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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 469 550
Rank change year-on-year -36 +81 +157
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 35 52 27
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.17% 0.068%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.47% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 22
10th Percentile £425 £353 £413
25th Percentile £458 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £534
90th Percentile £700 £691 £590
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 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 11,555 11,141 14,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.82% 35.76% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,829 7,399 10,349
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 142 291
10th Percentile £14.90 £19.35 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £23.80 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.48 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.85 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +33.33%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -1 18 £525 -11.39% 1
Midlands -30 8 £500 +33.33% 3
West Midlands -29 6 £525 +40.00% 1
South East +3 4 £600 +41.18% 3
South West +2 4 £675 - 3
East Midlands -17 2 £450 - 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 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Maximo
2 1 (2.86%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (48.57%) Entra ID
3 12 (34.29%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (28.57%) AWS
4 10 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (22.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (22.86%) IaaS
5 8 (22.86%) PaaS
6 6 (17.14%) Azure AKS
6 6 (17.14%) GCP
6 6 (17.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
7 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (11.43%) Azure App Service
8 4 (11.43%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (11.43%) GitHub
8 4 (11.43%) Serverless
9 3 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (8.57%) OpenShift
9 3 (8.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (91.43%) VPN
2 21 (60.00%) Firewall
3 12 (34.29%) DNS
3 12 (34.29%) WAN
4 9 (25.71%) VLAN
5 8 (22.86%) SD-WAN
6 7 (20.00%) DHCP
7 6 (17.14%) BGP
7 6 (17.14%) MPLS
7 6 (17.14%) OSPF
7 6 (17.14%) Wireless
8 5 (14.29%) VSAN
9 4 (11.43%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (11.43%) EIGRP
9 4 (11.43%) IPv4
9 4 (11.43%) IPv6
9 4 (11.43%) LAN
9 4 (11.43%) VXLAN
9 4 (11.43%) WLAN
10 3 (8.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.86%) GIS
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) French Language
5 2 (5.71%) Legal
5 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.71%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Electronics
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (60.00%) Architect
2 9 (25.71%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) Azure Architect
3 8 (22.86%) Cloud Architect
3 8 (22.86%) Network Architect
3 8 (22.86%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) VMware Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Migration Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.71%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.86%) ADO
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 14 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (37.14%) Data Centre
3 8 (22.86%) Cloud Native
4 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (11.43%) IoT
4 4 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.71%) Replication
6 1 (2.86%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Life Science
6 1 (2.86%) NHS
6 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.86%) PKI
6 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) VMS
2 3 (8.57%) Windows
3 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.86%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (48.57%) Migration
2 17 (48.57%) RBAC
3 15 (42.86%) Network Virtualisation
4 14 (40.00%) Analytics
5 11 (31.43%) DevOps
6 10 (28.57%) TOGAF
6 10 (28.57%) Zero Trust
7 9 (25.71%) Cost Optimisation
7 9 (25.71%) Log Analytics
8 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
8 8 (22.86%) Data Protection
8 8 (22.86%) ITIL
9 7 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (20.00%) High Availability
9 7 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
10 6 (17.14%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) PowerShell
2 10 (28.57%) Bicep
3 8 (22.86%) Python
4 5 (14.29%) SQL
5 4 (11.43%) Bash
6 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
3 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
4 8 (22.86%) CCNP
4 8 (22.86%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (20.00%) CISSP
5 7 (20.00%) Degree
6 5 (14.29%) CCIE
7 3 (8.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
7 3 (8.57%) CCIE Security
7 3 (8.57%) CCSP
7 3 (8.57%) CISM
7 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
7 3 (8.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (5.71%) JNCIE
8 2 (5.71%) JNCIP
8 2 (5.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (20.00%) NIST
3 6 (17.14%) GDPR
4 4 (11.43%) PCI DSS
5 3 (8.57%) NIST 800
6 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (5.71%) NCSC
7 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
7 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
7 1 (2.86%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (2.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (2.86%) JSP 440
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (31.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (25.71%) VMware NSX
4 5 (14.29%) vSphere
5 3 (8.57%) Docker
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.86%) Firmware
7 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (60.00%) Terraform
2 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
3 6 (17.14%) Ansible
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.86%) SCCM
5 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.86%) SysTrack
5 1 (2.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (34.29%) Cisco
2 12 (34.29%) VMware
3 7 (20.00%) Meraki
4 6 (17.14%) Fortinet
4 6 (17.14%) Palo Alto
5 5 (14.29%) F5
5 5 (14.29%) SolarWinds
6 4 (11.43%) NetApp
7 3 (8.57%) IBM
7 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
8 2 (5.71%) Brocade
8 2 (5.71%) Databricks
8 2 (5.71%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (5.71%) Forcepoint
8 2 (5.71%) Juniper
8 2 (5.71%) SAP
8 2 (5.71%) Sophos
9 1 (2.86%) Aruba
9 1 (2.86%) CloudEndure