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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 487 564
Rank change year-on-year +22 +77 +161
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 36 46 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.14% 0.085%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.41% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 29
10th Percentile £388 £349 £417
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £619 £614 £590
90th Percentile £703 £696 £730
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 -

All Cloud 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 10,438 11,302 15,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.59% 34.57% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,063 7,706 11,129
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 176 304
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.33 £14.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.99 £67.44
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +62.79%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure ExpressRoute as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure ExpressRoute 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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
London +24 24 £450 -22.91% 5
South East +24 4 £600 +41.18% 3
Midlands -16 4 £450 - 2
East Midlands -7 2 £450 - 2
West Midlands -13 2 - -
South West - 2 £675 - 1
Azure ExpressRoute
UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP PM
2 1 (2.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 15 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (27.78%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (27.78%) IaaS
5 9 (25.00%) AWS
5 9 (25.00%) PaaS
5 9 (25.00%) Serverless
6 6 (16.67%) GitHub
7 5 (13.89%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (13.89%) GCP
7 5 (13.89%) SaaS
8 4 (11.11%) Azure Storage
9 3 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (8.33%) Azure AKS
9 3 (8.33%) Azure App Service
9 3 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 32 (88.89%) VPN
2 22 (61.11%) Firewall
3 12 (33.33%) DNS
4 8 (22.22%) WAN
5 7 (19.44%) NGFW
6 5 (13.89%) VSAN
7 3 (8.33%) SD-WAN
8 2 (5.56%) DHCP
8 2 (5.56%) VLAN
9 1 (2.78%) Internet
9 1 (2.78%) MPLS
9 1 (2.78%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.56%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.56%) GIS
3 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (13.89%) Marketing
2 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.56%) French Language
4 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Legal
4 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Architect
2 14 (38.89%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 9 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
4 7 (19.44%) Network Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Network Support
4 7 (19.44%) Network Support Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Support Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Network Architect
6 3 (8.33%) VMware Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Data Centre Architect
7 2 (5.56%) DevOps Architect
7 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Migration Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 7 (19.44%) ADO
3 2 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Cloud Native
1 10 (27.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 7 (19.44%) Anti-Spyware
4 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
5 3 (8.33%) IoT
6 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (5.56%) Replication
6 2 (5.56%) SCADA
7 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.78%) Life Science
7 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) VMS
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 22 (61.11%) Migration
3 18 (50.00%) RBAC
4 16 (44.44%) DevOps
5 14 (38.89%) Analytics
6 13 (36.11%) Agile
7 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 10 (27.78%) Zero Trust
8 9 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
9 7 (19.44%) ETL
9 7 (19.44%) Kalman Filter
10 6 (16.67%) High Availability
10 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
11 5 (13.89%) Data Engineering
11 5 (13.89%) Data Protection
11 5 (13.89%) FinOps
11 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 5 (13.89%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Bicep
2 10 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 5 (13.89%) SQL
4 4 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (8.33%) CCNP
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (8.33%) Degree
6 2 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.78%) CCDP
7 1 (2.78%) CISM
7 1 (2.78%) CISSP
7 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.78%) Postgraduate
7 1 (2.78%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.78%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.78%) NCSC
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (13.89%) Docker
3 5 (13.89%) VMware NSX
3 5 (13.89%) vSphere
4 4 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (72.22%) Terraform
2 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.56%) Ansible
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.78%) SysTrack
5 1 (2.78%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) CheckPoint
2 7 (19.44%) Infoblox
2 7 (19.44%) Palo Alto
2 7 (19.44%) VMware
3 4 (11.11%) Cisco
3 4 (11.11%) NetApp
4 3 (8.33%) Databricks
5 2 (5.56%) Brocade
5 2 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (5.56%) Informatica
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle
5 2 (5.56%) SAP
5 2 (5.56%) Sophos
6 1 (2.78%) CloudEndure
6 1 (2.78%) IBM
6 1 (2.78%) Red Hat