Azure Service Bus Contracts

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 378 435
Rank change year-on-year -47 +57 +85
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 105 214 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 1.50% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 130 198
10th Percentile £346 £430 £400
25th Percentile £410 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £569 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% -1.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £640
90th Percentile £654 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,683 14,254 20,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.66% 32.84% 36.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,825 10,021 14,673
10th Percentile £313 £303 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 356 334
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.06 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.36 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.97 £25.73
% change year-on-year -10.01% -18.48% +33.64%

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 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 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
England -48 88 £506 -10.00% 315
London -71 55 £500 -13.04% 129
Work from Home +10 52 £500 -9.09% 202
UK excluding London +55 35 £500 -9.09% 230
South East +52 9 £600 +14.83% 61
Midlands +11 8 £504 -16.04% 26
South West +41 6 £375 -33.33% 18
West Midlands +12 5 £495 -17.50% 16
East of England - 4 £675 - 30
North West +10 3 £450 -25.00% 43
Scotland +6 3 - - 27
North of England +4 3 £450 -25.00% 55
Wales - 3 £235 - 13
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 10

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 2 (1.90%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.81%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.90%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (97.14%) Azure
2 47 (44.76%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (40.95%) Azure Logic Apps
4 39 (37.14%) Serverless
5 34 (32.38%) Azure Functions
6 25 (23.81%) Azure API Management
7 18 (17.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 18 (17.14%) Entra ID
8 17 (16.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
10 14 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (13.33%) Power Platform
11 13 (12.38%) Azure AKS
11 13 (12.38%) GitHub
11 13 (12.38%) PowerApps
12 11 (10.48%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (10.48%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (9.52%) Azure Storage
14 8 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) DNS
2 6 (5.71%) Network Security
3 2 (1.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.52%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (12.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.76%) Redis
4 3 (2.86%) DB2
4 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.90%) Power BI
6 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Git
1 4 (3.81%) JUnit
2 3 (2.86%) GitLab
2 3 (2.86%) JIRA
2 3 (2.86%) Mockito
3 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.90%) Liquibase
3 2 (1.90%) Postman
3 2 (1.90%) Selenium
3 2 (1.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.95%) JBehave
4 1 (0.95%) Moq
4 1 (0.95%) NUnit
4 1 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 29 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.24%) Finance
3 11 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.71%) Law
5 5 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.81%) Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Retail
8 2 (1.90%) Local Government
9 1 (0.95%) Advertising
9 1 (0.95%) Back Office
9 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.95%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 52 (49.52%) Developer
2 18 (17.14%) Architect
3 14 (13.33%) Azure Developer
3 14 (13.33%) Senior
4 11 (10.48%) Senior Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Azure Architect
6 9 (8.57%) .NET Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Power Apps Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Python Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Integration Developer
8 7 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Applications Developer
9 6 (5.71%) C# Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Python Software Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.76%) ASP.NET Developer
10 5 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (44.76%) .NET
2 22 (20.95%) REST
3 18 (17.14%) .NET Core
4 16 (15.24%) OAuth
5 15 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 15 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
6 13 (12.38%) OpenID
7 12 (11.43%) ASP.NET
7 12 (11.43%) OAuth2
7 12 (11.43%) RESTful
7 12 (11.43%) Web Services
8 11 (10.48%) Kafka
8 11 (10.48%) YAML
9 10 (9.52%) React
9 10 (9.52%) SOAP
10 9 (8.57%) ARM Templates
11 8 (7.62%) ADO
11 8 (7.62%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (7.62%) Pandas
11 8 (7.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (5.71%) N-Tier
3 5 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.86%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.90%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.90%) NHS
5 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.95%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.95%) FMCG
6 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.81%) Android
1 4 (3.81%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.95%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (56.19%) DevOps
2 44 (41.90%) Agile
3 32 (30.48%) API Management
4 30 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 28 (26.67%) Scrum
6 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (20.00%) Event-Driven
8 19 (18.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 18 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
10 14 (13.33%) Analytics
10 14 (13.33%) Microservices
11 13 (12.38%) TDD
12 12 (11.43%) DevSecOps
12 12 (11.43%) Log Analytics
13 11 (10.48%) CRM
14 10 (9.52%) Data Integration
14 10 (9.52%) MVC
14 10 (9.52%) Quantitative Finance
14 10 (9.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (56.19%) C#
2 33 (31.43%) Python
2 33 (31.43%) SQL
3 26 (24.76%) JavaScript
4 14 (13.33%) Java
5 13 (12.38%) Bicep
5 13 (12.38%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.62%) Bash
6 8 (7.62%) T-SQL
7 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.90%) X++
9 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.95%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (10.48%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (10.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.52%) Degree
3 9 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.76%) MCPD
5 5 (4.76%) MCSD
6 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.95%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (3.81%) HL7
3 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (10.48%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (19.05%) Terraform
2 16 (15.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.95%) Foglight
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) Oracle
3 6 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.86%) Databricks
5 2 (1.90%) SAP
5 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.95%) IBM
6 1 (0.95%) Northgate
6 1 (0.95%) Snow
6 1 (0.95%) webMethods