Azure Service Bus Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 358 432
Rank change year-on-year -52 +74 +66
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 88 202 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 1.66% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 121 161
10th Percentile £352 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -4.26% +6.82%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £661 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,828 12,164 17,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 32.54% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,627 8,683 12,603
10th Percentile £311 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 330 288
10th Percentile £15.01 £14.11 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.68 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%
75th Percentile £39.06 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Service Bus in England

Azure Service Bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Service Bus in England

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in England

Azure Service Bus
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
London -65 56 £500 -13.04% 121
South East +39 8 £588 +12.44% 69
Midlands +19 8 £504 -16.04% 25
South West +35 6 £375 -33.33% 22
West Midlands +10 5 £495 -17.50% 15
East of England - 4 £675 - 32
North West +7 3 £450 -25.00% 43
North of England +2 3 £450 -25.00% 55
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 10
Azure Service Bus
UK

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.27%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.27%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) IIS
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.27%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.14%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.14%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 85 (96.59%) Azure
2 39 (44.32%) Azure Logic Apps
3 37 (42.05%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (36.36%) Serverless
5 29 (32.95%) Azure Functions
6 20 (22.73%) Azure API Management
7 17 (19.32%) Entra ID
8 15 (17.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 14 (15.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (14.77%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (13.64%) Azure AKS
12 11 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
13 10 (11.36%) GitHub
13 10 (11.36%) Power Platform
13 10 (11.36%) PowerApps
14 9 (10.23%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (10.23%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (9.09%) Azure Storage
15 8 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (6.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) DNS
2 6 (6.82%) Network Security
3 2 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (35.23%) SQL Server
2 13 (14.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (14.77%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.68%) Redis
4 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.27%) Power BI
6 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Git
2 2 (2.27%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Postman
2 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.14%) JBehave
3 1 (1.14%) JUnit
3 1 (1.14%) NUnit
3 1 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.14%) Selenium
General
1 26 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Finance
3 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.82%) Law
5 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.41%) Banking
6 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Local Government
7 2 (2.27%) Retail
8 1 (1.14%) Advertising
8 1 (1.14%) Back Office
8 1 (1.14%) Front Office
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.14%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 43 (48.86%) Developer
2 15 (17.05%) Architect
3 12 (13.64%) Azure Developer
3 12 (13.64%) Senior
4 9 (10.23%) .NET Developer
4 9 (10.23%) Senior Developer
5 8 (9.09%) Python Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Integration Developer
6 7 (7.95%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Azure Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Power Apps Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (5.68%) C# Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Lead
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (48.86%) .NET
2 22 (25.00%) REST
3 18 (20.45%) .NET Core
4 16 (18.18%) .NET Framework
5 15 (17.05%) OAuth
6 12 (13.64%) ASP.NET
6 12 (13.64%) ASP.NET Web API
6 12 (13.64%) OAuth2
6 12 (13.64%) OpenID
6 12 (13.64%) Web Services
7 11 (12.50%) Kafka
7 11 (12.50%) RESTful
7 11 (12.50%) YAML
8 10 (11.36%) React
8 10 (11.36%) SOAP
9 9 (10.23%) ARM Templates
10 8 (9.09%) NumPy
10 8 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (9.09%) Pandas
11 7 (7.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.68%) N-Tier
3 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.41%) Legacy Code
3 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.14%) Derivative
5 1 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.14%) FMCG
5 1 (1.14%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.14%) NHS
5 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Android
1 4 (4.55%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
2 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (54.55%) DevOps
2 37 (42.05%) Agile
3 30 (34.09%) API Management
4 29 (32.95%) CI/CD
5 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (28.41%) Scrum
7 18 (20.45%) Event-Driven
7 18 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (19.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 14 (15.91%) Analytics
9 14 (15.91%) Test Automation
10 13 (14.77%) TDD
11 12 (13.64%) Log Analytics
12 11 (12.50%) DevSecOps
13 10 (11.36%) Data Integration
13 10 (11.36%) Quantitative Finance
13 10 (11.36%) Software Engineering
13 10 (11.36%) Unit Testing
14 9 (10.23%) API Development
14 9 (10.23%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 55 (62.50%) C#
2 31 (35.23%) Python
3 27 (30.68%) SQL
4 21 (23.86%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.77%) PowerShell
6 12 (13.64%) Bicep
7 9 (10.23%) Java
8 8 (9.09%) Bash
8 8 (9.09%) T-SQL
9 6 (6.82%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.27%) X++
11 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) Degree
4 5 (5.68%) MCPD
4 5 (5.68%) MCSD
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (4.55%) HL7
3 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (20.45%) Terraform
2 12 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.82%) Oracle
3 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.27%) Databricks
5 1 (1.14%) IBM
5 1 (1.14%) Northgate
5 1 (1.14%) Portware
5 1 (1.14%) SAP
5 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.14%) Snow
5 1 (1.14%) webMethods