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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 338 406
Rank change year-on-year -18 +68 +110
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 16 25 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.18% 0.016%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.44% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 1
10th Percentile £480 £410 -
25th Percentile £500 £512 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +80.25%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £588
90th Percentile £660 £704 -
England median daily rate £525 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -24.37%

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 6,429 5,703 6,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.27% 41.35% 37.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,416 3,795 5,117
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 46 73
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.82
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.71 £29.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -8.32% +20.37%
75th Percentile £54.88 £47.72 £53.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £64.38 £62.00
England median hourly rate £30.25 £27.50 £23.23
% change year-on-year +10.00% +18.39% -3.22%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -9 1 £500 -13.04% 2
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 6 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (31.25%) IaaS
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) PaaS
5 3 (18.75%) AWS
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Stack
6 2 (12.50%) GCP
6 2 (12.50%) SaaS
7 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
7 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (6.25%) Serverless
7 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) VPN
2 11 (68.75%) Firewall
3 6 (37.50%) Network Security
3 6 (37.50%) WAN
4 4 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (18.75%) DNS
5 3 (18.75%) VLAN
6 2 (12.50%) BGP
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (12.50%) OSPF
6 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (12.50%) Wireless
7 1 (6.25%) 802.11
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (6.25%) DHCP
7 1 (6.25%) DMVPN
7 1 (6.25%) Internet
7 1 (6.25%) MPLS
7 1 (6.25%) NGN
7 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
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%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Operations Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (18.75%) IoT
4 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (6.25%) Life Science
5 1 (6.25%) NHS
5 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
5 1 (6.25%) PKI
5 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) VMS
4 1 (6.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
2 6 (37.50%) Migration
2 6 (37.50%) RBAC
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (25.00%) Log Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
5 3 (18.75%) Cost Management
5 3 (18.75%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (18.75%) FinOps
5 3 (18.75%) High Availability
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 3 (18.75%) Network Architecture
5 3 (18.75%) Observability
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) Bicep
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (12.50%) CCIE
4 2 (12.50%) CCNP
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (6.25%) CCNA
5 1 (6.25%) CISSP
5 1 (6.25%) CWNA
5 1 (6.25%) GIAC
5 1 (6.25%) GSEC
5 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 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (6.25%) Docker
4 1 (6.25%) Firmware
4 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
4 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco
3 3 (18.75%) Meraki
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) AirMagnet
5 1 (6.25%) Aruba
5 1 (6.25%) Brocade
5 1 (6.25%) Databricks
5 1 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (6.25%) F5
5 1 (6.25%) NetApp
5 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) SonicWALL