Azure ExpressRoute Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 109 117
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +67
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.27% 0.050%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.89% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £750
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -50.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £525 £388 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £535 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +7.00% +5.26% +2.70%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 665 563 707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.81% 29.90% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 369 520
10th Percentile £300 £228 £200
25th Percentile £420 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -4.52%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £595
90th Percentile £700 £688 £689
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £25.82 £16.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £25.84 £17.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +83.41% +12.12%
75th Percentile £34.98 £35.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £40.45 - £19.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Azure ExpressRoute
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Coventry - 2 - - 1
Birmingham -5 1 £500 +33.33%
Azure ExpressRoute
England

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Collibra
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
1 2 (66.67%) GIS
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) IoT
1 2 (66.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Batch Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) Informatica
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) SAP