Azure Service Bus Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 190 194
Rank change year-on-year +47 +4 +46
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 10 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.18% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 0.76% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 18
10th Percentile £500 £440 £516
25th Percentile £563 £463 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.22% -12.92% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £675
90th Percentile £639 £546 £705
England median daily rate £513 £556 £590
% change year-on-year -7.87% -5.72% +7.27%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 950 1,322 1,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.09% 23.15% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 892 1,211
10th Percentile £250 £275 £250
25th Percentile £375 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £598 £608 £638
90th Percentile £659 £675 £713
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 59 51
10th Percentile £15.05 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.26 £18.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £46.30 £59.95 £69.38
90th Percentile £72.25 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £32.30
% change year-on-year +15.63% -32.66% +53.81%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Service Bus in the South East

Azure Service Bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Service Bus in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure Service Bus in the South East

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus in the South East over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the South East

Azure Service Bus
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Berkshire +30 9 £600 +14.29% 1
Thames Valley +29 9 £600 +14.29% 6
Hampshire - 2 £638 -
Azure Service Bus
England

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Azure API Management
3 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (40.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 4 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (30.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (30.00%) PaaS
6 3 (30.00%) Serverless
7 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
7 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (20.00%) IaaS
7 2 (20.00%) SaaS
8 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
8 1 (10.00%) GitHub
8 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Logistics Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Procurement Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Procurement Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) ADO
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) OpenID
2 2 (20.00%) SAML
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) API Management
4 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Business Case
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) E-business
5 2 (20.00%) Logistics
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) RBAC
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Value Proposition
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
6 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Snow