Azure ExpressRoute Jobs

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Azure ExpressRoute skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure ExpressRoute over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 670 852 875
Rank change year-on-year +182 +23 +276
Permanent jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 39 60 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.058% 0.090%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.17% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18 56 67
10th Percentile £51,000 - £37,899
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £91,313 £88,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,875 £113,750 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +23.66% +3.33% -7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,281 35,941 42,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.80% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,069 26,912 27,490
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,225 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure ExpressRoute
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure ExpressRoute as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Salary trend for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 May 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
England +135 34 £60,000 -14.29% 157
UK excluding London +194 26 £57,500 +23.66% 161
Work from Home +135 21 £55,000 -35.29% 82
London +95 11 £84,500 -0.59% 15
South East +91 6 £57,500 -11.54% 42
Midlands +78 6 - - 35
South West +105 5 £60,000 - 19
North of England +53 4 - - 33
East Midlands - 4 - - 13
West Midlands +46 2 - - 19
North West +9 2 - - 14
Yorkshire - 2 - - 15
East of England - 2 £50,000 - 24
Scotland - 2 £55,000 - 8
Isle of Man - 1 - -

Azure ExpressRoute
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (69.23%) Entra ID
3 26 (66.67%) PaaS
4 25 (64.10%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (61.54%) IaaS
6 22 (56.41%) SaaS
7 21 (53.85%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (48.72%) AWS
9 17 (43.59%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (41.03%) Azure AI
10 16 (41.03%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (41.03%) Power Automate
10 16 (41.03%) Power Platform
11 9 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (12.82%) GitHub
12 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
14 2 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
15 1 (2.56%) Azure App Service
15 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 34 (87.18%) VPN
2 31 (79.49%) Firewall
3 25 (64.10%) WAN
4 24 (61.54%) SD-WAN
5 17 (43.59%) DNS
6 6 (15.38%) LAN
7 5 (12.82%) Network Security
8 4 (10.26%) MPLS
9 3 (7.69%) Unified Communications
9 3 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (5.13%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (5.13%) Wireless
11 1 (2.56%) BGP
11 1 (2.56%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (2.56%) EIGRP
11 1 (2.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (2.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (2.56%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (46.15%) Data Lake
2 16 (41.03%) MySQL
2 16 (41.03%) Power BI
3 4 (10.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (41.03%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Finance
2 2 (5.13%) Legal
3 1 (2.56%) Front Office
3 1 (2.56%) Law
3 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Architect
2 17 (43.59%) Cloud Architect
3 10 (25.64%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Senior
5 7 (17.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Architect
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Administrator
9 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (41.03%) Data Centre
1 16 (41.03%) NHS
2 4 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
3 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.26%) VMS
5 3 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) DevOps
2 25 (64.10%) ITIL
2 25 (64.10%) Network Virtualisation
3 23 (58.97%) CI/CD
3 23 (58.97%) Migration
4 22 (56.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (53.85%) Service Management
6 20 (51.28%) Analytics
6 20 (51.28%) Log Analytics
6 20 (51.28%) RBAC
7 17 (43.59%) Artificial Intelligence
8 16 (41.03%) Agile
8 16 (41.03%) API Management
8 16 (41.03%) B2B
8 16 (41.03%) Data Integration
8 16 (41.03%) Project Management
8 16 (41.03%) Roadmaps
8 16 (41.03%) TOGAF
8 16 (41.03%) Waterfall
8 16 (41.03%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 21 (53.85%) SQL
3 17 (43.59%) Bicep
4 1 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 16 (41.03%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.56%) CCIE
3 1 (2.56%) CCNP
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (48.72%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (7.69%) vSphere
5 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (35.90%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Meraki
2 16 (41.03%) Databricks
3 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 11 (28.21%) VMware
5 6 (15.38%) Citrix
6 5 (12.82%) Palo Alto
6 5 (12.82%) Red Hat
7 4 (10.26%) SolarWinds
8 3 (7.69%) CheckPoint
8 3 (7.69%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (7.69%) Zscaler
9 2 (5.13%) Cisco
9 2 (5.13%) SAP
10 1 (2.56%) Aruba
10 1 (2.56%) F5
10 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.56%) Google
10 1 (2.56%) Riverbed