Azure ExpressRoute Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 166 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.092% 0.080% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% - -
75th Percentile £631 £438 -
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,355 1,174 1,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.01% 31.28% 29.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 797 1,019
10th Percentile £213 £261 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £669 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 17 34
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.10 £17.47
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £19.81
Median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £29.66
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% -3.91% +48.30%
75th Percentile £48.75 £43.75 £53.21
90th Percentile £92.30 £64.73 £77.44
England median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure ExpressRoute

Azure ExpressRoute
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure ExpressRoute

Azure ExpressRoute
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Thames Valley -12 3 £600 +41.18% 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £600 -
Berkshire -14 1 £650 +52.94% 1
Surrey - 1 - -
Azure ExpressRoute
England

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Migration Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Architect
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (50.00%) Runbook
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Sophos
3 1 (25.00%) VMware