Azure ExpressRoute Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 536 492 580
Rank change year-on-year -44 +88 +156
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 48 52 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.057%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.42% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 19
10th Percentile £416 £360 £423
25th Percentile £457 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £588
90th Percentile £671 £666 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +45.45% -8.33% -27.86%

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 14,018 12,403 15,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.07% 36.28% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,570 8,250 11,053
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £732 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 172 273
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.19 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.86 £27.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +11.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £58.00
90th Percentile £76.84 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.38% +26.19% +7.69%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Azure ExpressRoute
Top 10 Contract Job 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 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
England -41 37 £525 +5.00% 12
London -13 21 £525 -11.39% 4
Work from Home -6 18 £525 -4.20% 4
UK excluding London -48 15 £600 +45.45% 15
Midlands -43 6 £513 +36.67% 2
West Midlands -32 5 £525 +40.00%
South West -8 4 £675 +58.82% 3
South East -22 4 £600 +41.18% 4
Scotland +3 1 £500 -
East Midlands -21 1 £450 - 2

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 48 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (43.75%) Entra ID
3 16 (33.33%) AWS
4 15 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (22.92%) AWS Direct Connect
7 10 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (20.83%) GCP
8 8 (16.67%) IaaS
9 7 (14.58%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (14.58%) PaaS
10 6 (12.50%) Azure AKS
10 6 (12.50%) Azure App Service
10 6 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (10.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (10.42%) Azure Storage
11 5 (10.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (10.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (91.67%) VPN
2 30 (62.50%) Firewall
3 15 (31.25%) WAN
4 11 (22.92%) DNS
5 10 (20.83%) Network Security
5 10 (20.83%) VLAN
6 9 (18.75%) SD-WAN
7 7 (14.58%) BGP
7 7 (14.58%) DHCP
7 7 (14.58%) MPLS
7 7 (14.58%) OSPF
7 7 (14.58%) VSAN
8 6 (12.50%) Wireless
9 4 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (8.33%) EIGRP
9 4 (8.33%) IPv4
9 4 (8.33%) IPv6
9 4 (8.33%) LAN
9 4 (8.33%) VXLAN
9 4 (8.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (10.42%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
General
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (10.42%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Aerospace
7 2 (4.17%) French Language
7 2 (4.17%) Legal
7 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.08%) Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Electronics
8 1 (2.08%) Marketing
8 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (52.08%) Architect
2 12 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 11 (22.92%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Network Architect
4 8 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (14.58%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Network Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Technical Architect
8 4 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) VMware Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Consultant
9 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Consultant
10 2 (4.17%) Cloud Network Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Data Centre Architect
10 2 (4.17%) DevOps Consultant
10 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Migration Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 3 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.08%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.08%) ADO
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 22 (45.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (43.75%) Data Centre
3 7 (14.58%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.25%) IoT
5 3 (6.25%) Replication
6 1 (2.08%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.08%) Life Science
6 1 (2.08%) NHS
6 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.08%) PKI
6 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) VMS
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (43.75%) Migration
3 18 (37.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 16 (33.33%) Analytics
5 15 (31.25%) RBAC
6 11 (22.92%) CI/CD
6 11 (22.92%) DevOps
7 10 (20.83%) Cloud Security
7 10 (20.83%) ITIL
7 10 (20.83%) Log Analytics
7 10 (20.83%) TOGAF
8 8 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
8 8 (16.67%) Data Protection
8 8 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 8 (16.67%) Zero Trust
9 7 (14.58%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (14.58%) Network Architecture
9 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) Bicep
2 12 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (16.67%) Python
4 6 (12.50%) SQL
5 5 (10.42%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Azure Certification
2 12 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (20.83%) SC Cleared
4 9 (18.75%) CCNP
4 9 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (14.58%) CISSP
5 7 (14.58%) Degree
6 5 (10.42%) CCIE
7 3 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
7 3 (6.25%) CCIE Security
7 3 (6.25%) CCSP
7 3 (6.25%) CISM
7 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 3 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (4.17%) JNCIE
8 2 (4.17%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (14.58%) NIST
3 5 (10.42%) GDPR
4 4 (8.33%) PCI DSS
5 3 (6.25%) NIST 800
6 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (4.17%) NCSC
7 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 1 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (2.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (2.08%) JSP 440
System Software
1 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
2 13 (27.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (22.92%) VMware NSX
4 7 (14.58%) vSphere
5 5 (10.42%) Docker
5 5 (10.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (62.50%) Terraform
2 12 (25.00%) Ansible
3 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.08%) SCCM
6 1 (2.08%) SysTrack
6 1 (2.08%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 14 (29.17%) VMware
3 12 (25.00%) Cisco
4 8 (16.67%) Meraki
5 6 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 6 (12.50%) Palo Alto
6 5 (10.42%) F5
6 5 (10.42%) NetApp
6 5 (10.42%) SolarWinds
7 4 (8.33%) Databricks
8 3 (6.25%) IBM
8 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
9 2 (4.17%) Brocade
9 2 (4.17%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (4.17%) Forcepoint
9 2 (4.17%) Juniper
9 2 (4.17%) Sophos
10 1 (2.08%) CloudEndure
10 1 (2.08%) Mellanox
10 1 (2.08%) SonicWALL