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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 442 540
Rank change year-on-year -79 +98 +118
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 34 53 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.20% 0.022%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.53% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 5
10th Percentile £473 £361 £418
25th Percentile £500 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% - -23.08%
75th Percentile £678 £588 £488
90th Percentile £690 £661 £548
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.28% -8.12%

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 12,140 9,908 12,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.99% 36.81% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,418 6,602 9,078
10th Percentile £300 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 140 257
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.21 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +21.49% +1.75%
75th Percentile £57.06 £46.51 £51.58
90th Percentile £77.19 £68.75 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £29.11 £27.50 £24.02
% change year-on-year +5.85% +14.49% +6.76%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -25 15 £525 -8.70% 6
South West -15 9 £675 +58.82% 1
West Midlands -35 5 £525 +40.00%
Midlands -41 5 £525 +40.00% 2
South East -13 3 £675 - 5
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 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (35.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 11 (32.35%) Entra ID
6 10 (29.41%) AWS
6 10 (29.41%) Azure AKS
7 8 (23.53%) IaaS
7 8 (23.53%) OpenShift
8 7 (20.59%) GCP
8 7 (20.59%) PaaS
9 6 (17.65%) AWS Direct Connect
9 6 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (5.88%) Azure Stack
11 2 (5.88%) SaaS
12 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 29 (85.29%) VPN
2 19 (55.88%) Firewall
3 11 (32.35%) WAN
4 9 (26.47%) SD-WAN
5 7 (20.59%) VLAN
6 6 (17.65%) BGP
6 6 (17.65%) DNS
6 6 (17.65%) Network Security
6 6 (17.65%) OSPF
6 6 (17.65%) Wireless
7 5 (14.71%) DHCP
7 5 (14.71%) MPLS
8 4 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (11.76%) EIGRP
8 4 (11.76%) IPv4
8 4 (11.76%) IPv6
8 4 (11.76%) LAN
8 4 (11.76%) VXLAN
8 4 (11.76%) WLAN
9 2 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
General
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Finance
2 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Electronics
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Architect
3 7 (20.59%) Network Architect
4 6 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Azure Architect
6 4 (11.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Data Centre Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Operations Manager
8 2 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.94%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 18 (52.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (29.41%) Data Centre
3 9 (26.47%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (8.82%) IoT
5 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) Life Science
7 1 (2.94%) NHS
7 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.94%) PKI
7 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.82%) VMS
4 1 (2.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) RBAC
2 18 (52.94%) Analytics
3 16 (47.06%) Log Analytics
4 15 (44.12%) DevOps
4 15 (44.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (44.12%) ITIL
5 13 (38.24%) TOGAF
6 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (32.35%) Cloud Security
8 10 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (26.47%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
10 8 (23.53%) Migration
10 8 (23.53%) Security Operations
10 8 (23.53%) SIEM
10 8 (23.53%) Zero Trust
11 7 (20.59%) Cost Optimisation
11 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
12 6 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (17.65%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Bicep
2 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
2 7 (20.59%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (55.88%) Azure Certification
2 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 16 (47.06%) SC Cleared
4 12 (35.29%) CISSP
5 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (23.53%) CISM
6 8 (23.53%) DV Cleared
6 8 (23.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 6 (17.65%) Degree
8 5 (14.71%) CCIE
8 5 (14.71%) CCNP
8 5 (14.71%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (8.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
9 3 (8.82%) CCIE Security
9 3 (8.82%) CCSP
10 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (5.88%) JNCIE
10 2 (5.88%) JNCIP
11 1 (2.94%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (44.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (35.29%) NIST
3 8 (23.53%) NIST 800
4 5 (14.71%) GDPR
5 4 (11.76%) NCSC
5 4 (11.76%) PCI DSS
6 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
7 1 (2.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
1 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (14.71%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.94%) Docker
4 1 (2.94%) Firmware
4 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (73.53%) Terraform
2 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 8 (23.53%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
5 1 (2.94%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (29.41%) Cisco
3 8 (23.53%) IBM
3 8 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 8 (23.53%) VMware
4 7 (20.59%) Meraki
5 6 (17.65%) Fortinet
6 5 (14.71%) F5
6 5 (14.71%) Palo Alto
6 5 (14.71%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.88%) Brocade
7 2 (5.88%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (5.88%) Forcepoint
7 2 (5.88%) Juniper
8 1 (2.94%) AirMagnet
8 1 (2.94%) Aruba
8 1 (2.94%) CloudEndure
8 1 (2.94%) NetApp
8 1 (2.94%) SAP
8 1 (2.94%) SonicWALL