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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 317 392
Rank change year-on-year -86 +75 +64
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 24 38 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.30% 0.085%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.71% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 11
10th Percentile £455 £386 £375
25th Percentile £480 £388 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% -3.45%
75th Percentile £631 £475 £575
90th Percentile £650 £575 £614
England median daily rate £538 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +30.30% -21.43% +2.44%
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 8,029 5,373 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.05% 42.83% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,515 3,647 5,103
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 69 70
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.90 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +20.82% -48.32%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £68.75 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -31.89%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -16 5 £515 -6.36% 1
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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) GitHub
3 8 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (25.00%) Serverless
5 4 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 4 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (12.50%) AWS
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Functions
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Stack
7 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Storage
8 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 20 (83.33%) VPN
2 17 (70.83%) Firewall
3 10 (41.67%) Network Security
4 9 (37.50%) WAN
5 6 (25.00%) DNS
5 6 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 6 (25.00%) VLAN
6 4 (16.67%) Wireless
7 3 (12.50%) BGP
7 3 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (12.50%) IPsec
7 3 (12.50%) LAN
7 3 (12.50%) OSPF
7 3 (12.50%) VSAN
8 2 (8.33%) Internet
8 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (4.17%) Star Schema
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Local Government
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Retail
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Law
3 2 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Architect
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (16.67%) Senior
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Consultant
7 2 (8.33%) Designer
7 2 (8.33%) Network Designer
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Consultant
8 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Cloud Consultant
8 1 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Lead
8 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) Clustering
3 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (12.50%) Replication
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) VMS
2 4 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (12.50%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (12.50%) SUSE
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Zero Trust
2 9 (37.50%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
4 7 (29.17%) RBAC
5 6 (25.00%) Agile
5 6 (25.00%) High Availability
5 6 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (25.00%) Validation
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.83%) Cost Optimisation
6 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
6 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
7 4 (16.67%) Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) API Integration
7 4 (16.67%) API Management
7 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
7 4 (16.67%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.33%) CCNP
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) GDPR
1 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (16.67%) NIST
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (12.50%) Firmware
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 3 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) Cisco
3 7 (29.17%) Zscaler
4 6 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 5 (20.83%) Juniper
6 3 (12.50%) Dell
6 3 (12.50%) F5
6 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 3 (12.50%) VMware
7 2 (8.33%) Aruba
8 1 (4.17%) Databricks
8 1 (4.17%) Meraki