Azure ExpressRoute Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 330 437
Rank change year-on-year +41 +107 +146
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 16 11 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.074% 0.067%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 9
10th Percentile - £422 £360
25th Percentile £388 £519 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +21.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £488 £594 £688
90th Percentile £564 £644 £761
UK median daily rate £413 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -21.43% +5.00% -7.41%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,981 5,400 9,408
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.79% 36.56% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 3,885 7,001
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 88 134
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.19 £17.43 £21.48
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -48.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.06 £69.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £72.06 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure ExpressRoute
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure ExpressRoute as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure ExpressRoute trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Azure ExpressRoute daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure ExpressRoute over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Azure ExpressRoute daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Collibra
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) VPN
2 11 (68.75%) Firewall
3 9 (56.25%) DNS
4 7 (43.75%) NGFW
5 3 (18.75%) WAN
6 2 (12.50%) Network Security
7 1 (6.25%) BGP
7 1 (6.25%) LAN
7 1 (6.25%) MPLS
7 1 (6.25%) OSPF
7 1 (6.25%) Skype
7 1 (6.25%) SNMP
7 1 (6.25%) SSL
7 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (6.25%) VoIP
7 1 (6.25%) VPLS
7 1 (6.25%) VSAN
7 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
2 1 (6.25%) GIS
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) Network Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) Network Support
3 7 (43.75%) Network Support Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) Support Engineer
4 5 (31.25%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) ADO
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Anti-Spyware
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) SCADA
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (56.25%) Migration
3 8 (50.00%) Agile
4 7 (43.75%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
6 3 (18.75%) Privileged Identity Management
6 3 (18.75%) RBAC
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (6.25%) Data Privacy
8 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
8 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (6.25%) Threat Detection
8 1 (6.25%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Bicep
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CCNA
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (6.25%) Docker
4 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 7 (43.75%) CheckPoint
2 7 (43.75%) Infoblox
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (18.75%) VMware
5 2 (12.50%) Databricks
6 1 (6.25%) Atempo
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco
6 1 (6.25%) F5
6 1 (6.25%) Informatica
6 1 (6.25%) Mellanox
6 1 (6.25%) Meraki
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle
6 1 (6.25%) SAP
6 1 (6.25%) Ubiquiti