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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 314 378
Rank change year-on-year -82 +64 +114
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 16 32 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.096% 0.25% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.60% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 5
10th Percentile £466 - £463
25th Percentile £500 £388 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £568 £573 £538
90th Percentile £618 £575 £568
England median daily rate £525 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% -12.50%

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 7,301 5,355 6,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.84% 42.29% 37.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,005 3,736 4,965
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 48 79
10th Percentile £18.10 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.54 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +1.64% -15.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.38 £64.40
England median hourly rate £39.75 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.25% +27.68% -16.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -13 3 £500 -9.09% 3
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 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (18.75%) Azure AKS
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (18.75%) IaaS
4 3 (18.75%) PaaS
5 2 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Stack
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) SaaS
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (6.25%) Azure App Service
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) VPN
2 12 (75.00%) Firewall
3 8 (50.00%) Network Security
4 7 (43.75%) WAN
5 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
6 4 (25.00%) VLAN
7 3 (18.75%) DNS
7 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (12.50%) BGP
8 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (12.50%) Internet
8 2 (12.50%) OSPF
8 2 (12.50%) VSAN
8 2 (12.50%) Wireless
9 1 (6.25%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (6.25%) DKIM
9 1 (6.25%) DMARC
9 1 (6.25%) NGFW
9 1 (6.25%) NGN
9 1 (6.25%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Electronics
3 1 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Operations Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Network Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure 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%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) IoT
3 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Replication
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Clustering
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (6.25%) NHS
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) VMS
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) High Availability
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (25.00%) RBAC
2 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
3 3 (18.75%) Cost Management
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (18.75%) FinOps
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (18.75%) Service Management
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) CCIE
3 2 (12.50%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.25%) CCNA
4 1 (6.25%) CISSP
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) CWNA
4 1 (6.25%) GIAC
4 1 (6.25%) GSEC
4 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Firmware
3 2 (12.50%) vSphere
4 1 (6.25%) Docker
4 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Cisco
3 3 (18.75%) Meraki
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Aruba
4 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.25%) AirMagnet
5 1 (6.25%) Databricks
5 1 (6.25%) Dell
5 1 (6.25%) F5
5 1 (6.25%) Juniper
5 1 (6.25%) NetApp
5 1 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) SonicWALL
5 1 (6.25%) Zscaler