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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 471 490
Rank change year-on-year -81 +19 +85
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 72 44 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 24 16
10th Percentile £430 - £388
25th Percentile £463 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £585
90th Percentile £638 £655 £614
UK median daily rate £538 £450 £519
% change year-on-year +19.44% -13.25% +3.75%
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 15,945 10,274 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.97% 37.18% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,633 6,952 7,950
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 275 230
10th Percentile £15.94 £15.03 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.31 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% +6.95% -23.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.58 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.36% -24.48%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -74 32 £520 +30.00% 16
North of England - 11 £500 - 2
South West -39 9 £600 -11.11% 1
Midlands -44 8 £500 +11.11% 1
South East -66 8 £615 +2.49% 4
North West - 7 £500 - 1
West Midlands -49 6 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 4 - - 1
East of England - 3 £503 -
East Midlands -21 1 £475 +5.56%
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 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 69 (95.83%) Azure
2 26 (36.11%) Entra ID
2 26 (36.11%) GitHub
3 24 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 18 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (20.83%) AWS
5 15 (20.83%) Serverless
6 13 (18.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (13.89%) Azure AKS
7 10 (13.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
9 8 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (11.11%) Azure Functions
10 7 (9.72%) Azure Storage
10 7 (9.72%) GCP
10 7 (9.72%) PaaS
11 5 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (6.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 47 (65.28%) VPN
2 44 (61.11%) Firewall
3 24 (33.33%) DNS
3 24 (33.33%) WAN
4 20 (27.78%) Network Security
5 19 (26.39%) BGP
6 13 (18.06%) VLAN
7 11 (15.28%) OSPF
7 11 (15.28%) SD-WAN
8 10 (13.89%) Wireless
9 7 (9.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 7 (9.72%) IPsec
9 7 (9.72%) LAN
10 5 (6.94%) DHCP
10 5 (6.94%) TCP/IP
11 4 (5.56%) VXLAN
12 3 (4.17%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (4.17%) MPLS
12 3 (4.17%) SSH
12 3 (4.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
2 5 (6.94%) Delta Lake
2 5 (6.94%) Power BI
3 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) GitLab
2 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Finance
4 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.33%) Retail
5 4 (5.56%) Local Government
6 3 (4.17%) Military
7 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Law
7 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.39%) Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (31.94%) Network Engineer
2 19 (26.39%) Architect
3 15 (20.83%) Azure Engineer
3 15 (20.83%) Senior
4 13 (18.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (9.72%) Azure Architect
6 7 (9.72%) Consultant
7 6 (8.33%) Azure Consultant
7 6 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Data Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Design Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Network Design Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Technical Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Network Designer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.56%) Kafka
3 2 (2.78%) YAML
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.39%) JSON
4 1 (1.39%) PySpark
4 1 (1.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (19.44%) Cloud Native
3 12 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 8 (11.11%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (6.94%) SCADA
6 4 (5.56%) IoT
6 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.17%) ARM Cortex
7 3 (4.17%) Clustering
7 3 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 3 (4.17%) Replication
8 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.78%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.67%) Windows
2 9 (12.50%) Linux
3 6 (8.33%) VMS
4 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.17%) SUSE
6 1 (1.39%) Android
6 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 32 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 31 (43.06%) DevOps
4 30 (41.67%) RBAC
5 23 (31.94%) Zero Trust
6 22 (30.56%) Validation
7 20 (27.78%) Analytics
8 16 (22.22%) Cloud Security
8 16 (22.22%) High Availability
8 16 (22.22%) Log Analytics
8 16 (22.22%) Migration
9 14 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (19.44%) Observability
10 13 (18.06%) Roadmaps
10 13 (18.06%) Runbook
11 12 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
12 11 (15.28%) Architectural Patterns
13 10 (13.89%) Incident Response
13 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.56%) Bicep
2 18 (25.00%) Python
3 17 (23.61%) PowerShell
4 13 (18.06%) SQL
5 11 (15.28%) Bash
6 1 (1.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Azure Certification
2 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (9.72%) CCNP
4 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.94%) Degree
6 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.78%) CCIE
7 2 (2.78%) CCSP
7 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.39%) CCNA
8 1 (1.39%) CISM
8 1 (1.39%) CISSP
8 1 (1.39%) CRISC
8 1 (1.39%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.39%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) GDPR
1 10 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.33%) NIST
3 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.78%) NCSC
5 2 (2.78%) QA
5 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (15.28%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (6.94%) Docker
3 5 (6.94%) Firmware
4 4 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.17%) vSphere
6 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (68.06%) Terraform
2 16 (22.22%) Ansible
3 11 (15.28%) Kubernetes
4 10 (13.89%) FortiGate
5 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (4.17%) SCCM
6 3 (4.17%) vCenter Server
6 3 (4.17%) VxRail
7 1 (1.39%) CASB
7 1 (1.39%) Cilium
7 1 (1.39%) Grafana
7 1 (1.39%) Podman
7 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (51.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (23.61%) Cisco
3 16 (22.22%) Zscaler
4 13 (18.06%) Palo Alto
5 11 (15.28%) Juniper
6 8 (11.11%) F5
7 7 (9.72%) Fortinet
8 5 (6.94%) Oracle
9 4 (5.56%) Databricks
9 4 (5.56%) Google
9 4 (5.56%) Informatica
9 4 (5.56%) SAP
9 4 (5.56%) VMware
10 3 (4.17%) Aruba
10 3 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (4.17%) Dell
10 3 (4.17%) Meraki
10 3 (4.17%) Virgin Media
11 2 (2.78%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.78%) Splunk