Azure Service Bus Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 269 314
Rank change year-on-year +7 +45 +74
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 42 76 166
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.50% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.37% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 47 133
10th Percentile £419 £404 £408
25th Percentile £494 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £590
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.66% +7.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £588
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.26% +2.17%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Service Bus
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Service Bus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Service Bus trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Service Bus.

Azure Service Bus daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure Service Bus daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.38%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.38%) IIS
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (38.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 13 (30.95%) Azure API Management
5 11 (26.19%) Azure Functions
5 11 (26.19%) Azure Logic Apps
5 11 (26.19%) Serverless
6 10 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (23.81%) Entra ID
7 8 (19.05%) Azure Event Grid
7 8 (19.05%) GitHub
8 6 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (11.90%) Azure AKS
9 5 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
11 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (7.14%) Azure Storage
12 2 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (4.76%) PaaS
13 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) Redis
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Selenium
2 4 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) Liquibase
3 2 (4.76%) Postman
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Moq
4 1 (2.38%) NUnit
4 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Advertising
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) Developer
2 8 (19.05%) Architect
2 8 (19.05%) Azure Developer
2 8 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Python Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Python Software Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) .NET Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Integration Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) .NET
2 8 (19.05%) REST
3 6 (14.29%) Kafka
3 6 (14.29%) OAuth
4 5 (11.90%) .NET Framework
4 5 (11.90%) ADO
4 5 (11.90%) NumPy
4 5 (11.90%) OAuth2
4 5 (11.90%) OpenID
4 5 (11.90%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (11.90%) Pandas
5 4 (9.52%) .NET Core
5 4 (9.52%) RESTful
5 4 (9.52%) YAML
6 3 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (7.14%) WCF
6 3 (7.14%) Web Services
7 2 (4.76%) Dapper ORM
7 2 (4.76%) hapi
7 2 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.38%) NHS
2 1 (2.38%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Android
1 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
1 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) DevOps
2 17 (40.48%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
4 11 (26.19%) Event-Driven
5 10 (23.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 10 (23.81%) Test Automation
6 9 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (16.67%) Scrum
7 7 (16.67%) Unit Testing
8 6 (14.29%) API Management
8 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
9 5 (11.90%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (11.90%) Data Science
9 5 (11.90%) Quantitative Finance
10 4 (9.52%) Design Patterns
10 4 (9.52%) Logistics
10 4 (9.52%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) C#
2 13 (30.95%) Python
3 8 (19.05%) SQL
4 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.90%) Java
6 3 (7.14%) Bicep
7 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) MCAD
3 1 (2.38%) MCPD
3 1 (2.38%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) HL7
1 4 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 10 (23.81%) Terraform
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.38%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.38%) Snow