Azure ExpressRoute Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 134 149
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.17% 0.036% 0.063%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £401
25th Percentile £425 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £563
75th Percentile £475 - £659
90th Percentile - - £714
England median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -6.54%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 745 706 1,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.94% 25.21% 34.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 508 805
10th Percentile £275 £200 £209
25th Percentile £380 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -2.11% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £575
90th Percentile £675 £686 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 25
10th Percentile £15.21 £13.93 £13.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £14.19 £14.52
Median hourly rate £21.39 £18.32 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% -8.40% +1.91%
75th Percentile £33.88 £27.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £48.48 £44.72 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.98% -38.57% +60.70%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure ExpressRoute in the Midlands

Azure ExpressRoute
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure ExpressRoute in the Midlands

Azure ExpressRoute
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
West Midlands +1 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
Azure ExpressRoute
England

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Collibra
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (50.00%) GIS
2 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) IoT
1 2 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Informatica
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) SAP