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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 362 431
Rank change year-on-year +24 +69 +129
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 24 26 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.16% 0.064%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.39% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 9
10th Percentile £388 £369 £418
25th Percentile £394 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £584 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.91% +11.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £475 £650 £569
90th Percentile £700 £704 £610
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 5,815 6,660 8,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.29% 41.24% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,955 4,663 6,448
10th Percentile £340 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -1.03%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £782
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 64
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -24.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £69.06
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £88.97
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Azure ExpressRoute as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure ExpressRoute 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -1 4 £407 -30.24%
Azure ExpressRoute
England

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 8 (33.33%) IaaS
4 7 (29.17%) AWS
4 7 (29.17%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (29.17%) PaaS
5 6 (25.00%) Serverless
6 5 (20.83%) GCP
6 5 (20.83%) SaaS
7 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (12.50%) GitHub
8 2 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
9 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
9 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (4.17%) Azure Stack
9 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
9 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 23 (95.83%) VPN
2 18 (75.00%) Firewall
3 10 (41.67%) DNS
4 7 (29.17%) NGFW
4 7 (29.17%) WAN
5 4 (16.67%) VSAN
6 2 (8.33%) DHCP
6 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
6 2 (8.33%) VLAN
7 1 (4.17%) Internet
7 1 (4.17%) MPLS
7 1 (4.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.83%) Marketing
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) French Language
3 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Architect
2 10 (41.67%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) Azure Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Network Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) Network Support
3 7 (29.17%) Network Support Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) Support Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Network Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.33%) VMware Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Data Centre Architect
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) ADO
2 5 (20.83%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Anti-Spyware
2 5 (20.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) Replication
6 1 (4.17%) IoT
6 1 (4.17%) Life Science
6 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
6 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (66.67%) Migration
3 12 (50.00%) Agile
4 11 (45.83%) DevOps
5 10 (41.67%) RBAC
6 9 (37.50%) Analytics
7 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
7 7 (29.17%) Cost Optimisation
7 7 (29.17%) Kalman Filter
7 7 (29.17%) Zero Trust
8 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) ETL
8 5 (20.83%) FinOps
8 5 (20.83%) Network Virtualisation
8 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 4 (16.67%) Validation
10 3 (12.50%) High Availability
10 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Bicep
2 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) CCNP
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) CCDP
5 1 (4.17%) Postgraduate
5 1 (4.17%) VCDX
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.67%) VMware NSX
2 4 (16.67%) vSphere
3 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) Terraform
2 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.33%) Ansible
5 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (29.17%) CheckPoint
2 7 (29.17%) Infoblox
2 7 (29.17%) Palo Alto
3 5 (20.83%) VMware
4 4 (16.67%) NetApp
5 1 (4.17%) Brocade
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) Extreme Networks