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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 471 488
Rank change year-on-year -89 +17 +83
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 69 38 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.36% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 20 23
10th Percentile £444 £388 £401
25th Percentile £478 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.89% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £622 £609 £614
90th Percentile £650 £701 £701
UK median daily rate £556 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +23.56% -12.20% +2.50%
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 16,045 10,434 11,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.58% 37.50% 34.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,714 7,046 7,784
10th Percentile £320 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 259 186
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £19.96
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%
75th Percentile £69.96 £45.14 £60.95
90th Percentile £82.43 £71.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -14.29%

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 11 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 11 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 -66 35 £550 +25.71% 23
North of England - 12 £500 - 2
South West -40 9 £600 -11.11%
North West - 7 £500 - 1
Midlands -46 6 £500 +11.11% 1
South East -57 5 £615 +2.49% 3
Yorkshire - 5 - -
West Midlands -46 3 £500 -
East Midlands -13 2 £475 +5.56% 1
East of England - 2 £503 -
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 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 67 (97.10%) Azure
2 25 (36.23%) GitHub
3 24 (34.78%) Azure Monitor
4 22 (31.88%) Entra ID
5 16 (23.19%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (23.19%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (20.29%) AWS
7 13 (18.84%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (18.84%) Serverless
8 9 (13.04%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (11.59%) AWS Direct Connect
9 8 (11.59%) Azure AKS
9 8 (11.59%) Azure Functions
10 7 (10.14%) Azure Storage
10 7 (10.14%) PaaS
11 6 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (7.25%) GCP
12 5 (7.25%) IaaS
12 5 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (5.80%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (63.77%) Firewall
2 43 (62.32%) VPN
3 26 (37.68%) DNS
4 23 (33.33%) WAN
5 20 (28.99%) BGP
6 19 (27.54%) Network Security
7 13 (18.84%) OSPF
7 13 (18.84%) VLAN
8 10 (14.49%) SD-WAN
9 9 (13.04%) Wireless
10 8 (11.59%) IPsec
11 7 (10.14%) DHCP
11 7 (10.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (8.70%) TCP/IP
13 5 (7.25%) LAN
14 4 (5.80%) MPLS
14 4 (5.80%) SSH
14 4 (5.80%) VSAN
15 3 (4.35%) VXLAN
16 2 (2.90%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (7.25%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.35%) Power BI
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) GitLab
2 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Finance
3 6 (8.70%) Retail
4 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.80%) Local Government
6 3 (4.35%) Military
7 2 (2.90%) Banking
7 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.90%) Legal
7 2 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (34.78%) Network Engineer
2 15 (21.74%) Azure Engineer
2 15 (21.74%) Senior
3 12 (17.39%) Architect
4 11 (15.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Consultant
5 7 (10.14%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.70%) Azure Consultant
7 4 (5.80%) Azure Architect
7 4 (5.80%) Design Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Network Design Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Designer
8 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (65.22%) Terraform
2 9 (13.04%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.90%) Kafka
3 2 (2.90%) YAML
4 1 (1.45%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.45%) Flask
4 1 (1.45%) JSON
4 1 (1.45%) LangChain
4 1 (1.45%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.45%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (1.45%) PySpark
4 1 (1.45%) REST
4 1 (1.45%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 22 (31.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (18.84%) Data Centre
3 12 (17.39%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.80%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (4.35%) ARM Cortex
6 3 (4.35%) Clustering
6 3 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.35%) Replication
6 3 (4.35%) SCADA
7 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.90%) IoT
7 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.45%) CMDB
8 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.45%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Windows
2 10 (14.49%) Linux
3 6 (8.70%) VMS
4 5 (7.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.35%) SUSE
6 2 (2.90%) Android
6 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (53.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (40.58%) DevOps
3 27 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 26 (37.68%) RBAC
5 22 (31.88%) Zero Trust
6 19 (27.54%) Migration
6 19 (27.54%) Validation
7 17 (24.64%) Analytics
7 17 (24.64%) High Availability
8 15 (21.74%) Cloud Security
8 15 (21.74%) Log Analytics
9 13 (18.84%) Cost Optimisation
9 13 (18.84%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (17.39%) Observability
10 12 (17.39%) Roadmaps
10 12 (17.39%) Runbook
11 11 (15.94%) Incident Response
12 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (14.49%) Network Virtualisation
12 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) PowerShell
1 20 (28.99%) Python
2 19 (27.54%) Bicep
3 12 (17.39%) Bash
4 11 (15.94%) SQL
5 1 (1.45%) C
5 1 (1.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (23.19%) Azure Certification
2 12 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 9 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (10.14%) CCNP
5 6 (8.70%) Degree
5 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.90%) CCIE
7 2 (2.90%) CCSP
7 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.45%) CCNA
8 1 (1.45%) CISM
8 1 (1.45%) CISSP
8 1 (1.45%) CRISC
8 1 (1.45%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.45%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) GDPR
1 8 (11.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.70%) NIST
3 3 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (4.35%) QA
4 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.90%) NCSC
4 2 (2.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (20.29%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.80%) Docker
4 4 (5.80%) Firmware
4 4 (5.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (5.80%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.35%) vSphere
6 2 (2.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (24.64%) Ansible
2 10 (14.49%) FortiGate
2 10 (14.49%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.80%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.35%) SCCM
4 3 (4.35%) VxRail
5 1 (1.45%) CASB
5 1 (1.45%) Cilium
5 1 (1.45%) Control-M
5 1 (1.45%) Podman
5 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (55.07%) Microsoft
2 18 (26.09%) Cisco
3 16 (23.19%) Palo Alto
4 15 (21.74%) Zscaler
5 11 (15.94%) Juniper
6 10 (14.49%) Fortinet
7 9 (13.04%) F5
8 5 (7.25%) VMware
9 3 (4.35%) Aruba
9 3 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (4.35%) Dell
9 3 (4.35%) Google
9 3 (4.35%) Oracle
10 2 (2.90%) Databricks
10 2 (2.90%) Informatica
10 2 (2.90%) Meraki
10 2 (2.90%) SAP
10 2 (2.90%) Splunk
11 1 (1.45%) Murex
11 1 (1.45%) Red Hat