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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 435 527
Rank change year-on-year -102 +92 +107
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 48 47 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.19% 0.038%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.52% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 4
10th Percentile £413 - £455
25th Percentile £475 £388 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £581 £506 £538
90th Percentile £653 £575 -
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 14,310 9,086 11,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.42% 37.23% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,847 6,350 8,541
10th Percentile £315 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 193 323
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.02 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £46.40 £25.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +81.96% +22.77% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £41.50 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.13 £73.50 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -84 21 £500 +25.00% 5
South East - 7 £675 - 2
South West -33 6 - -
West Midlands - 5 £500 -
Midlands - 5 £500 - 2
North West -36 4 £425 -5.56%
North of England -58 4 £425 -5.56% 2
East of England - 3 £503 - 3
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 47 (97.92%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 15 (31.25%) Azure AKS
4 14 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (27.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 13 (27.08%) Entra ID
6 12 (25.00%) AWS
7 7 (14.58%) GCP
7 7 (14.58%) GitHub
7 7 (14.58%) IaaS
7 7 (14.58%) PaaS
8 6 (12.50%) OpenShift
9 5 (10.42%) AWS Direct Connect
9 5 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (10.42%) Serverless
10 4 (8.33%) Azure Stack
10 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
11 3 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (79.17%) VPN
2 29 (60.42%) Firewall
3 17 (35.42%) Network Security
4 12 (25.00%) WAN
5 11 (22.92%) SD-WAN
6 9 (18.75%) DNS
6 9 (18.75%) VLAN
7 7 (14.58%) BGP
8 6 (12.50%) OSPF
9 5 (10.42%) Wireless
10 4 (8.33%) LAN
10 4 (8.33%) VSAN
11 3 (6.25%) Internet
11 3 (6.25%) IPsec
11 3 (6.25%) MPLS
11 3 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 1 (2.08%) Cisco Wireless
13 1 (2.08%) Multicast
13 1 (2.08%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (6.25%) Delta Lake
1 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.25%) Oracle Database
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) AppScan
2 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (10.42%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Law
4 2 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Electronics
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Architect
3 10 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) Azure Architect
4 9 (18.75%) Network Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Senior
6 5 (10.42%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Consultant
8 3 (6.25%) Data Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Network Designer
9 2 (4.17%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) ARM Templates
2 3 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (2.08%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 18 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (14.58%) Cloud Native
4 6 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (8.33%) IoT
5 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
5 4 (8.33%) Replication
5 4 (8.33%) SCADA
6 3 (6.25%) Clustering
6 3 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
7 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (2.08%) NHS
8 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Windows
2 5 (10.42%) VMS
3 4 (8.33%) Linux
4 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.25%) SUSE
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.08%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) RBAC
2 19 (39.58%) CI/CD
2 19 (39.58%) DevOps
2 19 (39.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (31.25%) Analytics
4 13 (27.08%) Cloud Security
5 11 (22.92%) Log Analytics
6 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (20.83%) Zero Trust
7 9 (18.75%) High Availability
7 9 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (18.75%) SIEM
7 9 (18.75%) Validation
8 8 (16.67%) ITIL
8 8 (16.67%) Migration
9 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
9 7 (14.58%) TOGAF
10 6 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (12.50%) Observability
10 6 (12.50%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Bicep
2 8 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 7 (14.58%) Python
4 3 (6.25%) SQL
5 2 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.08%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) Azure Certification
2 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
3 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (16.67%) CISSP
5 7 (14.58%) CISM
5 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (12.50%) DV Cleared
6 6 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
7 4 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.33%) CCNP
8 2 (4.17%) CCIE
8 2 (4.17%) CCNA
8 2 (4.17%) CCSP
9 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.08%) CRISC
9 1 (2.08%) CWNA
9 1 (2.08%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (20.83%) NIST
3 7 (14.58%) GDPR
4 6 (12.50%) NIST 800
5 4 (8.33%) NCSC
6 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
7 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (4.17%) SOC 2
8 1 (2.08%) COBIT
8 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
1 5 (10.42%) Firmware
1 5 (10.42%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.33%) vSphere
3 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.08%) Docker
4 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (60.42%) Terraform
2 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.67%) Ansible
4 4 (8.33%) FortiGate
5 3 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (6.25%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.25%) VxRail
6 1 (2.08%) Grafana
6 1 (2.08%) Nessus
6 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.75%) Cisco
3 6 (12.50%) IBM
3 6 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.42%) Juniper
5 4 (8.33%) Aruba
5 4 (8.33%) Databricks
5 4 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 4 (8.33%) Meraki
5 4 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 4 (8.33%) SAP
5 4 (8.33%) VMware
5 4 (8.33%) Zscaler
6 3 (6.25%) Dell
6 3 (6.25%) Informatica
6 3 (6.25%) Oracle
6 3 (6.25%) Virgin Media
7 2 (4.17%) F5
8 1 (2.08%) Google
8 1 (2.08%) Splunk