Azure ExpressRoute Contracts

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 563 666
Rank change year-on-year +92 +103 +93
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 49 19 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.044% 0.087%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 6 22
10th Percentile - £465 £356
25th Percentile £388 £503 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -8.70% +6.48%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £641
90th Percentile £575 £569 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -29.17% +20.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Hourly rate trend for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +90 47 £425 -19.05% 38
London +68 38 £400 -23.81% 11
Work from Home +52 19 £400 -27.27% 37
UK excluding London +65 8 £425 -29.17% 34
South West +51 8 £425 - 4
North West - 2 £450 - 3
North of England - 2 £450 - 7

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (12.24%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 48 (97.96%) Azure
2 12 (24.49%) Entra ID
3 10 (20.41%) Azure Storage
3 10 (20.41%) SaaS
4 9 (18.37%) Azure App Service
5 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (12.24%) OneDrive
7 5 (10.20%) AWS
7 5 (10.20%) Serverless
8 4 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (8.16%) GCP
8 4 (8.16%) IaaS
8 4 (8.16%) PaaS
9 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.08%) GitHub
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (79.59%) Firewall
2 29 (59.18%) VPN
3 20 (40.82%) DNS
4 16 (32.65%) NGFW
5 8 (16.33%) WAN
6 6 (12.24%) Network Security
6 6 (12.24%) Skype
7 4 (8.16%) BGP
7 4 (8.16%) LAN
7 4 (8.16%) Wireless
8 2 (4.08%) Internet
8 2 (4.08%) MPLS
8 2 (4.08%) OSPF
8 2 (4.08%) VLAN
9 1 (2.04%) BIG-IP
9 1 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (2.04%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (2.04%) NetScaler
9 1 (2.04%) VPLS
9 1 (2.04%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (20.41%) Finance
2 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Legal
5 4 (8.16%) Marketing
6 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (46.94%) Azure Engineer
2 21 (42.86%) Network Engineer
3 16 (32.65%) Network Support
3 16 (32.65%) Network Support Engineer
3 16 (32.65%) Support Engineer
4 14 (28.57%) Architect
5 12 (24.49%) Azure Architect
6 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior
8 3 (6.12%) VMware Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Cisco Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.65%) ADO
2 14 (28.57%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.12%) .NET
4 1 (2.04%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.65%) Anti-Spyware
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Clustering
2 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Windows
2 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (63.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 26 (53.06%) Migration
3 21 (42.86%) Agile
4 17 (34.69%) Kalman Filter
5 15 (30.61%) RBAC
6 10 (20.41%) Cloud Security
6 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (18.37%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (14.29%) DevOps
9 6 (12.24%) B2B
9 6 (12.24%) Data Loss Prevention
9 6 (12.24%) E-Discovery
10 5 (10.20%) Analytics
11 4 (8.16%) CI/CD
11 4 (8.16%) Data Engineering
11 4 (8.16%) ETL
11 4 (8.16%) FinOps
11 4 (8.16%) High Availability
11 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (8.16%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) Bicep
2 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.12%) Python
4 1 (2.04%) C
4 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
1 12 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.24%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.16%) Degree
4 3 (6.12%) CCNP
4 3 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.08%) CCNA
5 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.08%) VCAP
5 2 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.04%) CCSA
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) GDPR
1 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.12%) Docker
3 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.08%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (67.35%) Terraform
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.12%) FortiGate
4 3 (6.12%) PingFederate
4 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.04%) Ansible
5 1 (2.04%) Grafana
5 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) CheckPoint
1 18 (36.73%) Palo Alto
2 17 (34.69%) Infoblox
3 15 (30.61%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.20%) VMware
5 4 (8.16%) Cisco
5 4 (8.16%) F5
6 3 (6.12%) Atempo
6 3 (6.12%) Databricks
6 3 (6.12%) Mellanox
6 3 (6.12%) Meraki
6 3 (6.12%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.08%) Arista
7 2 (4.08%) Forcepoint
7 2 (4.08%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.04%) Citrix
8 1 (2.04%) ForeScout
8 1 (2.04%) Oracle
8 1 (2.04%) Ubiquiti