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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 518 585
Rank change year-on-year +53 +67 +133
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 46 28 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.079% 0.092%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.24% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 34
10th Percentile - £383 £378
25th Percentile £388 £417 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £604 £600
90th Percentile £623 £614 £725
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 10,177 11,764 16,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.33% 33.25% 36.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,879 8,377 12,474
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 284 303
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -37.86% +60.70%
75th Percentile £41.84 £49.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £81.59
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.77% -37.14% +55.56%

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 21 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 21 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 +50 37 £400 -23.81% 4
South East +42 4 £600 +41.18% 2
Midlands -5 4 £450 - 3
West Midlands +8 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 45 (97.83%) Azure
2 14 (30.43%) Entra ID
3 12 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (19.57%) Serverless
5 8 (17.39%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (17.39%) IaaS
5 8 (17.39%) PaaS
6 7 (15.22%) AWS
7 6 (13.04%) Azure Storage
7 6 (13.04%) GitHub
8 5 (10.87%) Azure App Service
8 5 (10.87%) GCP
8 5 (10.87%) SaaS
9 4 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (6.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 37 (80.43%) Firewall
1 37 (80.43%) VPN
2 24 (52.17%) DNS
3 17 (36.96%) NGFW
4 8 (17.39%) WAN
5 5 (10.87%) VSAN
6 3 (6.52%) Network Security
7 2 (4.35%) BGP
7 2 (4.35%) DHCP
7 2 (4.35%) VLAN
8 1 (2.17%) Internet
8 1 (2.17%) MPLS
8 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.35%) GIS
3 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.35%) Power BI
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 5 (10.87%) Marketing
1 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) French Language
3 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Legal
3 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (41.30%) Architect
3 18 (39.13%) Network Engineer
4 17 (36.96%) Network Support
4 17 (36.96%) Network Support Engineer
4 17 (36.96%) Support Engineer
5 11 (23.91%) Azure Architect
6 6 (13.04%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) VMware Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Consultant
8 2 (4.35%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.35%) DevOps Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Migration Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) ADO
2 8 (17.39%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (2.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Anti-Spyware
2 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Clustering
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) IoT
4 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Replication
4 2 (4.35%) SCADA
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) NHS
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) VMS
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
1 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (71.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (63.04%) Migration
3 23 (50.00%) Agile
4 18 (39.13%) Kalman Filter
5 15 (32.61%) RBAC
6 12 (26.09%) DevOps
7 10 (21.74%) Analytics
8 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
9 7 (15.22%) ETL
9 7 (15.22%) Zero Trust
10 6 (13.04%) Cost Optimisation
10 6 (13.04%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
11 5 (10.87%) Data Engineering
11 5 (10.87%) FinOps
11 5 (10.87%) High Availability
11 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Bicep
2 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) Python
5 2 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Azure Certification
2 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) CCNP
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) VCAP
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CCDP
6 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.17%) Postgraduate
6 1 (2.17%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.17%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.87%) Docker
3 5 (10.87%) VMware NSX
3 5 (10.87%) vSphere
4 4 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (71.74%) Terraform
2 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.35%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (36.96%) CheckPoint
2 17 (36.96%) Infoblox
2 17 (36.96%) Palo Alto
3 7 (15.22%) VMware
4 5 (10.87%) Databricks
5 4 (8.70%) NetApp
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle
7 2 (4.35%) Atempo
7 2 (4.35%) F5
7 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.35%) Informatica
7 2 (4.35%) Mellanox
7 2 (4.35%) SAP
7 2 (4.35%) Sophos
8 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds