Azure Service Bus Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Service Bus
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 316 392
Rank change year-on-year +49 +76 -72
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 80 153 241
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.62% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.57% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 124 189
10th Percentile £363 £413 £409
25th Percentile £452 £520 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% +7.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £734 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £560
% change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% +12.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,743 18,197
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,220 13,607
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure Service Bus
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Service Bus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Service Bus trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Azure Service Bus over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

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 9 (11.25%) CMS
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 79 (98.75%) Azure
2 56 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (28.75%) Azure Logic Apps
3 23 (28.75%) Serverless
4 22 (27.50%) Azure Functions
5 20 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 19 (23.75%) Azure API Management
6 19 (23.75%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (13.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (11.25%) GitHub
9 9 (11.25%) PaaS
9 9 (11.25%) Power Platform
10 8 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
10 8 (10.00%) NuGet
11 7 (8.75%) PowerApps
12 6 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (7.50%) Entra ID
13 5 (6.25%) Azure AKS
13 5 (6.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) DNS
1 1 (1.25%) Firewall
1 1 (1.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 19 (23.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (13.75%) Redis
4 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (6.25%) InterSystems Cache
6 4 (5.00%) OLTP
7 3 (3.75%) Big Data
7 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.75%) Power BI
8 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.25%) Flink
9 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (32.50%) Git
2 5 (6.25%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 2 (2.50%) JMeter
3 2 (2.50%) Postman
3 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.25%) MSTest
4 1 (1.25%) Selenium
4 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.25%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (21.25%) Public Sector
2 15 (18.75%) Finance
3 13 (16.25%) Back Office
4 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Law
6 4 (5.00%) Front Office
6 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Electronics
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.25%) Marketing
7 1 (1.25%) Publishing
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (67.50%) Developer
2 22 (27.50%) Azure Developer
2 22 (27.50%) Senior
3 18 (22.50%) C# Developer
4 15 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 14 (17.50%) .NET Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Backend Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (8.75%) Integration Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Software Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Architect
8 6 (7.50%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Node.js Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Product Owner
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Backend Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Angular Developer
9 5 (6.25%) C# Software Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (61.25%) .NET
2 25 (31.25%) .NET Core
3 15 (18.75%) CSS
3 15 (18.75%) React
4 13 (16.25%) ASP.NET
5 12 (15.00%) HTML
5 12 (15.00%) YAML
6 11 (13.75%) REST
7 10 (12.50%) jQuery
8 9 (11.25%) .NET Framework
8 9 (11.25%) XML
9 7 (8.75%) ARM Templates
9 7 (8.75%) GraphQL
9 7 (8.75%) Node.js
10 5 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (6.25%) JSON
10 5 (6.25%) SignalR
10 5 (6.25%) Swagger
11 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.50%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.25%) BYOD
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (73.75%) DevOps
2 40 (50.00%) Agile
3 31 (38.75%) API Management
4 24 (30.00%) TDD
5 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
6 18 (22.50%) OO
7 16 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 14 (17.50%) Clean Code
8 14 (17.50%) Scrum
9 12 (15.00%) OOD
9 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
10 11 (13.75%) SOLID
11 10 (12.50%) Microservices
12 9 (11.25%) Front End Development
12 9 (11.25%) MVC
13 8 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
13 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 7 (8.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 57 (71.25%) C#
2 30 (37.50%) SQL
3 23 (28.75%) Bicep
4 21 (26.25%) JavaScript
5 17 (21.25%) PowerShell
6 13 (16.25%) Python
7 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.00%) Java
9 2 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.25%) Degree
2 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 8 (10.00%) WCAG
2 5 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) Terraform
2 5 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) SCOM
3 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.25%) Argo
4 1 (1.25%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 26 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) SAP
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle
3 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.25%) BMC
4 1 (1.25%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.25%) Databricks
4 1 (1.25%) Informatica
4 1 (1.25%) Remedy
4 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.25%) VMware