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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 348 417
Rank change year-on-year -56 +69 +77
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 78 193 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.53% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 1.65% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 114 183
10th Percentile £457 £411 £413
25th Percentile £500 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £655 £650 £650
90th Percentile £708 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £560 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +1.82% -6.78% +4.89%

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 9,097 11,687 17,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.16% 32.07% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,303 8,435 12,866
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £670
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 325 292
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.85 £18.44
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -38.24% +58.14%
75th Percentile £36.75 £35.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £72.75 £65.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.30 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.75% -38.94% +57.73%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -61 52 £575 +4.55% 105
South East +44 12 £625 +38.89% 46
Midlands +19 5 £513 -14.58% 16
West Midlands +6 4 £504 -16.04% 9
East of England +27 3 £675 +22.73% 4
South West +38 2 £375 -17.81% 8
North of England +14 1 £450 -25.00% 46
North West +10 1 £450 -25.00% 37
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 5
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 3 (3.85%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.28%) CMS
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) IIS
3 1 (1.28%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (37.18%) Azure DevOps
2 29 (37.18%) Azure Logic Apps
2 29 (37.18%) Serverless
3 27 (34.62%) Azure Functions
4 23 (29.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 23 (29.49%) Entra ID
5 22 (28.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (26.92%) Azure API Management
7 15 (19.23%) Azure AKS
7 15 (19.23%) GitHub
8 13 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (15.38%) Azure Event Grid
10 9 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (10.26%) Power Platform
12 7 (8.97%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (6.41%) PaaS
14 4 (5.13%) Power Automate
15 3 (3.85%) Azure Storage
15 3 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.82%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (43.59%) SQL Server
2 13 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 10 (12.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (6.41%) Redis
5 4 (5.13%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.85%) Power BI
7 1 (1.28%) Big Data
7 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Selenium
2 3 (3.85%) Git
2 3 (3.85%) Postman
3 2 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.28%) JBehave
4 1 (1.28%) JUnit
4 1 (1.28%) NUnit
4 1 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (25.64%) Finance
2 19 (24.36%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Banking
4 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.56%) Retail
5 1 (1.28%) Advertising
5 1 (1.28%) Back Office
5 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Front Office
5 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (44.87%) Developer
2 15 (19.23%) Azure Developer
3 11 (14.10%) Architect
3 11 (14.10%) Software Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) .NET Developer
4 10 (12.82%) Python Engineer
5 9 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Senior
6 8 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Azure Architect
7 6 (7.69%) C# Developer
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.41%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Data Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Lead
8 5 (6.41%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Backend Developer
9 4 (5.13%) C# Software Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (48.72%) .NET
2 19 (24.36%) REST
3 17 (21.79%) OAuth
4 15 (19.23%) OpenID
4 15 (19.23%) RESTful
5 14 (17.95%) .NET Core
5 14 (17.95%) .NET Framework
5 14 (17.95%) Kafka
6 13 (16.67%) OAuth2
7 12 (15.38%) Web Services
8 11 (14.10%) ASP.NET
9 9 (11.54%) NumPy
9 9 (11.54%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (11.54%) Pandas
10 8 (10.26%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (10.26%) WCF
11 7 (8.97%) Entity Framework
11 7 (8.97%) React
12 6 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (7.69%) Dapper ORM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (6.41%) N-Tier
3 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Derivative
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.28%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.28%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.13%) Android
1 4 (5.13%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.28%) Windows
2 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (48.72%) Agile
2 37 (47.44%) DevOps
3 26 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 19 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (24.36%) Test Automation
5 17 (21.79%) API Management
5 17 (21.79%) Event-Driven
6 16 (20.51%) Scrum
7 15 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 14 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (17.95%) Unit Testing
9 13 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (14.10%) Data Integration
10 11 (14.10%) Quantitative Finance
11 10 (12.82%) CRM
11 10 (12.82%) Design Patterns
12 9 (11.54%) End-to-End Testing
12 9 (11.54%) Microservices
12 9 (11.54%) Performance Testing
12 9 (11.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (61.54%) C#
2 29 (37.18%) Python
3 20 (25.64%) SQL
4 13 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.26%) Bicep
5 8 (10.26%) Java
6 7 (8.97%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 5 (6.41%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (11.54%) Degree
2 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (6.41%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.41%) MCPD
3 5 (6.41%) MCSD
3 5 (6.41%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (5.13%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.69%) Docker
2 6 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (24.36%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.51%) Terraform
3 1 (1.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.13%) Databricks
2 4 (5.13%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (1.28%) IBM
4 1 (1.28%) SAP
4 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.28%) Snow