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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 433 520
Rank change year-on-year -98 +87 +67
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 59 46 20
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.18% 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.49% 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% +2.44%
75th Percentile £624 £475 £575
90th Percentile £653 £575 £614
UK median daily rate £550 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +33.33% -21.43% +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 15,086 9,377 12,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.70% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,221 6,374 8,650
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 233 339
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +16.98% -36.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 19 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 19 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 -82 24 £525 +31.25% 8
South West -14 14 £600 +37.14% 1
South East - 7 £675 -
North West -33 5 £425 -5.56%
Midlands -55 5 £500 +11.11% 1
West Midlands -57 5 £500 - 1
North of England -65 5 £425 -5.56%
East of England - 3 £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 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.08%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 58 (98.31%) Azure
2 23 (38.98%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (33.90%) Entra ID
4 18 (30.51%) Azure Sentinel
5 17 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (22.03%) Azure AKS
6 13 (22.03%) GitHub
6 13 (22.03%) Serverless
7 12 (20.34%) AWS
8 10 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (15.25%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (11.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (11.86%) Azure Functions
11 6 (10.17%) Azure Storage
11 6 (10.17%) IaaS
11 6 (10.17%) PaaS
12 5 (8.47%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (8.47%) GCP
12 5 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (8.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 37 (62.71%) VPN
2 34 (57.63%) Firewall
3 22 (37.29%) WAN
4 16 (27.12%) Network Security
5 15 (25.42%) DNS
6 12 (20.34%) BGP
7 10 (16.95%) SD-WAN
8 8 (13.56%) VLAN
9 6 (10.17%) LAN
9 6 (10.17%) OSPF
9 6 (10.17%) Wireless
10 4 (6.78%) IPsec
11 3 (5.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 3 (5.08%) VSAN
12 2 (3.39%) Internet
12 2 (3.39%) MPLS
12 2 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
13 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
13 1 (1.69%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (8.47%) Data Lake
3 4 (6.78%) Delta Lake
3 4 (6.78%) Power BI
4 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) AppScan
1 1 (1.69%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.69%) Git
1 1 (1.69%) GitLab
1 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.69%) Metasploit
1 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Local Government
4 3 (5.08%) Retail
5 2 (3.39%) Law
5 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Architect
2 15 (25.42%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) Network Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (16.95%) Senior
6 9 (15.25%) Azure Architect
7 8 (13.56%) Consultant
7 8 (13.56%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (10.17%) Azure Consultant
8 6 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (8.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Senior Architect
10 4 (6.78%) Technical Architect
11 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
11 3 (5.08%) Migration Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 3 (5.08%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.08%) Kafka
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (16.95%) Data Centre
3 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
4 5 (8.47%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.78%) SCADA
6 3 (5.08%) Clustering
6 3 (5.08%) IoT
6 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (5.08%) Replication
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Windows
2 5 (8.47%) VMS
3 4 (6.78%) Linux
4 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.08%) SUSE
5 1 (1.69%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.07%) Infrastructure as Code
1 26 (44.07%) RBAC
2 24 (40.68%) DevOps
3 23 (38.98%) CI/CD
4 22 (37.29%) Analytics
5 19 (32.20%) Log Analytics
6 16 (27.12%) Zero Trust
7 15 (25.42%) Validation
8 12 (20.34%) Cloud Security
8 12 (20.34%) Migration
8 12 (20.34%) Roadmaps
9 10 (16.95%) Architectural Patterns
10 9 (15.25%) Cost Optimisation
10 9 (15.25%) High Availability
10 9 (15.25%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (15.25%) Runbook
11 8 (13.56%) SIEM
12 7 (11.86%) Incident Response
13 6 (10.17%) Knowledge Transfer
13 6 (10.17%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) Bicep
2 11 (18.64%) SQL
3 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
3 7 (11.86%) Python
4 1 (1.69%) Bash
4 1 (1.69%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 21 (35.59%) Azure Certification
2 15 (25.42%) Security Cleared
3 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
4 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (10.17%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (10.17%) CISM
5 6 (10.17%) CISSP
6 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared
6 5 (8.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
7 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.78%) CCNP
8 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.39%) CCSP
8 2 (3.39%) Degree
9 1 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.69%) CCNA
9 1 (1.69%) CRISC
9 1 (1.69%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.69%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (20.34%) NIST
3 10 (16.95%) GDPR
4 5 (8.47%) NIST 800
5 4 (6.78%) NCSC
6 3 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
7 2 (3.39%) QA
7 2 (3.39%) SOC 2
8 1 (1.69%) COBIT
8 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Active Directory
1 9 (15.25%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (8.47%) Firmware
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (5.08%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.08%) vSphere
5 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (61.02%) Terraform
2 10 (16.95%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.25%) FortiGate
4 8 (13.56%) Ansible
5 3 (5.08%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.08%) vCenter Server
5 3 (5.08%) VxRail
6 1 (1.69%) CASB
6 1 (1.69%) Grafana
6 1 (1.69%) Nessus
6 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 28 (47.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.34%) Zscaler
3 10 (16.95%) Cisco
4 7 (11.86%) Palo Alto
5 6 (10.17%) Juniper
6 5 (8.47%) IBM
6 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
7 4 (6.78%) Databricks
8 3 (5.08%) Aruba
8 3 (5.08%) Dell
8 3 (5.08%) F5
8 3 (5.08%) Fortinet
8 3 (5.08%) Informatica
8 3 (5.08%) Meraki
8 3 (5.08%) Oracle
8 3 (5.08%) SAP
8 3 (5.08%) Virgin Media
8 3 (5.08%) VMware
9 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.69%) Google