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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 428 510
Rank change year-on-year +34 +82 -36
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 210 282 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.51% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 1.39% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 219 297
10th Percentile £425 £413 £413
25th Percentile £500 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £475
% change year-on-year - +26.32% +6.15%

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 14,031 20,309 33,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 36.46% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,917 14,688 24,753
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 329 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +78.15% +1.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.73% +44.59% -3.76%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +74 198 £600 - 57
London +84 174 £550 -7.56% 28
Work from Home +49 73 £600 +1.69% 43
UK excluding London -2 22 £600 - 29
North of England +24 8 £600 - 17
South East -4 6 £450 -28.00% 4
Yorkshire +15 5 £600 - 3
North West +17 3 £600 -4.00% 10
Midlands +14 3 £600 +41.18% 2
West Midlands +8 3 £600 +41.18% 2
South West +13 2 £563 -5.86% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Scotland +36 1 £550 +4.76% 1

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 (7.14%) CMS
2 3 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.95%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) IIS
4 1 (0.48%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 210 (100.00%) Azure
2 111 (52.86%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (31.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 59 (28.10%) Serverless
5 49 (23.33%) Azure Monitor
6 48 (22.86%) Azure Functions
7 36 (17.14%) Azure API Management
8 33 (15.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 31 (14.76%) Entra ID
10 30 (14.29%) Azure AKS
10 30 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 25 (11.90%) Azure App Service
11 25 (11.90%) GitHub
12 24 (11.43%) PaaS
13 21 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (9.52%) Azure Storage
15 19 (9.05%) Azure Event Grid
16 16 (7.62%) Power Platform
17 14 (6.67%) Azure Pipelines
18 13 (6.19%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (0.95%) DNS
3 1 (0.48%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (41.43%) SQL Server
2 45 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 34 (16.19%) Redis
4 23 (10.95%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.29%) Big Data
7 8 (3.81%) InterSystems Cache
8 7 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.33%) OLTP
9 6 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.90%) GIS
10 4 (1.90%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.90%) Power BI
11 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.48%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.48%) Flink
Development Applications
1 59 (28.10%) Git
2 11 (5.24%) Postman
3 10 (4.76%) JMeter
4 9 (4.29%) Cypress.io
5 8 (3.81%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.33%) SpecFlow
6 7 (3.33%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (1.43%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.95%) JIRA
9 1 (0.48%) GitLab
9 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.48%) Maven
9 1 (0.48%) Moq
9 1 (0.48%) MSTest
9 1 (0.48%) NUnit
9 1 (0.48%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (20.00%) Finance
2 34 (16.19%) Back Office
2 34 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.10%) Front Office
5 15 (7.14%) Banking
6 12 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.38%) German Language
8 5 (2.38%) Law
9 4 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.90%) Local Government
10 2 (0.95%) Electronics
10 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.95%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Police
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 129 (61.43%) Developer
2 62 (29.52%) Senior
3 49 (23.33%) Senior Developer
4 35 (16.67%) Azure Developer
5 30 (14.29%) C# Developer
6 26 (12.38%) .NET Developer
7 23 (10.95%) Backend Developer
8 19 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (9.05%) Senior Backend Developer
9 18 (8.57%) Full Stack Developer
10 17 (8.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 17 (8.10%) Software Engineer
11 13 (6.19%) Architect
11 13 (6.19%) Lead
12 12 (5.71%) Product Owner
13 11 (5.24%) Python Developer
13 11 (5.24%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 10 (4.76%) Azure Architect
14 10 (4.76%) Software Developer
15 9 (4.29%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (59.52%) .NET
2 76 (36.19%) .NET Core
3 59 (28.10%) React
4 44 (20.95%) HTML
5 43 (20.48%) CSS
6 32 (15.24%) ASP.NET
7 27 (12.86%) Kafka
8 24 (11.43%) XML
9 23 (10.95%) YAML
10 19 (9.05%) .NET Framework
10 19 (9.05%) jQuery
11 17 (8.10%) Node.js
11 17 (8.10%) Web Services
12 16 (7.62%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (6.67%) Swagger
14 13 (6.19%) REST
15 12 (5.71%) ARM Templates
16 11 (5.24%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (5.24%) Entity Framework
16 11 (5.24%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.71%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.33%) Machine to Machine
5 6 (2.86%) Derivative
5 6 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.90%) Mobile Payment
6 4 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.90%) Solar Panel
7 3 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.43%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.95%) Wiki
9 1 (0.48%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.48%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.67%) Linux
2 5 (2.38%) Unix
3 2 (0.95%) Android
3 2 (0.95%) Windows
3 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (61.90%) DevOps
2 109 (51.90%) Agile
3 87 (41.43%) API Management
4 76 (36.19%) TDD
5 60 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 45 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 40 (19.05%) OO
7 40 (19.05%) Scrum
8 38 (18.10%) Clean Code
9 35 (16.67%) OOD
10 31 (14.76%) Microservices
11 29 (13.81%) Full Stack Development
11 29 (13.81%) Test Automation
12 23 (10.95%) Front End Development
13 22 (10.48%) Event-Driven
14 20 (9.52%) B2C
14 20 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (9.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 17 (8.10%) Migration
16 17 (8.10%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 134 (63.81%) C#
2 75 (35.71%) SQL
3 60 (28.57%) Bicep
4 50 (23.81%) JavaScript
5 43 (20.48%) TypeScript
6 40 (19.05%) Python
7 35 (16.67%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.24%) Java
9 6 (2.86%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (8.10%) Degree
2 11 (5.24%) Master's Degree
3 9 (4.29%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.95%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.95%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.62%) WCAG
2 14 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 11 (5.24%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 61 (29.05%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.71%) Docker
3 6 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (15.24%) Terraform
2 31 (14.76%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.29%) Argo
4 7 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.95%) SCOM
6 1 (0.48%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 82 (39.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.86%) SAP
3 5 (2.38%) Oracle
4 4 (1.90%) Black Duck
4 4 (1.90%) Informatica
5 3 (1.43%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.95%) Databricks
6 2 (0.95%) ESRI
6 2 (0.95%) Google
6 2 (0.95%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.48%) BMC
7 1 (0.48%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.48%) Nintex
7 1 (0.48%) Remedy
7 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.48%) Sybase
7 1 (0.48%) VMware