Azure Service Bus Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 138 132
Rank change year-on-year +47 -6 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 11 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 0.26% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.15% 0.93% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 19
10th Percentile £500 £395 £563
25th Percentile £563 £425 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -19.23% +38.30%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £675
90th Percentile - £625 £695
South East median daily rate £625 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +38.89% -25.00% +26.98%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Service Bus in the Thames Valley

Azure Service Bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Service Bus in the Thames Valley

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the Thames Valley

Azure Service Bus
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +38 11 £625 +28.21% 1
Azure Service Bus
South East

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (90.91%) Azure API Management
3 9 (81.82%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (72.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (54.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (36.36%) Azure Event Grid
6 4 (36.36%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (27.27%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (27.27%) PaaS
7 3 (27.27%) Serverless
8 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
8 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
8 2 (18.18%) IaaS
8 2 (18.18%) SaaS
9 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
9 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Azure Developer
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Logistics Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Procurement Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) ADO
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth
2 2 (18.18%) OpenID
2 2 (18.18%) SAML
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) API Management
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Business Case
4 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (18.18%) RBAC
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Value Proposition
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) E-business
5 1 (9.09%) Log Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Logistics
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
5 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Snow