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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 441 528
Rank change year-on-year -115 +87 +68
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 58 48 21
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.19% 0.056%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.50% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 25 11
10th Percentile £421 - £375
25th Percentile £478 £388 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.30% -21.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £624 £475 £575
90th Percentile £650 £575 £614
UK median daily rate £550 £419 £525
% change year-on-year +31.34% -20.24% +5.00%
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 15,208 9,531 12,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.81% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,287 6,462 8,623
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -2.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 241 337
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year +33.93% +26.41% -36.71%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -79 25 £563 +40.63% 6
South West -27 11 £600 +37.14% 2
South East -53 6 £675 - 1
North of England -62 6 £425 -5.56%
North West -40 5 £425 -5.56%
West Midlands -55 5 £500 - 3
Midlands -61 5 £500 +11.11% 4
East of England - 3 £503 -
Yorkshire - 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 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 57 (98.28%) Azure
2 20 (34.48%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (34.48%) Entra ID
3 14 (24.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 14 (24.14%) GitHub
4 13 (22.41%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (22.41%) Serverless
5 12 (20.69%) AWS
6 11 (18.97%) Azure AKS
7 10 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (15.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (12.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (12.07%) Azure Functions
9 7 (12.07%) Azure Storage
10 6 (10.34%) GCP
11 5 (8.62%) AWS Direct Connect
11 5 (8.62%) IaaS
11 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (8.62%) PaaS
12 4 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 37 (63.79%) VPN
2 35 (60.34%) Firewall
3 22 (37.93%) WAN
4 17 (29.31%) DNS
5 16 (27.59%) Network Security
6 13 (22.41%) BGP
7 10 (17.24%) SD-WAN
8 9 (15.52%) VLAN
9 7 (12.07%) OSPF
9 7 (12.07%) Wireless
10 6 (10.34%) LAN
11 5 (8.62%) IPsec
12 4 (6.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 3 (5.17%) VSAN
14 2 (3.45%) Internet
14 2 (3.45%) MPLS
14 2 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
15 1 (1.72%) EIGRP
15 1 (1.72%) SSL
15 1 (1.72%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
3 4 (6.90%) Delta Lake
3 4 (6.90%) Power BI
4 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) AppScan
1 1 (1.72%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.72%) Git
1 1 (1.72%) GitLab
1 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.72%) Metasploit
1 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Finance
3 4 (6.90%) Retail
4 3 (5.17%) Local Government
5 2 (3.45%) Law
5 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.72%) Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Architect
2 14 (24.14%) Network Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Senior
6 9 (15.52%) Azure Architect
7 8 (13.79%) Consultant
7 8 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (10.34%) Azure Consultant
9 4 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Senior Architect
9 4 (6.90%) Technical Architect
10 3 (5.17%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (5.17%) Cloud Network Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) Data Architect
10 3 (5.17%) Migration Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.17%) Kafka
3 1 (1.72%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.72%) PySpark
3 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (18.97%) Data Centre
3 10 (17.24%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.90%) SCADA
5 3 (5.17%) Clustering
5 3 (5.17%) IoT
5 3 (5.17%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.17%) Replication
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) VMS
3 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.17%) SUSE
4 1 (1.72%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (39.66%) CI/CD
2 23 (39.66%) RBAC
3 21 (36.21%) DevOps
4 19 (32.76%) Analytics
5 17 (29.31%) Zero Trust
6 16 (27.59%) Log Analytics
6 16 (27.59%) Validation
7 13 (22.41%) Migration
8 12 (20.69%) Roadmaps
9 11 (18.97%) Runbook
10 10 (17.24%) Architectural Patterns
10 10 (17.24%) Cloud Security
10 10 (17.24%) High Availability
11 9 (15.52%) Cost Optimisation
12 7 (12.07%) Incident Response
12 7 (12.07%) Network Design
13 6 (10.34%) Design Patterns
13 6 (10.34%) Knowledge Transfer
13 6 (10.34%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) Bicep
2 11 (18.97%) SQL
3 8 (13.79%) Python
4 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.72%) Bash
5 1 (1.72%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 17 (29.31%) Azure Certification
2 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) CCNP
7 3 (5.17%) CISM
7 3 (5.17%) CISSP
8 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.45%) CCSP
8 2 (3.45%) Degree
8 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.72%) CCNA
9 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.72%) CRISC
9 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (17.24%) GDPR
3 9 (15.52%) NIST
4 3 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.17%) NCSC
5 2 (3.45%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.45%) QA
5 2 (3.45%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.72%) COBIT
6 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (15.52%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.62%) Firmware
4 4 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (5.17%) vSphere
6 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (60.34%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) FortiGate
3 9 (15.52%) Ansible
4 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.17%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.17%) vCenter Server
5 3 (5.17%) VxRail
6 1 (1.72%) CASB
6 1 (1.72%) Grafana
6 1 (1.72%) Nessus
6 1 (1.72%) Podman
6 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (43.10%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.41%) Zscaler
3 11 (18.97%) Cisco
4 8 (13.79%) Palo Alto
5 7 (12.07%) Juniper
6 4 (6.90%) Databricks
6 4 (6.90%) F5
6 4 (6.90%) Fortinet
7 3 (5.17%) Aruba
7 3 (5.17%) Dell
7 3 (5.17%) Informatica
7 3 (5.17%) Meraki
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle
7 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.17%) SAP
7 3 (5.17%) Virgin Media
7 3 (5.17%) VMware
8 2 (3.45%) Google
8 2 (3.45%) IBM
9 1 (1.72%) CyberArk