Azure ExpressRoute Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 54 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% 0.66% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 2.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £548 £475
% change year-on-year -4.11% +15.26% -5.00%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

Azure ExpressRoute falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 264 153 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.45% 25.25% 36.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 87 223
10th Percentile £211 £187 £263
25th Percentile £360 £356 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £450 £468
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -3.74% -4.30%
75th Percentile £500 £541 £532
90th Percentile £613 £613 £613
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 17
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.49 £11.51
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £29.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% +65.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £24.03 £43.51 £33.25
90th Percentile £38.94 £50.40 £90.75
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.43
% change year-on-year -14.99% +32.07% +4.11%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure ExpressRoute relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure ExpressRoute

Azure ExpressRoute
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
Leicestershire - 2 £450 - 2
Azure ExpressRoute
England

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform