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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 427 391
Rank change year-on-year -5 -36 +88
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 179 101 204
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.33% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 0.88% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 58 133
10th Percentile £353 £455 £428
25th Percentile £413 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £688
90th Percentile £653 £805 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -19.35% +3.33% -
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 15,133 11,470 14,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.94% 37.39% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,388 7,693 10,645
10th Percentile £310 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £636 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 171 321
10th Percentile £14.80 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £59.86 £44.56 £53.00
90th Percentile £79.05 £75.50 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.43 £24.66 £20.77
% change year-on-year +59.89% +18.73% +3.85%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -5 146 £500 -18.20% 52
London +13 101 £500 -18.70% 15
Work from Home 0 59 £500 -16.67% 38
UK excluding London -62 46 £500 -19.35% 43
Midlands -39 14 £455 -3.70% 13
South East -52 11 £575 -7.63% 14
East Midlands -16 7 £450 -4.76% 4
West Midlands - 7 £460 - 9
East of England -17 6 £600 - 1
Wales - 6 £370 - 2
North of England - 5 £500 - 9
North West - 5 £500 - 8
Scotland +9 3 £358 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 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 25 (13.97%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.59%) HCL Notes
3 9 (5.03%) Mendix
4 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.68%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.68%) Confluence
6 2 (1.12%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (7.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.68%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.12%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.56%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.56%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) Azure
2 85 (47.49%) Serverless
3 84 (46.93%) Azure Logic Apps
4 82 (45.81%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (44.69%) Azure Functions
6 51 (28.49%) Azure Monitor
7 49 (27.37%) GitHub
8 43 (24.02%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (22.91%) Dynamics 365
10 40 (22.35%) Azure Key Vault
11 37 (20.67%) Power Automate
12 36 (20.11%) Power Platform
13 35 (19.55%) Azure Event Grid
14 33 (18.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 32 (17.88%) Azure API Management
16 31 (17.32%) Entra ID
17 27 (15.08%) PowerApps
18 26 (14.53%) Azure AKS
19 25 (13.97%) PaaS
20 22 (12.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) HTTP
2 6 (3.35%) Firewall
2 6 (3.35%) Network Security
2 6 (3.35%) SMS
3 2 (1.12%) LAN
3 2 (1.12%) MPLS
3 2 (1.12%) VPN
3 2 (1.12%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 30 (16.76%) SQL Server
3 15 (8.38%) Power BI
4 10 (5.59%) Oracle Database
5 9 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.35%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.68%) Metadata
8 3 (1.68%) Redis
8 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (7.82%) Git
2 8 (4.47%) Postman
3 6 (3.35%) Selenium
4 5 (2.79%) JIRA
5 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.68%) NUnit
7 2 (1.12%) git-flow
7 2 (1.12%) GitLab
7 2 (1.12%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.12%) JMeter
7 2 (1.12%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.12%) Locust
7 2 (1.12%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.56%) Mocha
8 1 (0.56%) Moq
8 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.56%) Serilog
8 1 (0.56%) TestRail
General
1 37 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.20%) Public Sector
3 26 (14.53%) Finance
4 9 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (5.03%) Financial Institution
5 8 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.91%) Marketing
7 6 (3.35%) Banking
8 3 (1.68%) Aviation
8 3 (1.68%) Law
9 2 (1.12%) Billing
9 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Legal
9 2 (1.12%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 93 (51.96%) Developer
2 29 (16.20%) Architect
3 26 (14.53%) Azure Developer
4 24 (13.41%) Senior
5 21 (11.73%) Lead
6 16 (8.94%) Senior Developer
7 15 (8.38%) .NET Developer
7 15 (8.38%) Power Platform Developer
8 13 (7.26%) C# Developer
9 12 (6.70%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 11 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (6.15%) Consultant
11 10 (5.59%) Azure Architect
11 10 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (5.03%) Integration Developer
13 8 (4.47%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 8 (4.47%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.47%) Node.js Developer
14 7 (3.91%) Integration Engineer
14 7 (3.91%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (46.37%) .NET
2 46 (25.70%) REST
3 35 (19.55%) .NET Core
4 25 (13.97%) React
4 25 (13.97%) RESTful
5 21 (11.73%) Node.js
6 20 (11.17%) AngularJS
7 18 (10.06%) OAuth
7 18 (10.06%) SOAP
8 17 (9.50%) .NET Framework
9 16 (8.94%) Kafka
10 15 (8.38%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (7.82%) Entity Framework
12 12 (6.70%) JSON
13 11 (6.15%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (6.15%) OAuth2
14 10 (5.59%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (5.03%) JWT
15 9 (5.03%) Swagger
15 9 (5.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.26%) Low-Code
3 12 (6.70%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.47%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.23%) Data Fabric
8 4 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.56%) Derivative
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.56%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (67.04%) DevOps
2 107 (59.78%) CI/CD
3 57 (31.84%) API Management
4 51 (28.49%) Microservices
5 43 (24.02%) Event-Driven
6 41 (22.91%) Analytics
6 41 (22.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (20.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 34 (18.99%) Containerisation
9 32 (17.88%) Agile
10 30 (16.76%) Observability
11 26 (14.53%) Log Analytics
12 24 (13.41%) Integration Patterns
12 24 (13.41%) RBAC
12 24 (13.41%) Test Automation
13 22 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (10.61%) Data Modelling
15 18 (10.06%) AI
16 17 (9.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 104 (58.10%) C#
2 76 (42.46%) SQL
3 38 (21.23%) JavaScript
4 36 (20.11%) Bicep
5 24 (13.41%) TypeScript
6 22 (12.29%) PowerShell
7 21 (11.73%) Python
8 10 (5.59%) Formula Language
8 10 (5.59%) LotusScript
9 9 (5.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (4.47%) Java
11 4 (2.23%) X++
12 3 (1.68%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.70%) Degree
4 11 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.23%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.38%) GDPR
2 8 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.79%) QA
4 3 (1.68%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.12%) FedRAMP
5 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.56%) MiFID
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (16.76%) Docker
2 15 (8.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (25.70%) Terraform
2 28 (15.64%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.23%) Ansible
5 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 84 (46.93%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.73%) Databricks
3 13 (7.26%) OpenAI
4 12 (6.70%) Oracle
5 10 (5.59%) Lotus
6 9 (5.03%) Kofax
7 8 (4.47%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.68%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.68%) Informatica
8 3 (1.68%) Talend
9 2 (1.12%) Foundry
10 1 (0.56%) Charles River
10 1 (0.56%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.56%) iManage
10 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.56%) Portware
10 1 (0.56%) SAP
10 1 (0.56%) Solace
10 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.56%) Workday