Azure Service Bus Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 378 388
Rank change year-on-year +55 +10 +28
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 34 27 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 0.49% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 47
10th Percentile £305 £450 £404
25th Percentile £363 £513 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £625
90th Percentile £638 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £556 £586
% change year-on-year -10.11% -5.08% +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.25 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,345 5,474 7,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.06% 25.78% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,977 3,782 5,433
10th Percentile £250 £225 £250
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £601
90th Percentile £650 £669 £694
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 276 225
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.50 £16.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.77 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% -21.56% +39.37%
75th Percentile £34.02 £43.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £59.38 £70.00 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Service Bus in the UK excluding London

Azure Service Bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Service Bus in the UK excluding London

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK excluding London

Azure Service Bus
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
South East +47 10 £613 +17.22% 58
Midlands +14 8 £504 -16.04% 29
South West +41 6 £375 -33.33% 24
West Midlands +7 5 £495 -17.50% 18
North of England +22 3 £450 -25.00% 64
North West +8 3 £450 -25.00% 48
Scotland +4 3 - - 25
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 11
Wales - 3 £235 - 12
East of England - 2 £675 - 24
Azure Service Bus
UK

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.88%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (61.76%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (47.06%) Azure Logic Apps
3 16 (47.06%) Serverless
4 12 (35.29%) Azure API Management
5 11 (32.35%) Azure Functions
6 8 (23.53%) Azure Event Grid
6 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
6 8 (23.53%) PowerApps
7 7 (20.59%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (17.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (17.65%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (11.76%) GitHub
10 3 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (8.82%) PaaS
11 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
11 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
11 2 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
1 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (8.82%) DB2
2 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) GitLab
1 3 (8.82%) JUnit
1 3 (8.82%) Mockito
1 3 (8.82%) Selenium
2 2 (5.88%) Postman
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Banking
3 3 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Azure Developer
3 7 (20.59%) Integration Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Power Apps Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Applications Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Digital Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Lead
8 1 (2.94%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Functional Consultant
8 1 (2.94%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Procurement Consultant
8 1 (2.94%) Procurement Specialist
8 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (47.06%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET Web API
2 6 (17.65%) HTML5 Canvas
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (14.71%) RESTful
3 5 (14.71%) Web Services
4 3 (8.82%) ADO
4 3 (8.82%) ARM Templates
4 3 (8.82%) Hibernate
4 3 (8.82%) JSON
4 3 (8.82%) OAuth
4 3 (8.82%) Spring
4 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.82%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (8.82%) XML
5 2 (5.88%) OpenID
5 2 (5.88%) SAML
5 2 (5.88%) SOAP
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (8.82%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) NHS
4 1 (2.94%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.94%) FMCG
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) DevOps
2 14 (41.18%) Agile
2 14 (41.18%) API Management
3 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.59%) Analytics
5 7 (20.59%) API Design
5 7 (20.59%) Scrum
6 6 (17.65%) Data Security
6 6 (17.65%) Log Analytics
6 6 (17.65%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.76%) API Development
7 4 (11.76%) CRM
7 4 (11.76%) Data Integration
7 4 (11.76%) ETL
7 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 4 (11.76%) Microservices
7 4 (11.76%) Migration
8 3 (8.82%) API Integration
8 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) C#
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 8 (23.53%) Java
3 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 7 (20.59%) Python
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.88%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.88%) X++
6 1 (2.94%) Bicep
6 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.94%) Snow
3 1 (2.94%) webMethods