Azure ExpressRoute Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure ExpressRoute over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 531 589
Rank change year-on-year +86 +58 +125
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 49 22 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.059% 0.095%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 33
10th Percentile - £378 £373
25th Percentile £388 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £613
90th Percentile £613 £614 £745
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 -

All Cloud 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 9,713 12,120 17,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.59% 32.47% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,558 8,660 12,603
10th Percentile £312 £307 £320
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 329 288
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.25 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure ExpressRoute as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure ExpressRoute in England

Azure ExpressRoute
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure ExpressRoute in England

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure ExpressRoute in England

Azure ExpressRoute
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure ExpressRoute in England

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 July 2025. 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 +60 38 £400 -23.81% 30
South West +39 4 £425 - 9
Midlands - 4 £450 - 16
South East +54 2 £650 - 18
West Midlands - 2 - - 8
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 8
North of England - 1 £450 - 18
North West - 1 £450 - 7
Azure ExpressRoute
UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 48 (97.96%) Azure
2 15 (30.61%) Entra ID
3 11 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (20.41%) Azure Storage
5 9 (18.37%) Azure App Service
6 8 (16.33%) IaaS
6 8 (16.33%) PaaS
6 8 (16.33%) SaaS
6 8 (16.33%) Serverless
7 7 (14.29%) AWS
7 7 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (12.24%) GitHub
9 5 (10.20%) GCP
10 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (6.12%) OneDrive
11 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
11 2 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 39 (79.59%) Firewall
2 32 (65.31%) VPN
3 22 (44.90%) DNS
4 16 (32.65%) NGFW
5 6 (12.24%) WAN
6 4 (8.16%) Network Security
6 4 (8.16%) VSAN
7 3 (6.12%) Skype
8 2 (4.08%) BGP
9 1 (2.04%) DHCP
9 1 (2.04%) Internet
9 1 (2.04%) MPLS
9 1 (2.04%) SD-WAN
9 1 (2.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.08%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.08%) GIS
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.08%) Power BI
3 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.08%) JIRA
General
1 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.20%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Marketing
4 3 (6.12%) Legal
5 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.04%) French Language
5 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (44.90%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (40.82%) Architect
3 17 (34.69%) Network Engineer
4 16 (32.65%) Network Support
4 16 (32.65%) Network Support Engineer
4 16 (32.65%) Support Engineer
5 14 (28.57%) Azure Architect
6 7 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (10.20%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Consultant
9 2 (4.08%) Data Architect
9 2 (4.08%) DevOps Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Network Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Senior
9 2 (4.08%) VMware Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.65%) ADO
2 13 (26.53%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.08%) Kafka
4 1 (2.04%) .NET
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (2.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.65%) Anti-Spyware
2 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Clustering
4 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) IoT
4 2 (4.08%) SCADA
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) NHS
5 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) VMS
2 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (57.14%) Migration
3 22 (44.90%) Agile
4 18 (36.73%) RBAC
5 17 (34.69%) Kalman Filter
6 11 (22.45%) DevOps
7 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (18.37%) Analytics
9 8 (16.33%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (14.29%) CI/CD
10 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
10 7 (14.29%) ETL
10 7 (14.29%) Zero Trust
11 6 (12.24%) Cost Optimisation
12 5 (10.20%) Data Engineering
12 5 (10.20%) FinOps
12 5 (10.20%) Identity Management
12 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 4 (8.16%) High Availability
13 4 (8.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) Bicep
2 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.20%) SQL
4 3 (6.12%) Python
5 2 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.04%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) SC Cleared
1 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.37%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.16%) Degree
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.12%) CCNP
4 3 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.08%) VCAP
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.04%) CCDP
6 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) GDPR
1 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.04%) NCSC
3 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.16%) Docker
3 4 (8.16%) VMware NSX
3 4 (8.16%) vSphere
4 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (73.47%) Terraform
2 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.16%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.08%) FortiGate
5 2 (4.08%) PingFederate
6 1 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.04%) Grafana
6 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 16 (32.65%) CheckPoint
2 16 (32.65%) Infoblox
2 16 (32.65%) Palo Alto
3 6 (12.24%) VMware
4 4 (8.16%) Databricks
5 3 (6.12%) Oracle
6 2 (4.08%) Atempo
6 2 (4.08%) F5
6 2 (4.08%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.08%) Informatica
6 2 (4.08%) Mellanox
6 2 (4.08%) NetApp
6 2 (4.08%) SAP
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco
7 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds