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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 270 322
Rank change year-on-year +17 +52 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure Service Bus 54 76 133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.42% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 46 112
10th Percentile £305 £414 £406
25th Percentile £410 £500 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £556 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -5.40% +12.00%
75th Percentile £620 £669 £650
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £506 £569 £586
% change year-on-year -10.99% -2.94% +6.55%

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 3,972 5,363 9,406
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.78% 36.53% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 3,861 7,000
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £761 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 86 134
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.19 £16.90 £21.48
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -48.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.19 £69.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £72.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.67% -38.57% +59.09%

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 17 June 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 (1.85%) IIS
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (27.78%) Azure Logic Apps
4 14 (25.93%) Azure API Management
5 12 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 12 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 10 (18.52%) Azure Functions
6 10 (18.52%) Serverless
7 9 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (12.96%) Azure Storage
8 7 (12.96%) GitHub
8 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
9 6 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
9 6 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (9.26%) Azure AKS
10 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (9.26%) PowerApps
11 4 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Network Security
2 2 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (7.41%) Redis
4 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Git
1 4 (7.41%) Selenium
2 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.70%) Liquibase
2 2 (3.70%) Postman
2 2 (3.70%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Moq
3 1 (1.85%) NUnit
3 1 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.56%) Law
5 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.85%) Advertising
6 1 (1.85%) Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (51.85%) Developer
2 11 (20.37%) Azure Developer
3 8 (14.81%) Architect
4 7 (12.96%) Senior
5 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 5 (9.26%) .NET Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Lead
6 5 (9.26%) Python Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Python Software Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Applications Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Backend Developer
7 4 (7.41%) C# Developer
7 4 (7.41%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Data Architect
7 4 (7.41%) Power Apps Developer
8 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (46.30%) .NET
2 10 (18.52%) .NET Core
3 8 (14.81%) React
3 8 (14.81%) YAML
4 7 (12.96%) ADO
4 7 (12.96%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (12.96%) REST
5 6 (11.11%) Kafka
5 6 (11.11%) OAuth
5 6 (11.11%) OAuth2
6 5 (9.26%) .NET Framework
6 5 (9.26%) ASP.NET
6 5 (9.26%) HTML
6 5 (9.26%) HTML5 Canvas
6 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (9.26%) NumPy
6 5 (9.26%) OpenID
6 5 (9.26%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (9.26%) Pandas
6 5 (9.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (7.41%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.70%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.85%) FMCG
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Android
1 4 (7.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (62.96%) DevOps
2 26 (48.15%) Agile
3 21 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 18 (33.33%) Scrum
5 14 (25.93%) Event-Driven
6 13 (24.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (22.22%) API Management
7 12 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.96%) DevSecOps
9 7 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.11%) SOLID
10 6 (11.11%) TDD
10 6 (11.11%) Unit Testing
11 5 (9.26%) Continuous Delivery
11 5 (9.26%) Data Security
11 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
11 5 (9.26%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 30 (55.56%) C#
2 19 (35.19%) Python
3 16 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 10 (18.52%) SQL
5 9 (16.67%) Bicep
6 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
7 7 (12.96%) Java
8 4 (7.41%) TypeScript
9 3 (5.56%) Bash
10 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.70%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) MCAD
5 1 (1.85%) MCPD
5 1 (1.85%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) HL7
1 4 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (22.22%) Terraform
2 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.85%) SAP
3 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.85%) Snow
3 1 (1.85%) webMethods
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