Azure Service Bus Contracts

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Service Bus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 399 495
Rank change year-on-year +11 +96 -44
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 205 321 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 1.51% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 246 308
10th Percentile £408 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £518 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +3.52% +13.75%
75th Percentile £650 £640 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £490
% change year-on-year -8.33% +22.45% +8.89%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Service Bus is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,933 21,254 33,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.77% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,370 24,584
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 348 423
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.63
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.18% +25.00% -

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
England +51 189 £550 -8.33% 54
London +79 159 £550 -7.17% 30
Work from Home +38 79 £556 -5.72% 37
UK excluding London +10 28 £550 -8.33% 22
North of England +32 9 £600 - 8
South East +6 9 £450 -25.00% 5
Yorkshire +15 6 £600 - 2
Midlands +23 3 £600 +41.18% 1
North West +17 3 £600 -4.00% 4
West Midlands +13 3 £600 +41.18% 1
South West +12 3 £456 -23.64% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Scotland +39 1 £550 +4.76% 4
East of England +11 1 £550 +69.23%

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (7.32%) CMS
2 4 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.98%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.49%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 204 (99.51%) Azure
2 120 (58.54%) Azure DevOps
3 69 (33.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 60 (29.27%) Serverless
5 53 (25.85%) Azure Monitor
6 51 (24.88%) Azure Functions
7 38 (18.54%) Azure API Management
8 36 (17.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 30 (14.63%) Azure Key Vault
10 29 (14.15%) Entra ID
11 28 (13.66%) Azure AKS
12 27 (13.17%) GitHub
13 26 (12.68%) PaaS
14 21 (10.24%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (8.78%) Azure Storage
16 16 (7.80%) Azure App Service
16 16 (7.80%) Power Platform
17 14 (6.83%) Azure Pipelines
18 13 (6.34%) NuGet
19 12 (5.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.93%) Firewall
2 2 (0.98%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 37 (18.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 29 (14.15%) Redis
4 14 (6.83%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.39%) Big Data
7 8 (3.90%) InterSystems Cache
8 7 (3.41%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.41%) OLTP
9 5 (2.44%) Power BI
10 4 (1.95%) GIS
11 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.49%) Flink
12 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (32.20%) Git
2 11 (5.37%) Postman
3 10 (4.88%) JMeter
4 9 (4.39%) Cypress.io
4 9 (4.39%) Visual Studio Team System
5 8 (3.90%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.95%) JIRA
6 4 (1.95%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.49%) GitLab
9 1 (0.49%) Moq
9 1 (0.49%) MSTest
9 1 (0.49%) NUnit
9 1 (0.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.49%) Serilog
9 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (19.51%) Finance
2 32 (15.61%) Back Office
2 32 (15.61%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.66%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (5.37%) Front Office
6 8 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.90%) Banking
7 5 (2.44%) German Language
7 5 (2.44%) Law
8 4 (1.95%) Local Government
9 2 (0.98%) Electronics
9 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.98%) Marketing
9 2 (0.98%) Retail
9 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 120 (58.54%) Developer
2 56 (27.32%) Senior
3 44 (21.46%) Senior Developer
4 35 (17.07%) Azure Developer
5 30 (14.63%) C# Developer
6 23 (11.22%) .NET Developer
6 23 (11.22%) Backend Developer
7 19 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (9.27%) Senior Backend Developer
8 17 (8.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 17 (8.29%) Software Engineer
9 15 (7.32%) Lead
10 13 (6.34%) Architect
11 11 (5.37%) Azure Architect
11 11 (5.37%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 10 (4.88%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (4.88%) Product Owner
13 9 (4.39%) C# .NET Developer
13 9 (4.39%) Full Stack Developer
13 9 (4.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (58.54%) .NET
2 76 (37.07%) .NET Core
3 55 (26.83%) React
4 39 (19.02%) CSS
4 39 (19.02%) HTML
5 30 (14.63%) ASP.NET
6 27 (13.17%) YAML
7 24 (11.71%) XML
8 21 (10.24%) Kafka
9 19 (9.27%) jQuery
10 18 (8.78%) .NET Framework
11 16 (7.80%) Node.js
11 16 (7.80%) Web Services
12 15 (7.32%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (6.83%) REST
13 14 (6.83%) Swagger
14 12 (5.85%) AngularJS
14 12 (5.85%) ARM Templates
15 11 (5.37%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (5.37%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.10%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.41%) Machine to Machine
4 6 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.95%) Derivative
6 4 (1.95%) Mobile Payment
6 4 (1.95%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.95%) Solar Panel
7 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.46%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.98%) Wiki
9 1 (0.49%) BYOD
9 1 (0.49%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.29%) Linux
2 2 (0.98%) Unix
2 2 (0.98%) Windows
2 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (66.34%) DevOps
2 108 (52.68%) Agile
3 91 (44.39%) API Management
4 74 (36.10%) TDD
5 61 (29.76%) CI/CD
6 45 (21.95%) OO
7 43 (20.98%) Software Engineering
8 41 (20.00%) Scrum
9 40 (19.51%) Clean Code
10 38 (18.54%) OOD
11 36 (17.56%) Test Automation
12 27 (13.17%) Microservices
13 23 (11.22%) Front End Development
14 20 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (9.76%) Full Stack Development
15 19 (9.27%) B2C
16 18 (8.78%) MVC
17 17 (8.29%) Deployment Automation
17 17 (8.29%) Event-Driven
17 17 (8.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 138 (67.32%) C#
2 74 (36.10%) SQL
3 64 (31.22%) Bicep
4 47 (22.93%) JavaScript
5 38 (18.54%) Python
6 37 (18.05%) TypeScript
7 35 (17.07%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.37%) Java
9 8 (3.90%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (6.83%) Degree
2 9 (4.39%) Azure Certification
3 8 (3.90%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.46%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.46%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.32%) WCAG
2 14 (6.83%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.88%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.46%) QA
System Software
1 62 (30.24%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.34%) Docker
3 6 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (15.61%) Terraform
2 22 (10.73%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.39%) Argo
4 7 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.98%) SCOM
6 1 (0.49%) Ansible
6 1 (0.49%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 80 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.44%) SAP
3 4 (1.95%) Black Duck
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle
4 3 (1.46%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.98%) Databricks
5 2 (0.98%) ESRI
5 2 (0.98%) Google
6 1 (0.49%) BMC
6 1 (0.49%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.49%) Informatica
6 1 (0.49%) Nintex
6 1 (0.49%) Remedy
6 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.49%) Sybase
6 1 (0.49%) VMware