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 36 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (17.44%) Integration Patterns
9 28 (16.28%) Containerisation
10 27 (15.70%) Analytics
11 22 (12.79%) Migration
11 22 (12.79%) Observability
11 22 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (11.05%) AI
13 19 (11.05%) Data Modelling
13 19 (11.05%) Mentoring
14 18 (10.47%) TDD
14 18 (10.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 82 (47.67%) C#
2 41 (23.84%) SQL
3 28 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 26 (15.12%) Python
5 21 (12.21%) Bicep
6 16 (9.30%) Java
6 16 (9.30%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.14%) PowerShell
8 13 (7.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.91%) X++
10 1 (0.58%) Formula Language
10 1 (0.58%) LotusScript
10 1 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 48 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.88%) Degree
4 16 (9.30%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.49%) QA
2 5 (2.91%) GDPR
3 3 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.74%) NIST
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (20.93%) Docker
2 10 (5.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (22.09%) Kubernetes
2 27 (15.70%) Terraform
3 5 (2.91%) Grafana
3 5 (2.91%) Istio
3 5 (2.91%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.33%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.33%) linkerd
5 1 (0.58%) Argo
Vendors
1 85 (49.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.23%) Oracle
3 8 (4.65%) MuleSoft
4 6 (3.49%) SAP
5 5 (2.91%) Databricks
5 5 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.91%) Workday
6 4 (2.33%) Google
6 4 (2.33%) IBM
6 4 (2.33%) Informatica
6 4 (2.33%) TIBCO
6 4 (2.33%) WSO2
7 2 (1.16%) Foundry
7 2 (1.16%) Infor
7 2 (1.16%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.58%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.58%) Concur
8 1 (0.58%) iManage
8 1 (0.58%) New Relic
8 1 (0.58%) SnapLogic