Azure Service Bus Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure Service Bus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 513 557
Rank change year-on-year -22 +44 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure Service Bus 222 166 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 1.05% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 190 125 173
10th Percentile £49,250 £47,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,625 £104,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.13% +14.81% +17.39%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26,886 15,833 33,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.46% 32.35% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 17,488 11,041 25,867
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,842
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.26% -7.56%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Service Bus relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure Service Bus job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Service Bus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Service Bus within the UK over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -23 195 £75,000 -7.98% 55
London +44 114 £82,500 -2.94% 31
UK excluding London -87 93 £65,000 -16.13% 34
Work from Home +8 87 £69,310 -13.36% 31
North of England -25 34 £69,310 -0.99% 4
South East -74 19 £65,000 -21.21% 22
North West -2 16 £65,000 -13.33% 3
Wales -38 16 £44,078 -15.23% 1
East of England +2 13 £72,500 - 4
Yorkshire -26 10 £69,310 +15.52% 1
Midlands -37 8 £62,500 -13.79% 3
North East - 8 £60,000 -
West Midlands -21 6 £62,500 -13.79% 2
Scotland +14 2 £70,000 +22.27% 1
East Midlands -22 2 £75,000 - 1
South West -67 1 £60,000 -22.58% 1

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 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.25%) IIS
3 4 (1.80%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (10.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.70%) Carpe Diem
2 6 (2.70%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.80%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.45%) Magento
5 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.45%) Shopify
5 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 222 (100.00%) Azure
2 104 (46.85%) Azure Logic Apps
3 99 (44.59%) Azure DevOps
4 72 (32.43%) Serverless
5 65 (29.28%) Azure Functions
6 62 (27.93%) Power Platform
7 50 (22.52%) Azure AKS
8 44 (19.82%) Azure Monitor
9 42 (18.92%) Azure Event Grid
10 41 (18.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 35 (15.77%) Azure Key Vault
11 35 (15.77%) Power Automate
12 33 (14.86%) PowerApps
13 26 (11.71%) Dynamics 365
14 23 (10.36%) AWS
15 18 (8.11%) GitHub
16 17 (7.66%) PaaS
17 16 (7.21%) Azure API Management
18 14 (6.31%) Azure Storage
18 14 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.86%) DMARC
2 7 (3.15%) Firewall
3 5 (2.25%) MQTT
4 4 (1.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 27 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (11.71%) SQL Server
4 19 (8.56%) MongoDB
5 18 (8.11%) Power BI
6 8 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.70%) Redis
9 4 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.80%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.90%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.90%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.90%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.90%) Tableau
12 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.45%) MySQL
12 1 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 25 (11.26%) Git
2 18 (8.11%) GitLab
3 4 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.35%) JIRA
5 2 (0.90%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.90%) git-flow
5 2 (0.90%) NUnit
5 2 (0.90%) Selenium
5 2 (0.90%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.45%) Postman
6 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (30.18%) Finance
2 42 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.21%) Legal
5 11 (4.95%) Law
6 9 (4.05%) Retail
7 8 (3.60%) Banking
7 8 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.60%) Marketing
8 7 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Advertising
10 1 (0.45%) Billing
10 1 (0.45%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (42.79%) Developer
2 75 (33.78%) Senior
3 46 (20.72%) Lead
4 44 (19.82%) Senior Developer
5 36 (16.22%) Architect
6 33 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (11.71%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (9.01%) .NET Developer
9 19 (8.56%) Azure Developer
9 19 (8.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 19 (8.56%) Technical Leader
10 18 (8.11%) Integration Developer
10 18 (8.11%) Senior DevOps
10 18 (8.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 15 (6.76%) Integration Engineer
12 13 (5.86%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.95%) C# Developer
14 10 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (4.50%) Lead Developer
15 9 (4.05%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (44.14%) .NET
2 43 (19.37%) REST
3 33 (14.86%) Node.js
4 30 (13.51%) RESTful
5 29 (13.06%) OAuth
6 27 (12.16%) OAuth2
7 25 (11.26%) .NET Core
8 23 (10.36%) YAML
9 18 (8.11%) React
10 17 (7.66%) .NET Framework
10 17 (7.66%) Spring
10 17 (7.66%) Spring Boot
11 16 (7.21%) ASP.NET
11 16 (7.21%) Kafka
12 15 (6.76%) Blazor
13 13 (5.86%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (4.95%) JSON
15 10 (4.50%) ADO
16 9 (4.05%) ARM Templates
16 9 (4.05%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (21.17%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.46%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.05%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.60%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.15%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.15%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.35%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.90%) IoT
10 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.45%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.45%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.11%) Linux
1 18 (8.11%) Windows
2 14 (6.31%) Unix
3 10 (4.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (62.16%) DevOps
2 126 (56.76%) CI/CD
3 91 (40.99%) Agile
4 88 (39.64%) Microservices
5 77 (34.68%) Event-Driven
5 77 (34.68%) Mentoring
6 52 (23.42%) API Management
6 52 (23.42%) Test Automation
7 45 (20.27%) Integration Patterns
8 39 (17.57%) AI
8 39 (17.57%) Containerisation
8 39 (17.57%) Scrum
9 38 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (17.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 38 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (17.12%) Roadmaps
10 29 (13.06%) API Design
10 29 (13.06%) CRM
11 28 (12.61%) Performance Optimisation
12 25 (11.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 114 (51.35%) C#
2 76 (34.23%) SQL
3 40 (18.02%) TypeScript
4 35 (15.77%) Java
5 34 (15.32%) JavaScript
6 27 (12.16%) Python
7 16 (7.21%) Bicep
8 15 (6.76%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.80%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.90%) X++
11 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.45%) Delphi
11 1 (0.45%) VB
11 1 (0.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 23 (10.36%) Azure Certification
2 8 (3.60%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.15%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.70%) Degree
5 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.71%) QA
2 10 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.60%) GDPR
4 6 (2.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 5 (2.25%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (22.52%) Docker
2 6 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (20.27%) Kubernetes
2 41 (18.47%) Terraform
3 18 (8.11%) Argo
4 7 (3.15%) Grafana
5 5 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.80%) Ansible
Vendors
1 98 (44.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.86%) SendGrid
3 9 (4.05%) Intapp
4 7 (3.15%) Databricks
5 6 (2.70%) Aderant
5 6 (2.70%) iManage
6 5 (2.25%) Sage
6 5 (2.25%) Workday
7 4 (1.80%) Concur
7 4 (1.80%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.35%) HighQ
9 2 (0.90%) Informatica
9 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.90%) SAP
10 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.45%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.45%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.45%) WooCommerce