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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 433 528
Rank change year-on-year -95 +95 +107
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 52 46 12
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.19% 0.032%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.50% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 4
10th Percentile £425 - £455
25th Percentile £493 £388 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £506 £538
90th Percentile £675 £575 -
UK median daily rate £525 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% -12.50%

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 14,109 9,216 12,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.54% 37.82% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,721 6,497 8,664
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 181 317
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +26.37% -20.08%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.50 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -24.85%

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 4 April 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 4 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
London -69 23 £525 +31.25% 9
Midlands - 10 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 10 £500 -
South West -27 7 - - 1
South East - 7 £675 - 5
North West -44 2 £400 -11.11%
North of England -73 2 £400 -11.11% 2
East of England - 1 - - 2
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 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 51 (98.08%) Azure
2 20 (38.46%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (30.77%) Entra ID
4 15 (28.85%) Azure AKS
5 14 (26.92%) AWS
6 13 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (21.15%) GCP
8 7 (13.46%) AWS Direct Connect
8 7 (13.46%) IaaS
8 7 (13.46%) OpenShift
8 7 (13.46%) PaaS
8 7 (13.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (11.54%) GitHub
9 6 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (11.54%) Serverless
10 5 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 42 (80.77%) VPN
2 34 (65.38%) Firewall
3 17 (32.69%) WAN
4 16 (30.77%) Network Security
5 15 (28.85%) SD-WAN
6 13 (25.00%) VLAN
7 12 (23.08%) DNS
8 11 (21.15%) BGP
9 10 (19.23%) OSPF
10 9 (17.31%) Wireless
11 8 (15.38%) LAN
12 7 (13.46%) MPLS
13 5 (9.62%) DHCP
13 5 (9.62%) EIGRP
13 5 (9.62%) VXLAN
14 4 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (7.69%) IPv4
14 4 (7.69%) IPv6
14 4 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (7.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (5.77%) Delta Lake
1 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
1 3 (5.77%) Oracle Database
1 3 (5.77%) Power BI
2 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) AppScan
2 1 (1.92%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.92%) GitLab
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Electronics
6 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) Architect
2 17 (32.69%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) Azure Architect
4 9 (17.31%) Network Engineer
5 8 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Network Architect
7 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Senior
8 4 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Consultant
9 3 (5.77%) Data Architect
9 3 (5.77%) Migration Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.92%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.77%) Kafka
3 2 (3.85%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.92%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 18 (34.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (26.92%) Data Centre
3 8 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
5 5 (9.62%) IoT
6 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
6 4 (7.69%) Replication
6 4 (7.69%) SCADA
7 3 (5.77%) Clustering
7 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
8 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.92%) NHS
9 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) VMS
1 7 (13.46%) Windows
2 4 (7.69%) Linux
3 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.77%) SUSE
4 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.92%) Android
5 1 (1.92%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) RBAC
2 19 (36.54%) Analytics
2 19 (36.54%) DevOps
2 19 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (32.69%) CI/CD
4 15 (28.85%) Log Analytics
5 14 (26.92%) ITIL
6 13 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 13 (25.00%) Zero Trust
7 12 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (21.15%) TOGAF
9 10 (19.23%) High Availability
9 10 (19.23%) Roadmaps
9 10 (19.23%) SIEM
10 9 (17.31%) Migration
11 8 (15.38%) Load Balancing
11 8 (15.38%) Validation
12 7 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
12 7 (13.46%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Bicep
2 10 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 9 (17.31%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) SQL
5 2 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (1.92%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 24 (46.15%) Azure Certification
2 19 (36.54%) Security Cleared
3 15 (28.85%) SC Cleared
4 11 (21.15%) CISSP
4 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (13.46%) CCNP
5 7 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (13.46%) CISM
5 7 (13.46%) DV Cleared
5 7 (13.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (9.62%) AWS Certification
6 5 (9.62%) CCIE
6 5 (9.62%) Degree
7 3 (5.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (5.77%) CCIE Security
7 3 (5.77%) CCSP
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.85%) CCNA
8 2 (3.85%) JNCIE
8 2 (3.85%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (34.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (25.00%) NIST
3 10 (19.23%) GDPR
4 7 (13.46%) NIST 800
5 5 (9.62%) NCSC
5 5 (9.62%) PCI DSS
6 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
7 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.92%) COBIT
8 1 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 6 (11.54%) Firmware
4 5 (9.62%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (9.62%) VMware NSX
5 4 (7.69%) vSphere
6 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.77%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (63.46%) Terraform
2 11 (21.15%) Ansible
2 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.77%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (5.77%) FortiGate
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (5.77%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.77%) VxRail
5 1 (1.92%) Grafana
5 1 (1.92%) Nessus
5 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (26.92%) Cisco
3 9 (17.31%) Meraki
3 9 (17.31%) VMware
4 7 (13.46%) Fortinet
4 7 (13.46%) IBM
4 7 (13.46%) Palo Alto
4 7 (13.46%) Red Hat
5 6 (11.54%) F5
5 6 (11.54%) Juniper
5 6 (11.54%) SolarWinds
6 4 (7.69%) Aruba
6 4 (7.69%) Databricks
6 4 (7.69%) SAP
7 3 (5.77%) Dell
7 3 (5.77%) Informatica
7 3 (5.77%) Oracle
7 3 (5.77%) Virgin Media
7 3 (5.77%) Zscaler
8 2 (3.85%) Forcepoint