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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 629 760
Rank change year-on-year +74 +131 -102
Contract jobs citing Azure ExpressRoute 24 55 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.098% 0.092%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.27% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 34 68
10th Percentile £378 £359 £393
25th Percentile £423 £418 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +4.37%
75th Percentile £575 £609 £650
90th Percentile £598 £743 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 13,976 20,555 33,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.43% 36.46% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,930 14,875 24,662
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 330 390
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%
75th Percentile £42.50 £69.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.12 £69.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
% change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +72 19 £525 +5.00% 10
London +91 14 £525 -3.45% 6
Work from Home +102 11 £575 +21.05% 4
UK excluding London +39 6 £600 +26.32% 5
Scotland +43 3 £600 -
South West +12 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 3 (12.50%) IIS
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (70.83%) Entra ID
3 11 (45.83%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (29.17%) AWS
4 7 (29.17%) IaaS
4 7 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (29.17%) PaaS
5 6 (25.00%) Azure Storage
6 5 (20.83%) Azure App Service
7 4 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (12.50%) Azure Functions
8 3 (12.50%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (12.50%) Nutanix
8 3 (12.50%) Rubrik
8 3 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) VPN
2 13 (54.17%) Firewall
3 12 (50.00%) DNS
4 4 (16.67%) Internet
4 4 (16.67%) IPsec
5 3 (12.50%) DKIM
5 3 (12.50%) DMARC
5 3 (12.50%) Extranet
5 3 (12.50%) HTTP
5 3 (12.50%) HTTPS
5 3 (12.50%) LAN
5 3 (12.50%) NAS
5 3 (12.50%) SAN
5 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (12.50%) Wireless
6 2 (8.33%) Network Security
6 2 (8.33%) WAN
7 1 (4.17%) MPLS
7 1 (4.17%) NGFW
7 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Azure Consultant
1 7 (29.17%) Consultant
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (12.50%) IT Support
4 3 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Support Officer
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Security Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) SAML
1 3 (12.50%) Software Packaging
2 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (25.00%) PKI
3 5 (20.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 3 (12.50%) Fat Client
4 3 (12.50%) Thin Client
4 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
5 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Unix
3 2 (8.33%) VMS
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Network Virtualisation
2 10 (41.67%) Migration
3 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
5 4 (16.67%) Cost Control
5 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
5 4 (16.67%) RBAC
5 4 (16.67%) SIEM
5 4 (16.67%) Supplier Management
5 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 3 (12.50%) Converged Infrastructure
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 3 (12.50%) Security Hardening
6 3 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Bicep
4 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (12.50%) CCIE
2 3 (12.50%) CCNP
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (12.50%) BitLocker
3 3 (12.50%) Docker
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.17%) XenApp
4 1 (4.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 3 (12.50%) SCCM
2 3 (12.50%) SCOM
2 3 (12.50%) SCVMM
2 3 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 4 (16.67%) F5
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) Avaya
4 3 (12.50%) Brocade
4 3 (12.50%) Commvault
4 3 (12.50%) Dell
4 3 (12.50%) EMC
4 3 (12.50%) Equitrac
4 3 (12.50%) Forcepoint
4 3 (12.50%) HP
4 3 (12.50%) Juniper
4 3 (12.50%) Mitel
4 3 (12.50%) MobileIron
4 3 (12.50%) New Relic
4 3 (12.50%) Proofpoint
4 3 (12.50%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) Wyse