Azure ExpressRoute Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Azure ExpressRoute skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure ExpressRoute over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 442 582
Rank change year-on-year +113 +140 -137
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 8 25 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.053% 0.098% 0.096%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.25% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 29
10th Percentile £510 £360 £363
25th Percentile £525 £361 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +3.45%
75th Percentile £575 £734 £630
90th Percentile £590 £778 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% +8.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure ExpressRoute is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,467 10,106 18,481
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.09% 39.52% 41.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 7,421 13,809
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 129 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.82 £21.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +96.36% -29.49%
75th Percentile £46.88 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.20 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%

Azure ExpressRoute
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure ExpressRoute as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure ExpressRoute trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure ExpressRoute.

Azure ExpressRoute daily rate 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (50.00%) AWS
4 4 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (25.00%) IaaS
5 2 (25.00%) PaaS
6 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 4 (50.00%) Cost Control
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 4 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
2 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
2 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) VMware