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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 304 392
Rank change year-on-year -78 +88 +83
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 20 37 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.30% 0.057%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.71% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 7
10th Percentile £463 £386 £378
25th Percentile £478 £388 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £584 £475 £538
90th Percentile £625 £575 £553
England median daily rate £500 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +21.21% -21.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 7,687 5,211 6,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.12% 42.66% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,317 3,580 4,988
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 53 68
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.57 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £53.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -18 5 £515 -6.36% 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Stack
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) VPN
2 15 (75.00%) Firewall
3 10 (50.00%) WAN
4 8 (40.00%) Network Security
5 7 (35.00%) SD-WAN
6 5 (25.00%) VLAN
7 4 (20.00%) DNS
7 4 (20.00%) VSAN
8 3 (15.00%) LAN
8 3 (15.00%) Wireless
9 2 (10.00%) BGP
9 2 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (10.00%) Internet
9 2 (10.00%) IPsec
9 2 (10.00%) OSPF
9 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Law
2 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Designer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Network Designer
5 2 (10.00%) Operations Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (20.00%) Replication
4 3 (15.00%) Clustering
4 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) VMS
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (15.00%) SUSE
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) High Availability
1 6 (30.00%) Migration
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (25.00%) Validation
2 5 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) RBAC
4 3 (15.00%) Remediation Plan
4 3 (15.00%) Server Management
5 2 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (10.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (10.00%) FinOps
5 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (20.00%) vSphere
3 3 (15.00%) Firmware
3 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (15.00%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (15.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (15.00%) VxRail
4 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Cisco
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Zscaler
3 4 (20.00%) Juniper
3 4 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) Dell
5 2 (10.00%) Aruba
5 2 (10.00%) F5
5 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.00%) Databricks
6 1 (5.00%) Meraki
6 1 (5.00%) NetApp