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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 481 480
Rank change year-on-year -81 -1 +81
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 66 33 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.31% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 17 27
10th Percentile £450 £408 £351
25th Percentile £500 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £626
90th Percentile £650 £705 £694
UK median daily rate £600 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +29.17% -7.10% -
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 16,037 10,617 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.00% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,689 7,193 7,615
10th Percentile £319 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
% change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -72 32 £600 +33.33% 34
North of England - 11 £513 - 1
South West -32 9 £600 -11.11% 2
South East -68 6 £615 +2.49% 5
North West - 6 £513 - 1
Midlands -44 5 £513 +13.89% 2
Yorkshire - 5 - -
East of England - 3 £505 - 1
East Midlands -15 2 £475 +5.56%
West Midlands -45 2 - - 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 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.52%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 63 (95.45%) Azure
2 23 (34.85%) GitHub
3 21 (31.82%) Entra ID
4 20 (30.30%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (22.73%) AWS
5 15 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (19.70%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
8 11 (16.67%) Serverless
9 9 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (10.61%) Azure Functions
10 7 (10.61%) Azure Storage
10 7 (10.61%) PaaS
11 6 (9.09%) Azure AKS
12 5 (7.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (7.58%) GCP
12 5 (7.58%) IaaS
12 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (60.61%) Firewall
1 40 (60.61%) VPN
2 25 (37.88%) DNS
3 23 (34.85%) WAN
4 21 (31.82%) BGP
5 16 (24.24%) Network Security
6 13 (19.70%) OSPF
7 10 (15.15%) SD-WAN
8 8 (12.12%) VLAN
9 7 (10.61%) DHCP
9 7 (10.61%) IPsec
9 7 (10.61%) Wireless
10 6 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (9.09%) LAN
10 6 (9.09%) MPLS
10 6 (9.09%) TCP/IP
11 4 (6.06%) SSH
12 3 (4.55%) EIGRP
12 3 (4.55%) VXLAN
13 2 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (7.58%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.03%) Delta Lake
3 2 (3.03%) Power BI
4 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) GitLab
2 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.52%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Finance
3 10 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Retail
5 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.06%) Banking
6 4 (6.06%) Local Government
7 3 (4.55%) Military
8 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.03%) Legal
8 2 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 16 (24.24%) Senior
3 13 (19.70%) Architect
4 12 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (9.09%) Consultant
8 5 (7.58%) Azure Architect
8 5 (7.58%) Azure Consultant
9 4 (6.06%) IT Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) IT Support
9 4 (6.06%) IT Support Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Network Operations Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Operations Support Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Architect
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Support Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (63.64%) Terraform
2 7 (10.61%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.03%) YAML
4 1 (1.52%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.52%) Flask
4 1 (1.52%) JSON
4 1 (1.52%) Kafka
4 1 (1.52%) LangChain
4 1 (1.52%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.52%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (1.52%) PySpark
4 1 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (1.52%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 22 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (22.73%) Data Centre
3 11 (16.67%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (7.58%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.55%) ARM Cortex
5 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.55%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.03%) SCADA
7 1 (1.52%) CMDB
7 1 (1.52%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.52%) IoT
7 1 (1.52%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.52%) NHS
7 1 (1.52%) PKI
7 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.15%) Windows
2 7 (10.61%) Linux
3 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.03%) Android
4 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.03%) VMS
5 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 25 (37.88%) CI/CD
2 25 (37.88%) DevOps
3 23 (34.85%) RBAC
4 21 (31.82%) Zero Trust
5 17 (25.76%) Migration
5 17 (25.76%) Validation
6 16 (24.24%) Analytics
7 15 (22.73%) Cloud Security
7 15 (22.73%) Log Analytics
8 13 (19.70%) Runbook
9 12 (18.18%) Incident Response
9 12 (18.18%) Roadmaps
10 11 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
10 11 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (16.67%) High Availability
10 11 (16.67%) Observability
11 10 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (15.15%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Python
2 18 (27.27%) Bicep
3 15 (22.73%) PowerShell
4 12 (18.18%) Bash
5 10 (15.15%) SQL
6 1 (1.52%) C
6 1 (1.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (9.09%) CCNP
4 6 (9.09%) Degree
4 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.03%) CCIE
6 2 (3.03%) CCSP
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.52%) CISM
7 1 (1.52%) CISSP
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.52%) CRISC
7 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (9.09%) GDPR
3 5 (7.58%) NIST
4 3 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (4.55%) QA
5 2 (3.03%) NCSC
5 2 (3.03%) SLA
5 2 (3.03%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (19.70%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.06%) Docker
3 4 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (27.27%) Ansible
2 11 (16.67%) FortiGate
3 10 (15.15%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.55%) SCCM
5 1 (1.52%) CASB
5 1 (1.52%) Cilium
5 1 (1.52%) Control-M
5 1 (1.52%) Podman
5 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.52%) Puppet
5 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (56.06%) Microsoft
2 19 (28.79%) Cisco
3 17 (25.76%) Palo Alto
4 14 (21.21%) Zscaler
5 11 (16.67%) Fortinet
6 9 (13.64%) Juniper
7 8 (12.12%) F5
8 4 (6.06%) Google
9 3 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (4.55%) Oracle
9 3 (4.55%) VMware
10 2 (3.03%) Aruba
10 2 (3.03%) Splunk
11 1 (1.52%) Foundry
11 1 (1.52%) Informatica
11 1 (1.52%) Meraki
11 1 (1.52%) Murex
11 1 (1.52%) New Relic
11 1 (1.52%) SAP
11 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds