Azure ExpressRoute Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 445 534
Rank change year-on-year -110 +89 +60
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 59 49 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.19% 0.059%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.50% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 12
10th Percentile £423 - £378
25th Percentile £475 £388 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £585
90th Percentile £650 £613 £614
UK median daily rate £538 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +19.44% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
UK median hourly rate - - £23.80

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,363 9,838 12,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.70% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,344 6,633 8,684
10th Percentile £325 £310 £308
25th Percentile £415 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 254 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.03 £14.13
25th Percentile £23.17 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.33 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.04% +15.11% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in England

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure ExpressRoute in England

Azure ExpressRoute
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure ExpressRoute

Azure ExpressRoute
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
London -80 26 £563 +40.63% 11
South West -21 9 £600 +41.18% 2
Midlands -57 8 £500 +11.11% 3
North of England -65 7 £425 -5.56% 1
North West -37 6 £425 -5.56% 1
West Midlands -58 6 £500 - 2
South East -57 5 £675 +3.85% 4
East of England - 3 £503 -
East Midlands -15 1 £475 +5.56% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Azure ExpressRoute
UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 58 (98.31%) Azure
2 20 (33.90%) Entra ID
3 18 (30.51%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (25.42%) GitHub
5 14 (23.73%) Serverless
6 12 (20.34%) AWS
7 11 (18.64%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (18.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (18.64%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (16.95%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (15.25%) Azure AKS
10 8 (13.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (11.86%) Azure Functions
11 7 (11.86%) Azure Storage
12 6 (10.17%) GCP
13 5 (8.47%) AWS Direct Connect
13 5 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (8.47%) IaaS
13 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (61.02%) Firewall
1 36 (61.02%) VPN
2 22 (37.29%) WAN
3 19 (32.20%) DNS
4 16 (27.12%) Network Security
5 13 (22.03%) BGP
6 10 (16.95%) SD-WAN
7 9 (15.25%) VLAN
8 8 (13.56%) Wireless
9 7 (11.86%) OSPF
10 6 (10.17%) LAN
11 5 (8.47%) IPsec
12 4 (6.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 3 (5.08%) VSAN
14 2 (3.39%) Cisco ISE
14 2 (3.39%) Internet
14 2 (3.39%) MPLS
14 2 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
15 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
15 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (8.47%) Data Lake
2 5 (8.47%) Delta Lake
2 5 (8.47%) Power BI
3 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) AppScan
1 1 (1.69%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.69%) Git
1 1 (1.69%) GitLab
1 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.69%) Metasploit
1 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Finance
3 4 (6.78%) Retail
4 3 (5.08%) Local Government
5 2 (3.39%) Law
5 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Architect
2 15 (25.42%) Network Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Senior
5 9 (15.25%) Azure Architect
5 9 (15.25%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (13.56%) Consultant
7 6 (10.17%) Azure Consultant
8 4 (6.78%) Data Architect
8 4 (6.78%) Senior Architect
8 4 (6.78%) Technical Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) ARM Templates
2 4 (6.78%) Kafka
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.69%) PySpark
3 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 12 (20.34%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.47%) SCADA
4 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) IoT
4 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.08%) Clustering
5 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.08%) Replication
6 2 (3.39%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Windows
2 6 (10.17%) VMS
3 5 (8.47%) Linux
4 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.08%) SUSE
5 1 (1.69%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (38.98%) CI/CD
2 23 (38.98%) RBAC
3 20 (33.90%) DevOps
4 18 (30.51%) Analytics
4 18 (30.51%) Zero Trust
5 16 (27.12%) Validation
6 14 (23.73%) Log Analytics
7 13 (22.03%) Migration
7 13 (22.03%) Roadmaps
8 12 (20.34%) High Availability
9 11 (18.64%) Architectural Patterns
9 11 (18.64%) Cost Optimisation
9 11 (18.64%) Runbook
10 8 (13.56%) Cloud Security
10 8 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (13.56%) Observability
11 7 (11.86%) Incident Response
11 7 (11.86%) Network Design
12 6 (10.17%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.42%) Bicep
2 12 (20.34%) SQL
3 8 (13.56%) Python
4 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.69%) Bash
5 1 (1.69%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 15 (25.42%) Azure Certification
2 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.47%) CCNP
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.39%) CCSP
8 2 (3.39%) Degree
9 1 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.69%) CCNA
9 1 (1.69%) CISM
9 1 (1.69%) CISSP
9 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.69%) CRISC
9 1 (1.69%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.69%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) GDPR
1 11 (18.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (11.86%) NIST
3 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.39%) NCSC
5 2 (3.39%) QA
5 2 (3.39%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.69%) COBIT
6 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (15.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.47%) Firmware
4 4 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (5.08%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (5.08%) vSphere
6 2 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (59.32%) Terraform
2 10 (16.95%) FortiGate
3 9 (15.25%) Ansible
4 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.08%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.08%) vCenter Server
5 3 (5.08%) VxRail
6 1 (1.69%) CASB
6 1 (1.69%) Grafana
6 1 (1.69%) Nessus
6 1 (1.69%) Podman
6 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (44.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.03%) Zscaler
3 12 (20.34%) Cisco
4 9 (15.25%) Palo Alto
5 7 (11.86%) Juniper
6 5 (8.47%) Databricks
7 4 (6.78%) F5
7 4 (6.78%) Fortinet
7 4 (6.78%) Informatica
7 4 (6.78%) Oracle
7 4 (6.78%) SAP
8 3 (5.08%) Aruba
8 3 (5.08%) Dell
8 3 (5.08%) Meraki
8 3 (5.08%) Virgin Media
8 3 (5.08%) VMware
9 2 (3.39%) Google
10 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.69%) LogRhythm
10 1 (1.69%) Red Hat