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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 429 513
Rank change year-on-year +67 +84 -58
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 213 281 378
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.38% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 220 300
10th Percentile £425 £413 £413
25th Percentile £496 £520 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £672 £650 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -6.25% +26.32% +5.56%

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 13,954 20,405 33,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.46% 36.39% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,918 14,764 24,592
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 331 395
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -43.53% +69.64% +1.82%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.75 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £68.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.63
% change year-on-year -35.27% +40.13% -1.88%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +75 199 £600 - 53
London +100 173 £575 -2.95% 30
Work from Home +57 75 £569 -3.60% 37
UK excluding London -1 24 £563 -6.25% 22
North of England +25 8 £600 - 10
South East 0 8 £450 -28.00% 4
Yorkshire +15 5 £600 - 1
North West +19 3 £600 -4.00% 6
Midlands +17 3 £600 +41.18% 1
West Midlands +14 3 £600 +41.18% 1
South West +8 2 £563 -5.86% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Scotland +34 1 £550 +4.76% 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 (7.04%) CMS
2 3 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.94%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (2.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 213 (100.00%) Azure
2 116 (54.46%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (31.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 57 (26.76%) Serverless
5 54 (25.35%) Azure Monitor
6 46 (21.60%) Azure Functions
7 36 (16.90%) Azure API Management
8 34 (15.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 33 (15.49%) Azure AKS
10 32 (15.02%) Entra ID
11 31 (14.55%) Azure Key Vault
12 27 (12.68%) PaaS
13 25 (11.74%) Azure App Service
13 25 (11.74%) GitHub
14 22 (10.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (9.86%) Azure Storage
16 17 (7.98%) Azure Event Grid
17 16 (7.51%) Power Platform
18 14 (6.57%) Azure Pipelines
19 13 (6.10%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.82%) Firewall
2 2 (0.94%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (40.85%) SQL Server
2 43 (20.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 34 (15.96%) Redis
4 22 (10.33%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.23%) Big Data
7 8 (3.76%) InterSystems Cache
8 7 (3.29%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.29%) OLTP
9 6 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.88%) GIS
10 4 (1.88%) Power BI
11 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 65 (30.52%) Git
2 11 (5.16%) Postman
3 10 (4.69%) JMeter
4 9 (4.23%) Cypress.io
5 8 (3.76%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.29%) SpecFlow
6 7 (3.29%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (1.41%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.94%) JIRA
9 1 (0.47%) GitLab
9 1 (0.47%) Maven
9 1 (0.47%) Moq
9 1 (0.47%) MSTest
9 1 (0.47%) NUnit
9 1 (0.47%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) Serilog
9 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (19.72%) Finance
2 34 (15.96%) Back Office
2 34 (15.96%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.98%) Front Office
5 14 (6.57%) Banking
6 12 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.35%) German Language
8 5 (2.35%) Law
9 4 (1.88%) Local Government
10 3 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.94%) Electronics
11 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.94%) Marketing
11 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Police
12 1 (0.47%) Publishing
12 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 130 (61.03%) Developer
2 60 (28.17%) Senior
3 47 (22.07%) Senior Developer
4 35 (16.43%) Azure Developer
5 32 (15.02%) C# Developer
6 27 (12.68%) .NET Developer
7 23 (10.80%) Backend Developer
8 20 (9.39%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (8.92%) Senior Backend Developer
10 18 (8.45%) Software Engineer
11 17 (7.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 15 (7.04%) Full Stack Developer
13 14 (6.57%) Lead
14 12 (5.63%) Architect
14 12 (5.63%) Product Owner
15 11 (5.16%) Python Developer
15 11 (5.16%) Senior Front-End Developer
16 10 (4.69%) Azure Architect
16 10 (4.69%) C# Software Engineer
16 10 (4.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (59.15%) .NET
2 78 (36.62%) .NET Core
3 58 (27.23%) React
4 43 (20.19%) HTML
5 42 (19.72%) CSS
6 31 (14.55%) ASP.NET
7 26 (12.21%) Kafka
8 25 (11.74%) YAML
9 24 (11.27%) XML
10 21 (9.86%) .NET Framework
11 19 (8.92%) jQuery
12 17 (7.98%) Node.js
12 17 (7.98%) Web Services
13 16 (7.51%) ASP.NET Core
14 14 (6.57%) Swagger
15 13 (6.10%) REST
16 12 (5.63%) AngularJS
16 12 (5.63%) ARM Templates
16 12 (5.63%) Entity Framework
17 11 (5.16%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.96%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.29%) Machine to Machine
5 6 (2.82%) Derivative
5 6 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.88%) Mobile Payment
6 4 (1.88%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.88%) Solar Panel
7 3 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.41%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.94%) Wiki
9 1 (0.47%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.98%) Linux
2 5 (2.35%) Unix
3 2 (0.94%) Windows
3 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (62.91%) DevOps
2 111 (52.11%) Agile
3 89 (41.78%) API Management
4 78 (36.62%) TDD
5 59 (27.70%) CI/CD
6 44 (20.66%) Software Engineering
7 43 (20.19%) OO
7 43 (20.19%) Scrum
8 40 (18.78%) Clean Code
9 37 (17.37%) OOD
10 32 (15.02%) Test Automation
11 31 (14.55%) Microservices
12 26 (12.21%) Full Stack Development
13 23 (10.80%) Front End Development
14 20 (9.39%) B2C
14 20 (9.39%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (9.39%) Event-Driven
15 18 (8.45%) MVC
16 17 (7.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 17 (7.98%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 138 (64.79%) C#
2 77 (36.15%) SQL
3 62 (29.11%) Bicep
4 50 (23.47%) JavaScript
5 42 (19.72%) TypeScript
6 40 (18.78%) Python
7 35 (16.43%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.16%) Java
9 9 (4.23%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (7.98%) Degree
2 11 (5.16%) Master's Degree
3 9 (4.23%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.41%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.51%) WCAG
2 14 (6.57%) Accessibility
3 11 (5.16%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 63 (29.58%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.10%) Docker
3 6 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (15.02%) Terraform
2 30 (14.08%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.23%) Argo
4 7 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.94%) SCOM
6 1 (0.47%) Ansible
6 1 (0.47%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 84 (39.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.82%) SAP
3 5 (2.35%) Oracle
4 4 (1.88%) Black Duck
4 4 (1.88%) Informatica
5 3 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.94%) Databricks
6 2 (0.94%) ESRI
6 2 (0.94%) Google
7 1 (0.47%) BMC
7 1 (0.47%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.47%) Nintex
7 1 (0.47%) Remedy
7 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.47%) Sybase
7 1 (0.47%) VMware