Azure ExpressRoute Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.14% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £482 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 - -
75th Percentile £521 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
England median daily rate £503 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +18.24% -19.05% -8.70%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 425 258 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.09% 27.74% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 158 174
10th Percentile £212 £200 £222
25th Percentile £400 £339 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £574
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 34 59
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.65 £15.44 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.00 £19.66 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +20.61% -5.51%
75th Percentile £43.61 £28.67 £21.37
90th Percentile £60.00 £61.98 £65.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.75 £20.77
% change year-on-year +68.22% +28.79% -24.47%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Azure ExpressRoute
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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
Suffolk - 2 £503 - 2
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Azure ExpressRoute
England

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) CISM
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) CRISC
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto