Azure ExpressRoute Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure ExpressRoute over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 365 444
Rank change year-on-year +26 +79 +124
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 34 21 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.13% 0.089%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 14
10th Percentile - £383 £359
25th Percentile £388 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £475 £604 £585
90th Percentile £625 £614 £635
England median daily rate £450 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.30%
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 5,819 6,591 9,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.05% 40.72% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 4,779 6,949
10th Percentile £337 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 47 62
10th Percentile £22.95 £20.30 £16.61
25th Percentile £24.83 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -52.00% +35.54%
75th Percentile £46.00 £39.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £72.68 £60.90 £90.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £32.31
% change year-on-year +9.24% -26.34% +50.28%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute in London.

Daily rate trend for Azure ExpressRoute in London

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute in London over the 6 months to 15 August 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 15 August 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 +7 9 £425 -28.27% 2
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 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (26.47%) Entra ID
4 8 (23.53%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (23.53%) IaaS
5 7 (20.59%) AWS
6 6 (17.65%) PaaS
6 6 (17.65%) Serverless
7 5 (14.71%) GCP
7 5 (14.71%) SaaS
8 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.82%) GitHub
9 2 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (2.94%) Azure App Service
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (94.12%) VPN
2 29 (85.29%) Firewall
3 21 (61.76%) DNS
4 17 (50.00%) NGFW
5 8 (23.53%) WAN
6 4 (11.76%) VSAN
7 2 (5.88%) DHCP
7 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
7 2 (5.88%) VLAN
8 1 (2.94%) Internet
8 1 (2.94%) MPLS
8 1 (2.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (14.71%) Marketing
2 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) French Language
3 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (61.76%) Azure Engineer
2 17 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 17 (50.00%) Network Support
2 17 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 17 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 10 (29.41%) Architect
4 6 (17.65%) Azure Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.88%) VMware Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Data Centre Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (2.94%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) ADO
2 5 (14.71%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (50.00%) Anti-Spyware
2 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Replication
5 1 (2.94%) Clustering
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
1 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Infrastructure as Code
1 26 (76.47%) Migration
2 22 (64.71%) Agile
3 17 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
4 10 (29.41%) DevOps
5 9 (26.47%) RBAC
6 8 (23.53%) Analytics
7 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 6 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (17.65%) Zero Trust
8 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
8 5 (14.71%) ETL
8 5 (14.71%) FinOps
9 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
9 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (11.76%) Validation
10 3 (8.82%) High Availability
10 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Bicep
2 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) Bash
3 2 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Azure Certification
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) CCNP
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.94%) CCDP
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Postgraduate
5 1 (2.94%) VCAP
5 1 (2.94%) VCDX
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) Docker
3 4 (11.76%) VMware NSX
3 4 (11.76%) vSphere
4 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (79.41%) Terraform
2 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
5 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 17 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 17 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.65%) VMware
4 4 (11.76%) NetApp
5 2 (5.88%) Databricks
6 1 (2.94%) Atempo
6 1 (2.94%) Brocade
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.94%) F5
6 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.94%) Mellanox
6 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds