Azure Service Bus Contracts

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Service Bus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 415 491
Rank change year-on-year +5 +76 -49
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 191 326 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.55% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.48% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 253 324
10th Percentile £421 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £515 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +2.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £645 £639
90th Percentile £728 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.73%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Service Bus is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Service Bus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Service Bus.

Daily rate trend for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Top 13 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +53 175 £563 -6.25% 66
London +60 143 £600 +1.69% 39
Work from Home +39 76 £563 -4.66% 48
UK excluding London +21 28 £550 -8.33% 30
North of England +29 9 £600 - 9
South East +12 9 £450 -25.00% 7
Yorkshire +17 6 £600 - 3
West Midlands +27 3 £600 +41.18% 3
South West +22 3 £456 -23.64% 3
Midlands +18 3 £600 +41.18% 3
North West +15 3 £600 - 5
East of England +17 2 £550 +69.23% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (7.85%) CMS
2 4 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (3.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 190 (99.48%) Azure
2 113 (59.16%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (35.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 60 (31.41%) Serverless
5 51 (26.70%) Azure Functions
6 49 (25.65%) Azure Monitor
7 39 (20.42%) Azure API Management
8 38 (19.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 31 (16.23%) Azure Key Vault
10 29 (15.18%) GitHub
11 28 (14.66%) PaaS
12 26 (13.61%) Azure AKS
13 21 (10.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (9.95%) Azure Storage
14 19 (9.95%) Entra ID
15 16 (8.38%) Power Platform
16 14 (7.33%) Azure Pipelines
16 14 (7.33%) NuGet
17 13 (6.81%) Azure App Service
18 12 (6.28%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.14%) Firewall
2 2 (1.05%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (36.65%) SQL Server
2 37 (19.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (9.42%) Redis
4 12 (6.28%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.71%) Big Data
7 7 (3.66%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.66%) InterSystems Cache
7 7 (3.66%) OLTP
8 4 (2.09%) GIS
8 4 (2.09%) Power BI
9 3 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.52%) Flink
Development Applications
1 65 (34.03%) Git
2 12 (6.28%) Postman
3 11 (5.76%) Visual Studio Team System
4 9 (4.71%) Cypress.io
4 9 (4.71%) JMeter
5 7 (3.66%) JIRA
5 7 (3.66%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.57%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.57%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.52%) GitLab
8 1 (0.52%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) Moq
8 1 (0.52%) MSTest
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (18.32%) Finance
2 28 (14.66%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.14%) Back Office
3 27 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.71%) Banking
4 9 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.14%) Front Office
7 5 (2.62%) German Language
8 4 (2.09%) Law
8 4 (2.09%) Retail
9 3 (1.57%) Local Government
10 2 (1.05%) Electronics
10 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 107 (56.02%) Developer
2 44 (23.04%) Senior
3 37 (19.37%) Senior Developer
4 30 (15.71%) Azure Developer
5 26 (13.61%) C# Developer
6 21 (10.99%) .NET Developer
6 21 (10.99%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (8.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 16 (8.38%) Backend Developer
9 15 (7.85%) Software Engineer
10 14 (7.33%) Architect
10 14 (7.33%) Lead
11 13 (6.81%) Azure Architect
11 13 (6.81%) Senior Backend Developer
12 11 (5.76%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 10 (5.24%) Integration Engineer
14 9 (4.71%) C# .NET Developer
14 9 (4.71%) C# Software Engineer
14 9 (4.71%) Python Developer
15 8 (4.19%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (56.54%) .NET
2 68 (35.60%) .NET Core
3 45 (23.56%) React
4 30 (15.71%) CSS
5 29 (15.18%) HTML
6 27 (14.14%) YAML
7 23 (12.04%) ASP.NET
8 19 (9.95%) jQuery
8 19 (9.95%) Kafka
9 17 (8.90%) Web Services
10 16 (8.38%) .NET Framework
10 16 (8.38%) Node.js
10 16 (8.38%) REST
10 16 (8.38%) XML
11 15 (7.85%) Swagger
12 12 (6.28%) ARM Templates
12 12 (6.28%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (5.76%) JSON
13 11 (5.76%) SignalR
14 10 (5.24%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.61%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.19%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.66%) Machine to Machine
4 5 (2.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.57%) Derivative
5 3 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.57%) N-Tier
5 3 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.57%) Solar Panel
5 3 (1.57%) Wiki
6 2 (1.05%) BYOD
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.90%) Linux
2 2 (1.05%) Windows
2 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (67.02%) DevOps
2 96 (50.26%) Agile
3 92 (48.17%) API Management
4 69 (36.13%) TDD
5 56 (29.32%) CI/CD
6 44 (23.04%) OO
7 42 (21.99%) Software Engineering
8 36 (18.85%) Clean Code
8 36 (18.85%) OOD
9 35 (18.32%) Scrum
9 35 (18.32%) Test Automation
10 29 (15.18%) Microservices
11 23 (12.04%) Front End Development
12 20 (10.47%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (9.95%) Full Stack Development
13 19 (9.95%) MVC
14 18 (9.42%) Migration
15 17 (8.90%) Deployment Automation
16 16 (8.38%) Event-Driven
17 15 (7.85%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 128 (67.02%) C#
2 75 (39.27%) SQL
3 52 (27.23%) Bicep
4 39 (20.42%) Python
5 37 (19.37%) JavaScript
6 27 (14.14%) PowerShell
7 26 (13.61%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.76%) Java
9 8 (4.19%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (8.38%) Degree
2 9 (4.71%) Azure Certification
3 7 (3.66%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.85%) Accessibility
1 15 (7.85%) WCAG
2 7 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.14%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.09%) QA
System Software
1 53 (27.75%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.33%) Docker
3 7 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (17.80%) Terraform
2 21 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.71%) Argo
4 5 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.05%) SCOM
6 1 (0.52%) Ansible
6 1 (0.52%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 74 (38.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.62%) SAP
3 4 (2.09%) Black Duck
3 4 (2.09%) Oracle
4 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.05%) Databricks
5 2 (1.05%) ESRI
5 2 (1.05%) Google
5 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.52%) BMC
6 1 (0.52%) JDA
6 1 (0.52%) Nintex
6 1 (0.52%) RedPrairie
6 1 (0.52%) Remedy
6 1 (0.52%) Sybase
6 1 (0.52%) VMware