Azure ExpressRoute Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 332 363
Rank change year-on-year -79 +31 +85
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 33 34 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.59% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 13
10th Percentile £450 - £380
25th Percentile £463 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% -
75th Percentile £638 £475 £614
90th Percentile £650 £625 -
England median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate - - £23.80

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,399 5,797 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.65% 43.20% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,741 3,967 4,767
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £651 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 90 49
10th Percentile £19.20 £22.95 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £78.59 £67.95 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -24.24%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure ExpressRoute relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in London

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure ExpressRoute

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute in London over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure ExpressRoute in London

Azure ExpressRoute
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
Central London -23 4 £515 +21.18%
North London - 1 £650 -
Azure ExpressRoute
England

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) GitHub
3 12 (36.36%) Azure Monitor
3 12 (36.36%) Entra ID
4 11 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (30.30%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (18.18%) Serverless
7 4 (12.12%) AWS
7 4 (12.12%) Azure AKS
7 4 (12.12%) PaaS
8 3 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Functions
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Stack
8 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 27 (81.82%) VPN
2 22 (66.67%) Firewall
3 9 (27.27%) Network Security
3 9 (27.27%) VLAN
3 9 (27.27%) WAN
4 7 (21.21%) BGP
4 7 (21.21%) OSPF
4 7 (21.21%) Wireless
5 6 (18.18%) DNS
5 6 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 6 (18.18%) IPsec
6 5 (15.15%) SD-WAN
7 4 (12.12%) VSAN
8 2 (6.06%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (6.06%) LAN
9 1 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (3.03%) Internet
9 1 (3.03%) MPLS
9 1 (3.03%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
General
1 7 (21.21%) Finance
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Retail
3 3 (9.09%) Local Government
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Network Engineer
2 13 (39.39%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Designer
5 3 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Network Designer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (63.64%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (9.09%) Clustering
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (9.09%) Replication
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) VMS
2 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (9.09%) SUSE
2 3 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) DevOps
1 14 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (42.42%) Zero Trust
2 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
3 12 (36.36%) RBAC
4 11 (33.33%) Migration
5 7 (21.21%) Cloud Security
5 7 (21.21%) High Availability
5 7 (21.21%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (21.21%) Project Delivery
5 7 (21.21%) Server Management
5 7 (21.21%) Validation
6 6 (18.18%) Design Patterns
6 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (18.18%) Runbook
7 5 (15.15%) Agile
7 5 (15.15%) Business Continuity
7 5 (15.15%) Cost Optimisation
7 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
7 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 11 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.18%) Bicep
4 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) CCNP
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
1 4 (12.12%) NIST
2 3 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (12.12%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (9.09%) Firmware
4 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.09%) vSphere
5 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Ansible
2 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) FortiGate
3 4 (12.12%) vCenter Server
4 3 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
2 11 (33.33%) Cisco
3 10 (30.30%) Palo Alto
4 9 (27.27%) Zscaler
5 7 (21.21%) Juniper
6 6 (18.18%) F5
6 6 (18.18%) Fortinet
7 4 (12.12%) VMware
8 3 (9.09%) Dell
9 1 (3.03%) Aruba
9 1 (3.03%) Meraki