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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 389 408
Rank change year-on-year -40 +19 +87
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 88 204 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.47% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 1.47% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 121 246
10th Percentile £443 £408 £413
25th Percentile £494 £463 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £550 £589
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -6.58% +4.90%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £679 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +20.00%
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 10,948 13,924 21,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.52% 32.34% 36.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,571 9,902 15,444
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 342 346
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.92 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.19 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.45% -39.47% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.20 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.45 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £17.69 £24.62
% change year-on-year +20.92% -28.15% +29.58%

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 9 May 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 9 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
England -46 72 £575 +4.55% 135
London -43 47 £568 +3.18% 65
Work from Home +3 41 £575 +3.37% 109
UK excluding London +55 26 £575 +4.55% 95
South East +43 12 £625 +38.89% 33
Midlands +12 5 £513 -14.58% 13
West Midlands +16 4 £504 -16.04% 8
East of England +36 3 £675 +22.73% 4
Scotland +18 3 - - 2
Wales - 2 £160 - 13
South West +35 1 £375 -17.81% 6
North West +11 1 £450 -25.00% 24
North of England +9 1 £450 -25.00% 33
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 3

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 3 (3.41%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.14%) CMS
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) IIS
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (39.77%) Serverless
3 32 (36.36%) Azure Logic Apps
4 31 (35.23%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (34.09%) Azure Functions
6 27 (30.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 25 (28.41%) Azure API Management
8 23 (26.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (23.86%) Entra ID
10 18 (20.45%) GitHub
11 17 (19.32%) Azure Event Grid
12 16 (18.18%) Azure AKS
13 13 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (12.50%) Power Platform
15 9 (10.23%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (7.95%) PaaS
17 6 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
18 5 (5.68%) PowerApps
19 4 (4.55%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (34.09%) SQL Server
2 12 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 10 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.41%) DB2
6 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.41%) Power BI
7 2 (2.27%) Redis
8 1 (1.14%) Big Data
8 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Selenium
2 4 (4.55%) Git
2 4 (4.55%) JUnit
3 3 (3.41%) GitLab
3 3 (3.41%) Mockito
3 3 (3.41%) Postman
4 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.27%) JIRA
4 2 (2.27%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.14%) JBehave
5 1 (1.14%) Moq
5 1 (1.14%) NUnit
5 1 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.14%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (22.73%) Finance
1 20 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Banking
4 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Retail
5 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.14%) Advertising
6 1 (1.14%) Back Office
6 1 (1.14%) Front Office
6 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (42.05%) Developer
2 16 (18.18%) Architect
3 13 (14.77%) Azure Developer
4 11 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 10 (11.36%) Azure Architect
5 10 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (11.36%) Python Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Senior
7 6 (6.82%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.55%) C# Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Integration Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (43.18%) .NET
2 19 (21.59%) REST
3 18 (20.45%) OAuth
4 16 (18.18%) OpenID
5 15 (17.05%) RESTful
6 14 (15.91%) Kafka
7 13 (14.77%) .NET Framework
7 13 (14.77%) OAuth2
8 12 (13.64%) .NET Core
8 12 (13.64%) Web Services
9 10 (11.36%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (10.23%) NumPy
10 9 (10.23%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (10.23%) Pandas
11 8 (9.09%) WCF
12 7 (7.95%) ASP.NET
12 7 (7.95%) Entity Framework
13 6 (6.82%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (6.82%) Dapper ORM
14 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.82%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (5.68%) N-Tier
4 3 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.27%) NHS
6 1 (1.14%) Derivative
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Android
1 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.14%) Windows
1 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.73%) Agile
1 42 (47.73%) DevOps
2 24 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 22 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 19 (21.59%) Event-Driven
5 18 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (19.32%) API Management
7 15 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (17.05%) Scrum
7 15 (17.05%) Software Engineering
8 14 (15.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 14 (15.91%) Microservices
8 14 (15.91%) Unit Testing
9 12 (13.64%) CRM
10 11 (12.50%) Quantitative Finance
11 10 (11.36%) Data Integration
11 10 (11.36%) Design Patterns
11 10 (11.36%) MVC
12 9 (10.23%) Performance Testing
12 9 (10.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 45 (51.14%) C#
2 29 (32.95%) Python
3 25 (28.41%) SQL
4 13 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.64%) Java
6 6 (6.82%) Bicep
7 5 (5.68%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.41%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.27%) Bash
11 1 (1.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Degree
2 10 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (7.95%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.68%) MCPD
4 5 (5.68%) MCSD
4 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (4.55%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Docker
2 7 (7.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.45%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Foglight
3 1 (1.14%) Grafana
3 1 (1.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.95%) Oracle
3 6 (6.82%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.55%) Databricks
5 2 (2.27%) SAP
5 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.14%) IBM
6 1 (1.14%) Snow