AWS Direct Connect Contracts in England

AWS Direct Connect
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AWS Direct Connect skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Direct Connect over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 634 728
Rank change year-on-year +96 +94 -119
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 10 22 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.044% 0.087%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.085% 0.12% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 26
10th Percentile £456 - £466
25th Percentile £505 £406 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £413 £540
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -23.61% +8.00%
75th Percentile £605 £530 £631
90th Percentile £614 £602 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +8.49% -1.85% +8.00%

All Cloud Skills
England

AWS Direct Connect is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,829 18,252 27,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.91% 36.54% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 13,349 20,158
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 309 345
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £61.64 £78.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
North West +27 3 £475 -
North of England +26 3 £475 -10.38%
London +105 2 £606 -6.73% 3
South East +22 2 £595 -
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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (70.00%) Azure
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Route 53
5 4 (40.00%) Serverless
6 3 (30.00%) GCP
7 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
1 5 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (40.00%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (30.00%) DHCP
3 3 (30.00%) DNS
3 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) GitLab
2 4 (40.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Migration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LDAP
1 4 (40.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Kanban
3 3 (30.00%) Coaching
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Open Source
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Network Design
5 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Google