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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 427 523
Rank change year-on-year -123 +96 +86
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 49 47 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.20% 0.049%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.52% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 9
10th Percentile £413 - £369
25th Percentile £475 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -21.43% -7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £475 £538
90th Percentile £663 £575 £575
UK median daily rate £503 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +21.82% -21.43% -6.67%
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 14,697 8,969 11,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.14% 37.48% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,011 6,159 8,493
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £747
UK median daily rate £508 £508 £525
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 207 324
10th Percentile £15.67 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.96 £15.96
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.63 £38.28
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £68.23
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%

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 29 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 29 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 -88 23 £515 +28.75% 8
South East - 7 £675 - 5
South West -32 5 - -
Midlands -55 5 £500 - 2
West Midlands -57 5 £500 -
North West -31 4 £425 -5.56%
North of England -71 4 £425 -5.56%
East of England - 3 £503 - 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 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 48 (97.96%) Azure
2 17 (34.69%) Azure Monitor
3 15 (30.61%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 13 (26.53%) AWS
5 13 (26.53%) Azure AKS
6 12 (24.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (18.37%) GitHub
8 7 (14.29%) GCP
8 7 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (14.29%) Serverless
9 6 (12.24%) AWS Direct Connect
9 6 (12.24%) IaaS
9 6 (12.24%) PaaS
10 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (10.20%) OpenShift
11 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (75.51%) VPN
2 30 (61.22%) Firewall
3 17 (34.69%) Network Security
4 13 (26.53%) WAN
5 10 (20.41%) DNS
5 10 (20.41%) SD-WAN
6 7 (14.29%) VLAN
7 6 (12.24%) BGP
8 5 (10.20%) LAN
8 5 (10.20%) OSPF
8 5 (10.20%) Wireless
9 4 (8.16%) VSAN
10 3 (6.12%) IPsec
11 2 (4.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (4.08%) Internet
11 2 (4.08%) MPLS
11 2 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (2.04%) Multicast
12 1 (2.04%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.12%) Delta Lake
2 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) AppScan
1 1 (2.04%) Burp Suite
1 1 (2.04%) Git
1 1 (2.04%) GitLab
1 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.04%) Metasploit
1 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.12%) Finance
3 2 (4.08%) Law
3 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.08%) Retail
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.04%) Local Government
4 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Architect
1 15 (30.61%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (24.49%) Network Engineer
3 11 (22.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Azure Architect
5 7 (14.29%) Senior
5 7 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Consultant
9 3 (6.12%) Data Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) ARM Templates
2 3 (6.12%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (24.49%) Data Centre
3 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (10.20%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
5 4 (8.16%) Replication
5 4 (8.16%) SCADA
6 3 (6.12%) Clustering
6 3 (6.12%) IoT
6 3 (6.12%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (4.08%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) VMS
3 4 (8.16%) Linux
4 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.12%) SUSE
5 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.04%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 21 (42.86%) DevOps
2 20 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (40.82%) RBAC
3 15 (30.61%) Analytics
4 13 (26.53%) Zero Trust
5 12 (24.49%) Log Analytics
6 11 (22.45%) Cloud Security
7 9 (18.37%) High Availability
7 9 (18.37%) Validation
8 8 (16.33%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (16.33%) SIEM
9 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (14.29%) ITIL
10 6 (12.24%) DevSecOps
10 6 (12.24%) Migration
10 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
10 6 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (10.20%) Network Design
11 5 (10.20%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) Bicep
2 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 6 (12.24%) Python
4 5 (10.20%) SQL
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 19 (38.78%) Azure Certification
2 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
3 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (12.24%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (12.24%) CISM
5 6 (12.24%) CISSP
6 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
6 5 (10.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.16%) CCNP
8 2 (4.08%) CCSP
9 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.04%) CCNA
9 1 (2.04%) CRISC
9 1 (2.04%) Degree
9 1 (2.04%) JNCIA
9 1 (2.04%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (22.45%) NIST
3 9 (18.37%) GDPR
4 5 (10.20%) NIST 800
5 4 (8.16%) NCSC
6 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
7 2 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
8 1 (2.04%) COBIT
8 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.20%) Firmware
2 5 (10.20%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.16%) vSphere
4 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.04%) Docker
5 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (59.18%) Terraform
2 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.33%) Ansible
4 4 (8.16%) FortiGate
5 3 (6.12%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (6.12%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.12%) VxRail
6 1 (2.04%) Grafana
6 1 (2.04%) Nessus
6 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.37%) Cisco
3 5 (10.20%) IBM
3 5 (10.20%) Juniper
3 5 (10.20%) Palo Alto
3 5 (10.20%) Red Hat
3 5 (10.20%) Zscaler
4 4 (8.16%) Databricks
4 4 (8.16%) VMware
5 3 (6.12%) Aruba
5 3 (6.12%) Dell
5 3 (6.12%) Informatica
5 3 (6.12%) Meraki
5 3 (6.12%) Oracle
5 3 (6.12%) SAP
5 3 (6.12%) Virgin Media
6 2 (4.08%) F5
6 2 (4.08%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.04%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds