Azure ExpressRoute Contracts

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 660 739
Rank change year-on-year +93 +79 -99
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 20 46 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.080% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.22% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 71
10th Percentile £418 £357 £375
25th Percentile £465 £361 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £669 £650
90th Percentile £563 £745 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,842 21,188 33,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.76% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,830 15,319 24,772
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 340 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.73%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.63
% change year-on-year -29.12% +27.39% -1.88%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure ExpressRoute in the UK

Azure ExpressRoute
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +95 15 £525 -8.70% 11
London +72 9 £525 -12.50% 3
Work from Home +105 8 £550 +10.00% 6
UK excluding London +62 6 £600 +20.00% 9
Scotland +40 3 £600 -
South West +12 3 - - 3

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 2 (10.00%) IIS
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 10 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (30.00%) AWS
4 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (20.00%) IaaS
5 4 (20.00%) PaaS
6 3 (15.00%) Azure App Service
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Storage
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) SaaS
6 3 (15.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) VPN
2 10 (50.00%) DNS
2 10 (50.00%) Firewall
3 4 (20.00%) IPsec
4 3 (15.00%) HTTP
4 3 (15.00%) HTTPS
4 3 (15.00%) Internet
4 3 (15.00%) NAS
4 3 (15.00%) SAN
5 2 (10.00%) DKIM
5 2 (10.00%) DMARC
5 2 (10.00%) Extranet
5 2 (10.00%) LAN
5 2 (10.00%) VSAN
5 2 (10.00%) WAN
5 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.00%) Wireless
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security
6 1 (5.00%) NGFW
6 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Consultant
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Consultant
3 3 (15.00%) Network Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) IT Support
4 2 (10.00%) Support Officer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) SAML
2 2 (10.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (25.00%) PKI
4 4 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (10.00%) Fat Client
6 2 (10.00%) Thin Client
6 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
7 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
3 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (20.00%) Cost Control
4 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
4 4 (20.00%) Supplier Management
5 3 (15.00%) Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (15.00%) RBAC
5 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (10.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Bicep
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (15.00%) CCIE
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (15.00%) Docker
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (10.00%) BitLocker
5 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (5.00%) XenApp
6 1 (5.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) FortiGate
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (10.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (10.00%) SCCM
3 2 (10.00%) SCOM
3 2 (10.00%) SCVMM
3 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco
2 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) Databricks
4 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (15.00%) F5
4 3 (15.00%) New Relic
4 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (10.00%) Avaya
5 2 (10.00%) Commvault
5 2 (10.00%) Dell
5 2 (10.00%) Dell Compellent
5 2 (10.00%) EMC
5 2 (10.00%) Equitrac
5 2 (10.00%) HP
5 2 (10.00%) Juniper
5 2 (10.00%) MobileIron
5 2 (10.00%) Proofpoint