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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 528 614
Rank change year-on-year +90 +86 +85
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 47 14 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.038% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.52% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 4 20
10th Percentile - £455 £358
25th Percentile £388 £492 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -8.70% +6.48%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £659
90th Percentile £575 - £728
UK median daily rate £425 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -19.05% -8.70% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +68 38 £400 -23.81% 11
South West +51 8 £425 - 5
North of England - 2 £450 - 7
North West - 2 £450 - 3
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 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (12.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 46 (97.87%) Azure
2 12 (25.53%) Entra ID
3 10 (21.28%) Azure Storage
3 10 (21.28%) SaaS
4 9 (19.15%) Azure App Service
5 7 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (12.77%) OneDrive
7 5 (10.64%) AWS
7 5 (10.64%) Serverless
8 4 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (8.51%) GCP
8 4 (8.51%) IaaS
8 4 (8.51%) PaaS
9 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.26%) GitHub
10 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (78.72%) Firewall
2 28 (59.57%) VPN
3 18 (38.30%) DNS
4 16 (34.04%) NGFW
5 7 (14.89%) WAN
6 6 (12.77%) Skype
7 5 (10.64%) Network Security
8 3 (6.38%) BGP
8 3 (6.38%) LAN
8 3 (6.38%) Wireless
9 2 (4.26%) Internet
9 2 (4.26%) VLAN
10 1 (2.13%) BIG-IP
10 1 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (2.13%) MPLS
10 1 (2.13%) NetScaler
10 1 (2.13%) OSPF
10 1 (2.13%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
1 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (21.28%) Finance
2 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Legal
5 4 (8.51%) Marketing
6 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (42.55%) Network Engineer
3 16 (34.04%) Network Support
3 16 (34.04%) Network Support Engineer
3 16 (34.04%) Support Engineer
4 14 (29.79%) Architect
5 12 (25.53%) Azure Architect
6 6 (12.77%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Senior
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) VMware Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Cisco Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Infrastructure Architect
10 1 (2.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) ADO
2 14 (29.79%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.13%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Anti-Spyware
2 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.26%) Clustering
3 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) NHS
4 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (65.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 26 (55.32%) Migration
3 21 (44.68%) Agile
4 17 (36.17%) Kalman Filter
5 15 (31.91%) RBAC
6 10 (21.28%) Cloud Security
6 10 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (19.15%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (14.89%) DevOps
9 6 (12.77%) B2B
9 6 (12.77%) Data Loss Prevention
9 6 (12.77%) E-Discovery
10 5 (10.64%) Analytics
11 4 (8.51%) CI/CD
11 4 (8.51%) Cost Optimisation
11 4 (8.51%) Data Engineering
11 4 (8.51%) ETL
11 4 (8.51%) FinOps
11 4 (8.51%) High Availability
11 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) Bicep
2 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.38%) Python
4 1 (2.13%) C
4 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
1 11 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) CCNP
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.26%) VCAP
4 2 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.13%) CCNA
5 1 (2.13%) CCSA
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) GDPR
1 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.38%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (70.21%) Terraform
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.38%) PingFederate
4 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (4.26%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.13%) Ansible
6 1 (2.13%) Grafana
6 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) CheckPoint
2 17 (36.17%) Infoblox
2 17 (36.17%) Palo Alto
3 15 (31.91%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.38%) Cisco
4 3 (6.38%) F5
4 3 (6.38%) SolarWinds
4 3 (6.38%) VMware
5 2 (4.26%) Arista
5 2 (4.26%) Atempo
5 2 (4.26%) Databricks
5 2 (4.26%) Forcepoint
5 2 (4.26%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.26%) Mellanox
5 2 (4.26%) Meraki
6 1 (2.13%) Citrix
6 1 (2.13%) ForeScout
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle