Azure ExpressRoute Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It covers permanent 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 223 229 204
Rank change year-on-year +6 -25 +130
Permanent jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 4 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.084% 0.043% 0.096%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,750 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £100,000 £55,175
Median % change year-on-year -46.50% +81.24% -11.72%
75th Percentile £54,250 - £67,070
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £95,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -36.84% +45.37% +8.02%

All Cloud Skills
North West

Azure ExpressRoute falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,435 2,021 1,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.05% 28.64% 42.25%
Number of salaries quoted 893 1,148 1,468
10th Percentile £28,300 £32,500 £30,949
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £84,827
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% -2.45%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in the North West

Azure ExpressRoute
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure ExpressRoute

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute within the North West 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +23 3 £53,500 -46.50%
Merseyside - 1 - -
Azure ExpressRoute
England

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) B2B
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bicep
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki