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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 319 384
Rank change year-on-year -83 +65 +88
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 21 37 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.29% 0.045%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.68% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 4
10th Percentile £468 - £455
25th Percentile £493 £388 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £625 £575 -
England median daily rate £500 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% -8.70%
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 7,584 5,403 6,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.29% 42.41% 37.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,226 3,755 4,939
10th Percentile £350 £357 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 54 76
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.36 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%
75th Percentile £52.96 £53.75 £40.66
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £61.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.97
% change year-on-year +70.13% +26.13% -28.92%

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 April 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 April 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 -17 4 £550 +0.27% 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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Azure AKS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Stack
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) AWS
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 2 (9.52%) Serverless
6 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (4.76%) Azure App Service
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.76%) IaaS
6 1 (4.76%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (90.48%) VPN
2 16 (76.19%) Firewall
3 10 (47.62%) Network Security
4 9 (42.86%) WAN
5 8 (38.10%) SD-WAN
6 7 (33.33%) VLAN
7 4 (19.05%) DNS
7 4 (19.05%) VSAN
8 3 (14.29%) BGP
8 3 (14.29%) Internet
8 3 (14.29%) OSPF
8 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (14.29%) Wireless
9 2 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (9.52%) IPsec
9 2 (9.52%) LAN
10 1 (4.76%) 802.11
10 1 (4.76%) MPLS
10 1 (4.76%) NGN
10 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Law
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Retail
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Electronics
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
1 6 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Designer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Network Designer
4 2 (9.52%) Operations Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
3 4 (19.05%) Replication
4 3 (14.29%) Clustering
4 3 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 1 (4.76%) IoT
6 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) VMS
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (14.29%) SUSE
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) High Availability
3 5 (23.81%) Cloud Security
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (23.81%) Validation
3 5 (23.81%) Zero Trust
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) RBAC
4 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (14.29%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) CCIE
3 2 (9.52%) CCNP
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) CWNA
4 1 (4.76%) GIAC
4 1 (4.76%) GSEC
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (19.05%) vSphere
3 3 (14.29%) Firmware
3 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) FortiGate
3 3 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (14.29%) vCenter Server
3 3 (14.29%) VxRail
4 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) Cisco
3 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
3 4 (19.05%) Juniper
3 4 (19.05%) VMware
3 4 (19.05%) Zscaler
4 3 (14.29%) Aruba
4 3 (14.29%) Dell
4 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 2 (9.52%) F5
5 2 (9.52%) Meraki
6 1 (4.76%) AirMagnet
6 1 (4.76%) Databricks
6 1 (4.76%) NetApp
6 1 (4.76%) SAP
6 1 (4.76%) SonicWALL