AWS Direct Connect Contracts in England

AWS Direct Connect
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Direct Connect over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 547 625
Rank change year-on-year +59 +78 +82
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 8 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.031% 0.016% 0.023%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.083% 0.050% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile £381 £446 £418
25th Percentile - £519 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £584 £585
Median % change year-on-year -31.48% -0.21% +8.33%
75th Percentile £475 £608 £588
90th Percentile £594 £633 £609
UK median daily rate £400 £593 £558
% change year-on-year -32.49% +6.28% +3.24%

All Cloud Skills
England

AWS Direct Connect falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,590 12,039 17,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.59% 32.42% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,480 8,596 12,581
10th Percentile £311 £306 £321
25th Percentile £413 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 328 289
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +52.81%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS Direct Connect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Direct Connect in England

AWS Direct Connect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Direct Connect in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Direct Connect in England

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Direct Connect in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Direct Connect in England

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Direct Connect within the England region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +55 4 £400 -34.02% 25
North of England +9 2 £500 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
East of England - 2 £388 -
AWS Direct Connect
UK

AWS Direct Connect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) JBoss
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (25.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 4 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (37.50%) BGP
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) OSPF
4 2 (25.00%) SSL
4 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (25.00%) VLAN
5 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
5 1 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (12.50%) Junos
5 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
5 1 (12.50%) MPLS
5 1 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (12.50%) SNMP
5 1 (12.50%) VXLAN
5 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (12.50%) DocumentDB
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Akka
2 1 (12.50%) gRPC
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (12.50%) Play Framework
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (12.50%) CentOS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
4 3 (37.50%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (25.00%) DDoS Mitigation
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) Release Management
5 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) CCIE
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Kustomize
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (25.00%) Puppet
4 1 (12.50%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (12.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (25.00%) Huawei
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Actifio
2 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Mellanox
2 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
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