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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 413 496
Rank change year-on-year +15 +83 -47
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 195 326 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 1.50% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 249 317
10th Percentile £407 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £515 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £640 £650
90th Percentile £703 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%

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 13,935 21,778 34,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.82% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,726 24,913
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 £630 £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 343 351 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.42
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Service Bus in the UK

Azure Service Bus
Top 13 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 4 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 +41 180 £550 -8.33% 66
London +68 149 £550 -6.78% 40
Work from Home +44 76 £550 -6.78% 47
UK excluding London +22 28 £550 -8.33% 24
North of England +23 9 £600 - 9
South East +9 9 £450 -25.00% 6
Yorkshire +18 6 £600 - 2
Midlands +24 3 £600 +41.18% 1
South West +23 3 £456 -23.64% 3
West Midlands +22 3 £600 +41.18% 1
North West +19 3 £600 -4.00% 6
East of England +9 2 £550 +69.23% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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 (7.69%) CMS
2 4 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.03%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (3.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 194 (99.49%) Azure
2 117 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 70 (35.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 57 (29.23%) Serverless
5 51 (26.15%) Azure Monitor
6 49 (25.13%) Azure Functions
7 39 (20.00%) Azure API Management
8 37 (18.97%) Azure Logic Apps
9 29 (14.87%) Azure Key Vault
10 27 (13.85%) GitHub
10 27 (13.85%) PaaS
11 26 (13.33%) Azure AKS
11 26 (13.33%) Entra ID
12 21 (10.77%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (9.23%) Azure Storage
14 15 (7.69%) Power Platform
15 14 (7.18%) Azure Pipelines
15 14 (7.18%) NuGet
16 13 (6.67%) Azure App Service
17 10 (5.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.08%) Firewall
2 2 (1.03%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (38.97%) SQL Server
2 36 (18.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (12.82%) Redis
4 12 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.62%) Big Data
7 8 (4.10%) InterSystems Cache
8 7 (3.59%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.59%) OLTP
9 4 (2.05%) GIS
9 4 (2.05%) Power BI
10 3 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.51%) Flink
Development Applications
1 64 (32.82%) Git
2 11 (5.64%) Postman
3 10 (5.13%) JMeter
4 9 (4.62%) Cypress.io
4 9 (4.62%) Visual Studio Team System
5 7 (3.59%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.05%) JIRA
7 3 (1.54%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.54%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.51%) GitLab
9 1 (0.51%) Maven
9 1 (0.51%) MSTest
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
9 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (18.97%) Finance
2 29 (14.87%) Social Skills
3 28 (14.36%) Back Office
4 27 (13.85%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.10%) Banking
7 7 (3.59%) Front Office
8 5 (2.56%) German Language
8 5 (2.56%) Law
9 4 (2.05%) Local Government
10 2 (1.03%) Electronics
10 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.03%) Marketing
10 2 (1.03%) Retail
10 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (57.95%) Developer
2 51 (26.15%) Senior
3 42 (21.54%) Senior Developer
4 35 (17.95%) Azure Developer
5 30 (15.38%) C# Developer
6 22 (11.28%) Backend Developer
7 21 (10.77%) .NET Developer
8 19 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (9.23%) Senior Backend Developer
10 17 (8.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 16 (8.21%) Software Engineer
12 14 (7.18%) Architect
12 14 (7.18%) Lead
13 13 (6.67%) Azure Architect
14 11 (5.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 9 (4.62%) C# .NET Developer
15 9 (4.62%) C# Software Engineer
15 9 (4.62%) Python Developer
15 9 (4.62%) Software Developer
16 8 (4.10%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (57.95%) .NET
2 74 (37.95%) .NET Core
3 52 (26.67%) React
4 37 (18.97%) CSS
5 36 (18.46%) HTML
6 29 (14.87%) ASP.NET
7 27 (13.85%) YAML
8 22 (11.28%) XML
9 19 (9.74%) jQuery
9 19 (9.74%) Kafka
10 16 (8.21%) Node.js
10 16 (8.21%) Web Services
11 15 (7.69%) .NET Framework
11 15 (7.69%) REST
12 14 (7.18%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (7.18%) Swagger
13 12 (6.15%) ARM Templates
14 11 (5.64%) ASP.NET MVC
14 11 (5.64%) SignalR
15 10 (5.13%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.87%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.59%) Machine to Machine
4 5 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.05%) Mobile Payment
6 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.54%) Derivative
6 3 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.54%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.54%) Solar Panel
6 3 (1.54%) Wiki
7 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.51%) BYOD
8 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.72%) Linux
2 2 (1.03%) Windows
2 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (67.18%) DevOps
2 102 (52.31%) Agile
3 93 (47.69%) API Management
4 70 (35.90%) TDD
5 59 (30.26%) CI/CD
6 45 (23.08%) OO
7 42 (21.54%) Software Engineering
8 41 (21.03%) Scrum
9 38 (19.49%) Clean Code
10 37 (18.97%) OOD
11 34 (17.44%) Test Automation
12 26 (13.33%) Microservices
13 23 (11.79%) Front End Development
14 20 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
15 18 (9.23%) MVC
16 17 (8.72%) Deployment Automation
16 17 (8.72%) Migration
17 16 (8.21%) B2C
18 15 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 134 (68.72%) C#
2 73 (37.44%) SQL
3 62 (31.79%) Bicep
4 43 (22.05%) JavaScript
5 39 (20.00%) Python
6 34 (17.44%) PowerShell
6 34 (17.44%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.64%) Java
8 8 (4.10%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (7.69%) Degree
2 9 (4.62%) Azure Certification
3 7 (3.59%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.18%) Accessibility
1 14 (7.18%) WCAG
2 7 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.08%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 59 (30.26%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.67%) Docker
3 7 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (16.92%) Terraform
2 20 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.62%) Argo
4 7 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.03%) SCOM
6 1 (0.51%) Ansible
6 1 (0.51%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 77 (39.49%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.56%) SAP
3 4 (2.05%) Black Duck
3 4 (2.05%) Oracle
4 3 (1.54%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.03%) Databricks
5 2 (1.03%) ESRI
5 2 (1.03%) Google
5 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.51%) BMC
6 1 (0.51%) Nintex
6 1 (0.51%) Remedy
6 1 (0.51%) Sybase
6 1 (0.51%) VMware