Azure ExpressRoute Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 129 121 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 4 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.17% 0.24% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.80% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.82% - -
75th Percentile £713 £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 671 622 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 28.80% 29.45% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 415 677
10th Percentile £259 £250 £229
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £700
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 33
10th Percentile - £13.10 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.83 £14.93
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +29.17% -63.64%
75th Percentile £47.41 £68.75 £33.00
90th Percentile £70.09 £70.00 £78.00
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 West

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

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in the South West

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Azure ExpressRoute
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire - 3 - - 2
Bristol - 1 £675 -
Azure ExpressRoute
England

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Log Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) RBAC
1 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (75.00%) CISM
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
1 3 (75.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Brocade
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (25.00%) VMware