Azure ExpressRoute Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 533 648
Rank change year-on-year -48 +115 -76
Permanent jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 56 24 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.070% 0.048%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.26% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41 6 25
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £46,350
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +20.97% -15.45%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £110,000 - £67,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% -5.93% +12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,083 9,327 17,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.74% 27.10% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,923 6,509 12,030
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,755 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,124 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% -7.18% -1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,751 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure ExpressRoute job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure ExpressRoute
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure ExpressRoute

Azure ExpressRoute
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK excluding London

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. 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
South West -45 20 £110,000 +175.00% 1
Midlands -25 15 £60,000 - 2
South East -17 14 £60,000 +4.35% 3
East of England -18 11 £60,000 +20.00%
East Midlands -23 8 £60,000 -
West Midlands -27 7 £110,000 - 2
Yorkshire -23 2 £65,000 - 4
North of England -52 2 £65,000 - 5
Scotland +15 1 - -
Azure ExpressRoute
UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (75.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 40 (71.43%) IaaS
4 37 (66.07%) Azure AKS
5 30 (53.57%) Azure Storage
6 16 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (25.00%) GitHub
8 13 (23.21%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (21.43%) Azure Functions
9 12 (21.43%) PaaS
9 12 (21.43%) Serverless
10 9 (16.07%) Entra ID
11 5 (8.93%) AWS
12 3 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
14 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
14 1 (1.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (57.14%) DNS
2 26 (46.43%) VPN
3 9 (16.07%) Network Security
4 7 (12.50%) BGP
5 6 (10.71%) Firewall
6 5 (8.93%) WAN
7 4 (7.14%) DHCP
7 4 (7.14%) TCP/IP
8 3 (5.36%) LAN
8 3 (5.36%) OSPF
9 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
9 2 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (1.79%) BIG-IP
10 1 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (1.79%) EIGRP
10 1 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (1.79%) HTTP
10 1 (1.79%) MPLS
10 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (23.21%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
General
1 40 (71.43%) Law
2 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (58.93%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 28 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Analyst
3 12 (21.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 10 (17.86%) Senior
5 7 (12.50%) Architect
5 7 (12.50%) Azure Architect
5 7 (12.50%) Technical Architect
6 6 (10.71%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Podcast
1 12 (21.43%) Public Cloud
1 12 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 9 (16.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Windows
2 12 (21.43%) VMS
3 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (73.21%) Root Cause Analysis
2 40 (71.43%) Agile
3 35 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 31 (55.36%) High Availability
5 28 (50.00%) Load Balancing
6 27 (48.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (39.29%) Cloud Security
8 21 (37.50%) CI/CD
9 19 (33.93%) DevSecOps
10 15 (26.79%) Analytics
10 15 (26.79%) Log Analytics
11 14 (25.00%) DevOps
11 14 (25.00%) Observability
12 13 (23.21%) Computer Science
13 12 (21.43%) AI
13 12 (21.43%) API Management
13 12 (21.43%) Generative AI
13 12 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (21.43%) Scrum
13 12 (21.43%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (76.79%) PowerShell
2 24 (42.86%) Bicep
3 12 (21.43%) Bash
3 12 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 12 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (76.79%) Azure Certification
2 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
4 7 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CCIE
6 1 (1.79%) CCNP
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) Degree
6 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 22 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 14 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (21.43%) vSphere
5 3 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (66.07%) Kubernetes
2 25 (44.64%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (39.29%) VMware
3 12 (21.43%) ScienceLogic
4 4 (7.14%) Cisco
5 2 (3.57%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.79%) Aruba
6 1 (1.79%) F5
6 1 (1.79%) Zscaler