Azure Service Bus Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 235 316
Rank change year-on-year -73 +81 +131
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 65 156 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.96% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 2.37% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 89 104
10th Percentile £362 £425 £418
25th Percentile £420 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £601 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +4.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £719
England median daily rate £513 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,819 6,591 9,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.05% 40.72% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 4,779 6,949
10th Percentile £337 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 47 62
10th Percentile £22.95 £20.30 £16.61
25th Percentile £24.83 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -52.00% +35.54%
75th Percentile £46.00 £39.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £72.68 £60.90 £90.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £32.31
% change year-on-year +9.24% -26.34% +50.28%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Service Bus in London

Azure Service Bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Service Bus in London

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus in London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in London

Azure Service Bus
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Central London -22 7 £656 +2.54% 5
West London - 3 £550 - 5
Azure Service Bus
England

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) IBM Notes
2 1 (1.54%) Mendix
2 1 (1.54%) NServiceBus
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Aladdin
1 3 (4.62%) Fidessa
1 3 (4.62%) thinkFolio
2 2 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 64 (98.46%) Azure
2 27 (41.54%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 22 (33.85%) Serverless
5 18 (27.69%) Azure Functions
6 16 (24.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (23.08%) Entra ID
8 11 (16.92%) Azure API Management
9 10 (15.38%) Azure AKS
9 10 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (13.85%) GitHub
10 9 (13.85%) Power Platform
11 8 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (12.31%) PowerApps
12 7 (10.77%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (10.77%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (10.77%) Power Automate
13 6 (9.23%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (9.23%) Azure Storage
14 4 (6.15%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) DNS
1 6 (9.23%) Network Security
2 1 (1.54%) HTTP
2 1 (1.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (41.54%) SQL Server
2 10 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.23%) Power BI
4 5 (7.69%) Redis
5 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.54%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.54%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) JBehave
2 1 (1.54%) JUnit
General
1 22 (33.85%) Finance
2 21 (32.31%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.23%) Law
5 5 (7.69%) Banking
6 3 (4.62%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Front Office
7 2 (3.08%) Local Government
7 2 (3.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Advertising
8 1 (1.54%) Back Office
8 1 (1.54%) Billing
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 30 (46.15%) Developer
2 13 (20.00%) Senior
3 11 (16.92%) Architect
4 10 (15.38%) .NET Developer
4 10 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Python Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (10.77%) C# Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Software Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Azure Developer
7 6 (9.23%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Azure Architect
9 4 (6.15%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 4 (6.15%) C# Software Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.15%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (52.31%) .NET
2 24 (36.92%) REST
3 22 (33.85%) .NET Core
4 15 (23.08%) .NET Framework
5 12 (18.46%) ASP.NET
5 12 (18.46%) OAuth
6 11 (16.92%) Kafka
6 11 (16.92%) OAuth2
6 11 (16.92%) React
7 10 (15.38%) OpenID
7 10 (15.38%) YAML
8 9 (13.85%) SOAP
9 8 (12.31%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (12.31%) NumPy
9 8 (12.31%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (12.31%) Pandas
10 7 (10.77%) RESTful
11 6 (9.23%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (9.23%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (9.23%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (7.69%) N-Tier
3 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.62%) Derivative
4 3 (4.62%) Fixed Income
4 3 (4.62%) Legacy Code
5 2 (3.08%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.08%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.08%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.54%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) IoT
6 1 (1.54%) IVR
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Android
1 4 (6.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.85%) DevOps
2 34 (52.31%) Agile
3 26 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 23 (35.38%) Scrum
5 21 (32.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (27.69%) Event-Driven
7 17 (26.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 17 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (21.54%) API Management
9 13 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 13 (20.00%) TDD
9 13 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 12 (18.46%) Microservices
11 11 (16.92%) Software Engineering
12 10 (15.38%) Quantitative Finance
13 9 (13.85%) Design Patterns
14 8 (12.31%) Analytics
15 7 (10.77%) OO
15 7 (10.77%) SOLID
15 7 (10.77%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (69.23%) C#
2 26 (40.00%) Python
3 25 (38.46%) SQL
4 19 (29.23%) JavaScript
5 12 (18.46%) Bicep
5 12 (18.46%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.23%) Bash
6 6 (9.23%) Java
6 6 (9.23%) T-SQL
6 6 (9.23%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.54%) Formula Language
7 1 (1.54%) LotusScript
7 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.31%) Degree
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.69%) MCPD
4 5 (7.69%) MCSD
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.62%) MiFID
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
1 6 (9.23%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (29.23%) Terraform
2 10 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
3 3 (4.62%) Portware
4 2 (3.08%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) IBM
5 1 (1.54%) Kofax
5 1 (1.54%) Lotus
5 1 (1.54%) Northgate