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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 462 513
Rank change year-on-year -90 +51 +78
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 66 45 28
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.16% 0.080%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.44% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 25 14
10th Percentile £425 - £383
25th Percentile £472 £388 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £605 £575 £604
90th Percentile £638 £623 £614
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% -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 15,724 10,215 11,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.33% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,491 6,914 8,297
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 267 278
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.02 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +25.00% -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 24 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 24 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 -85 29 £538 +34.38% 12
South West - 9 £600 -
North of England - 9 £463 - 1
Midlands -48 8 £500 +11.11% 2
North West - 8 £463 - 1
South East -61 7 £615 +2.49% 2
West Midlands -57 6 £500 - 2
East of England - 3 £503 -
East Midlands -12 1 £475 +5.56%
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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 65 (98.48%) Azure
2 24 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 22 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 22 (33.33%) GitHub
4 15 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (22.73%) Serverless
5 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (19.70%) AWS
6 13 (19.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (13.64%) Azure AKS
7 9 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (12.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (12.12%) Azure Functions
9 7 (10.61%) Azure Storage
10 6 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
10 6 (9.09%) GCP
10 6 (9.09%) PaaS
11 5 (7.58%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (7.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (66.67%) VPN
2 40 (60.61%) Firewall
3 22 (33.33%) DNS
3 22 (33.33%) WAN
4 19 (28.79%) Network Security
5 17 (25.76%) BGP
6 12 (18.18%) VLAN
7 11 (16.67%) OSPF
8 10 (15.15%) SD-WAN
8 10 (15.15%) Wireless
9 8 (12.12%) IPsec
10 7 (10.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 6 (9.09%) LAN
12 4 (6.06%) DHCP
12 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
13 3 (4.55%) MPLS
13 3 (4.55%) SSH
13 3 (4.55%) VSAN
14 2 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
14 2 (3.03%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (7.58%) Data Lake
2 5 (7.58%) Delta Lake
2 5 (7.58%) Power BI
3 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Git
1 2 (3.03%) GitLab
1 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.52%) AppScan
2 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.52%) Metasploit
General
1 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.09%) Finance
2 6 (9.09%) Retail
3 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.55%) Local Government
4 3 (4.55%) Military
5 2 (3.03%) Law
5 2 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.52%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Architect
2 18 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 14 (21.21%) Senior
4 12 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (12.12%) Azure Architect
6 8 (12.12%) Consultant
7 6 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
7 6 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Data Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Senior Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Technical Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Designer
9 3 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Network Designer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) ARM Templates
2 4 (6.06%) Kafka
3 2 (3.03%) YAML
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.52%) JSON
4 1 (1.52%) PySpark
4 1 (1.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (19.70%) Cloud Native
2 13 (19.70%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.61%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.58%) SCADA
5 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (6.06%) IoT
6 3 (4.55%) ARM Cortex
6 3 (4.55%) Clustering
6 3 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.55%) Replication
7 2 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.70%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Linux
3 6 (9.09%) VMS
4 4 (6.06%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.55%) SUSE
6 1 (1.52%) Kali Linux
6 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (51.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (43.94%) CI/CD
3 27 (40.91%) RBAC
4 26 (39.39%) DevOps
5 22 (33.33%) Zero Trust
6 21 (31.82%) Validation
7 20 (30.30%) Analytics
8 16 (24.24%) Log Analytics
9 15 (22.73%) Migration
10 13 (19.70%) High Availability
10 13 (19.70%) Observability
10 13 (19.70%) Roadmaps
10 13 (19.70%) Runbook
11 12 (18.18%) Cloud Security
12 11 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
12 11 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
12 11 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (13.64%) Incident Response
13 9 (13.64%) Project Delivery
14 8 (12.12%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Bicep
2 14 (21.21%) PowerShell
2 14 (21.21%) Python
3 13 (19.70%) SQL
4 8 (12.12%) Bash
5 1 (1.52%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Azure Certification
2 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (9.09%) CCNP
4 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.58%) Degree
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.03%) CCSP
7 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.52%) CCIE
8 1 (1.52%) CCNA
8 1 (1.52%) CISM
8 1 (1.52%) CISSP
8 1 (1.52%) CRISC
8 1 (1.52%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.52%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) GDPR
2 10 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (10.61%) NIST
4 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
5 3 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.03%) QA
6 2 (3.03%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.52%) COBIT
7 1 (1.52%) NCSC
7 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.15%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (7.58%) Firmware
4 4 (6.06%) Docker
4 4 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.55%) vSphere
6 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (66.67%) Terraform
2 15 (22.73%) Ansible
3 10 (15.15%) FortiGate
4 7 (10.61%) Kubernetes
5 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (4.55%) SCCM
6 3 (4.55%) vCenter Server
6 3 (4.55%) VxRail
7 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.52%) CASB
8 1 (1.52%) Grafana
8 1 (1.52%) Nessus
8 1 (1.52%) Podman
8 1 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (46.97%) Microsoft
2 16 (24.24%) Cisco
2 16 (24.24%) Zscaler
3 12 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 10 (15.15%) Juniper
5 8 (12.12%) F5
6 6 (9.09%) Fortinet
7 5 (7.58%) Oracle
8 4 (6.06%) Databricks
8 4 (6.06%) Informatica
8 4 (6.06%) SAP
8 4 (6.06%) VMware
9 3 (4.55%) Aruba
9 3 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (4.55%) Dell
9 3 (4.55%) Meraki
9 3 (4.55%) Virgin Media
10 2 (3.03%) Google
10 2 (3.03%) Splunk
11 1 (1.52%) Red Hat