Hybrid/Remote Azure Service Bus Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Service Bus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 258 288
Rank change year-on-year -9 +30 +88
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 53 62 89
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.53% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.36% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 60
10th Percentile £364 £513 £423
25th Percentile £413 £525 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £623 £650 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £48.00 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile £67.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.00 - -

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 4,386 4,570 6,494
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.84% 38.89% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 3,073 4,706
10th Percentile £325 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 80
10th Percentile £17.80 £20.86 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - -24.10% +39.29%
75th Percentile £66.07 £64.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £78.67 £81.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £28.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.17% +15.00% +11.11%

Azure Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Service Bus and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Azure Service Bus job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Service Bus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Azure Service Bus daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure Service Bus
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Service Bus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Azure Service Bus hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Azure Service Bus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.89%) HCL Notes
3 1 (1.89%) Mendix
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Aladdin
1 4 (7.55%) Fidessa
1 4 (7.55%) thinkFolio
2 3 (5.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.89%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (45.28%) Azure Logic Apps
3 19 (35.85%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (35.85%) Serverless
4 15 (28.30%) GitHub
5 13 (24.53%) Azure Functions
6 12 (22.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 12 (22.64%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (20.75%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (18.87%) Power Platform
9 9 (16.98%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (16.98%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (16.98%) PaaS
10 8 (15.09%) Power Automate
10 8 (15.09%) PowerApps
11 6 (11.32%) Azure Event Grid
12 5 (9.43%) Azure API Management
12 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
13 4 (7.55%) SaaS
14 3 (5.66%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) HTTP
2 2 (3.77%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (32.08%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.43%) Power BI
4 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.77%) Metadata
6 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.89%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.89%) Redis
6 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Postman
2 4 (7.55%) Git
3 3 (5.66%) JIRA
4 2 (3.77%) git-flow
4 2 (3.77%) Selenium
5 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.89%) JMeter
5 1 (1.89%) Locust
5 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.89%) TestRail
5 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 7 (13.21%) Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Front Office
6 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Advertising
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.89%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (50.94%) Developer
2 11 (20.75%) Architect
2 11 (20.75%) Senior
3 8 (15.09%) .NET Developer
3 8 (15.09%) Senior Developer
4 6 (11.32%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (11.32%) C# Developer
4 6 (11.32%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Lead
5 5 (9.43%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (7.55%) .NET Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Integration Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Tester
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (52.83%) .NET
2 17 (32.08%) REST
3 15 (28.30%) .NET Core
4 9 (16.98%) SOAP
5 8 (15.09%) AngularJS
5 8 (15.09%) Node.js
6 7 (13.21%) .NET Framework
6 7 (13.21%) JSON
7 6 (11.32%) OAuth
8 5 (9.43%) Express.js
8 5 (9.43%) HTML5 Canvas
8 5 (9.43%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (9.43%) RESTful
8 5 (9.43%) SignalR
8 5 (9.43%) WebSockets
9 4 (7.55%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (7.55%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (7.55%) Kafka
9 4 (7.55%) React
10 3 (5.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Cloud Native
2 10 (18.87%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
4 4 (7.55%) Derivative
4 4 (7.55%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.66%) Hedge funds
5 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.77%) Data Fabric
6 2 (3.77%) IVR
6 2 (3.77%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) IoT
7 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) CI/CD
2 31 (58.49%) DevOps
3 21 (39.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (39.62%) Microservices
4 20 (37.74%) Agile
5 17 (32.08%) Event-Driven
6 16 (30.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 13 (24.53%) API Management
8 10 (18.87%) Analytics
8 10 (18.87%) Observability
9 8 (15.09%) Containerisation
9 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
9 8 (15.09%) RBAC
9 8 (15.09%) Scrum
10 7 (13.21%) Log Analytics
11 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (11.32%) Data Governance
11 6 (11.32%) Migration
11 6 (11.32%) Test Automation
11 6 (11.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) C#
2 28 (52.83%) SQL
3 14 (26.42%) JavaScript
4 12 (22.64%) Bicep
5 10 (18.87%) TypeScript
6 7 (13.21%) Python
7 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.66%) Java
9 2 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.89%) Bash
10 1 (1.89%) Formula Language
10 1 (1.89%) LotusScript
10 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.89%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.66%) CTC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) GDPR
2 4 (7.55%) MiFID
3 3 (5.66%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (26.42%) Terraform
2 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.66%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Portware
2 4 (7.55%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.77%) Databricks
4 1 (1.89%) Ariba
4 1 (1.89%) Informatica
4 1 (1.89%) Kofax
4 1 (1.89%) Lotus
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) Solace
4 1 (1.89%) Talend