Azure ExpressRoute Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 - 171
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.12% - 0.024%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% - 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £544 - -
England median daily rate £525 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +5.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,491 1,310 1,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.91% 33.33% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,598 934 897
10th Percentile £306 £282 £275
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -1.68% -7.32%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 30 53
10th Percentile £18.28 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £12.82 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +126.09% +79.02% -35.41%
75th Percentile £71.13 £51.16 £22.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £67.40
England median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure ExpressRoute relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure ExpressRoute

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure ExpressRoute in the North of England

Azure ExpressRoute
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
North West - 8 £463 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Azure ExpressRoute
England

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) IaaS
3 3 (33.33%) PaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
5 1 (11.11%) Azure App Service
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
5 1 (11.11%) OCI
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 6 (66.67%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) BGP
4 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 2 (22.22%) LAN
4 2 (22.22%) OSPF
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (11.11%) DHCP
5 1 (11.11%) IPv6
5 1 (11.11%) MPLS
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security
5 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) tcpdump
5 1 (11.11%) VLAN
5 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
5 1 (11.11%) Wireless
5 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Military
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 4 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Network Design
4 3 (33.33%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) AI
5 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) FinOps
5 2 (22.22%) High Availability
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
5 2 (22.22%) RBAC
5 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCNP
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CCIE
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) JNCIA
3 1 (11.11%) JNCIS
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (11.11%) CASB
4 1 (11.11%) Podman
4 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Aruba
3 1 (11.11%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki
3 1 (11.11%) New Relic
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) VMware