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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 340 358
Rank change year-on-year -72 +18 +80
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 36 24 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.41% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 19
10th Percentile £450 £388 £371
25th Percentile £463 £394 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £593
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -24.05% +12.86%
75th Percentile £644 £475 £650
90th Percentile £654 £700 £704
England median daily rate £556 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +23.56% -10.00% +5.26%
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 8,236 5,809 6,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.89% 43.46% 41.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,660 3,958 4,674
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 92 45
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £30.25 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -1.11% -23.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.10
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -20 4 £515 +26.46% 4
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) GitHub
3 13 (36.11%) Azure Monitor
4 12 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (30.56%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (16.67%) AWS
6 6 (16.67%) Serverless
7 5 (13.89%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (11.11%) Azure AKS
8 4 (11.11%) PaaS
9 3 (8.33%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (8.33%) Azure Functions
9 3 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (8.33%) Azure Stack
9 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (5.56%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 28 (77.78%) VPN
2 24 (66.67%) Firewall
3 11 (30.56%) WAN
4 10 (27.78%) Network Security
5 9 (25.00%) BGP
5 9 (25.00%) OSPF
5 9 (25.00%) VLAN
6 7 (19.44%) SD-WAN
6 7 (19.44%) Wireless
7 6 (16.67%) DNS
7 6 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 6 (16.67%) IPsec
8 4 (11.11%) VSAN
9 3 (8.33%) LAN
9 3 (8.33%) MPLS
10 2 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (5.56%) Internet
11 1 (2.78%) EIGRP
11 1 (2.78%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
1 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (27.78%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Retail
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Banking
4 3 (8.33%) Local Government
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 13 (36.11%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Architect
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Designer
5 3 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) IT Support
5 3 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Network Designer
5 3 (8.33%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Network Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Operations Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (58.33%) Terraform
2 3 (8.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.78%) Flask
3 1 (2.78%) LangChain
3 1 (2.78%) LangGraph
3 1 (2.78%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
3 1 (2.78%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.33%) Clustering
4 3 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (8.33%) Replication
5 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) VMS
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (8.33%) SUSE
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Zero Trust
2 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 14 (38.89%) DevOps
2 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (33.33%) Migration
3 12 (33.33%) RBAC
4 8 (22.22%) High Availability
4 8 (22.22%) Validation
5 7 (19.44%) Cloud Security
5 7 (19.44%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (19.44%) Project Delivery
5 7 (19.44%) Runbook
5 7 (19.44%) Server Management
6 6 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
6 6 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (13.89%) Agile
7 5 (13.89%) Business Continuity
7 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) PowerShell
3 6 (16.67%) Bicep
4 4 (11.11%) Bash
4 4 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (2.78%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) CCNP
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
1 4 (11.11%) NIST
2 3 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) NCSC
3 1 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (8.33%) Firmware
4 3 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (8.33%) vSphere
5 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Ansible
2 5 (13.89%) FortiGate
2 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 3 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (8.33%) VxRail
5 1 (2.78%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 13 (36.11%) Cisco
3 12 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 9 (25.00%) Zscaler
5 8 (22.22%) Fortinet
6 7 (19.44%) Juniper
7 6 (16.67%) F5
8 4 (11.11%) VMware
9 3 (8.33%) Dell
10 1 (2.78%) Aruba
10 1 (2.78%) Foundry
10 1 (2.78%) Meraki
10 1 (2.78%) Murex
10 1 (2.78%) OpenAI