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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 352 407
Rank change year-on-year -10 +55 +162
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 16 29 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.18% 0.058%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.45% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 9
10th Percentile £443 £373 £418
25th Percentile £458 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.70% +12.86% +31.25%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £569
90th Percentile £704 £704 £588
England median daily rate £535 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +7.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
England median hourly rate - £23.80 -

All Cloud 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 5,889 6,477 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.92% 41.16% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,985 4,414 5,914
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £753 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 35 61
10th Percentile £19.17 £22.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -9.68% +21.09%
75th Percentile £45.06 £55.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.38 £72.15 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £27.10
% change year-on-year -29.15% +31.00% +20.44%

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 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
Central London -12 1 £425 -28.27% 2
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 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) Entra ID
3 7 (43.75%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (43.75%) IaaS
4 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) PaaS
5 5 (31.25%) AWS
6 4 (25.00%) SaaS
6 4 (25.00%) Serverless
7 3 (18.75%) GCP
8 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (12.50%) GitHub
9 1 (6.25%) Azure App Service
9 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) VPN
2 12 (75.00%) Firewall
3 6 (37.50%) WAN
4 5 (31.25%) DNS
5 4 (25.00%) VSAN
6 3 (18.75%) DHCP
6 3 (18.75%) VLAN
7 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (12.50%) NGFW
7 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
8 1 (6.25%) BGP
8 1 (6.25%) DKIM
8 1 (6.25%) DMARC
8 1 (6.25%) DMVPN
8 1 (6.25%) Internet
8 1 (6.25%) IPsec
8 1 (6.25%) MPLS
8 1 (6.25%) OSPF
8 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) French Language
2 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Architect
2 7 (43.75%) Azure Architect
3 6 (37.50%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 2 (12.50%) VMware Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Support
5 1 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) ADO
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (31.25%) Data Centre
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) IoT
4 2 (12.50%) Replication
5 1 (6.25%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (6.25%) Life Science
5 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
5 1 (6.25%) PKI
5 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) VMS
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Migration
2 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (50.00%) Analytics
3 8 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (43.75%) DevOps
4 7 (43.75%) RBAC
5 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 5 (31.25%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) High Availability
6 4 (25.00%) Log Analytics
6 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (25.00%) Zero Trust
7 3 (18.75%) Agile
7 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
7 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
7 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) FinOps
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Bicep
2 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) CCNP
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CCDP
5 1 (6.25%) Postgraduate
5 1 (6.25%) VCDX
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (25.00%) Docker
3 4 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 4 (25.00%) vSphere
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (6.25%) Firmware
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) NetApp
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco
5 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.25%) Brocade
6 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
6 1 (6.25%) Databricks
6 1 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (6.25%) F5
6 1 (6.25%) Infoblox
6 1 (6.25%) Meraki
6 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds