Azure Service Bus Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Service Bus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Service Bus over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 102 151
Rank change year-on-year -8 +49 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 10 22 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 1.01% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 2.58% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 11
10th Percentile £563 - £518
25th Percentile £619 £363 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £901 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +89.68% -17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile - £502 £613
90th Percentile - £558 £615
Central London median daily rate £901 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +89.68% -17.39% -11.54%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 759 854 1,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.42% 39.30% 37.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 606 921
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £669 £674 £713
90th Percentile £750 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £533 £575
% change year-on-year +3.29% -7.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +308.72%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Azure Service Bus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Service Bus in the City of London

Azure Service Bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Service Bus in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Service Bus in the City of London

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the City of London

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (40.00%) Serverless
4 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) JBehave
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) OAuth
3 3 (30.00%) NumPy
3 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (30.00%) OpenID
3 3 (30.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (30.00%) Pandas
3 3 (30.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) EDI
4 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) WCF
4 1 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) CRM
2 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Quantitative Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) API Design
4 1 (10.00%) API Development
4 1 (10.00%) API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) SAP