AWS Direct Connect Contracts

AWS Direct Connect
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 688 784
Rank change year-on-year +104 +96 -124
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 14 31 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.052% 0.073%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 35
10th Percentile £463 £403 £465
25th Percentile £505 £406 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £431 £540
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.14% +8.00%
75th Percentile £603 £620 £641
90th Percentile £609 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £530 £508
% change year-on-year +4.25% +4.43% -16.46%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Direct Connect in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Direct Connect in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Direct Connect over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Direct Connect in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Work from Home +123 11 £586 +35.94% 2
England +113 10 £544 +31.82% 4
UK excluding London +63 8 £553 +4.25%
North of England +32 3 £475 -10.38%
North West +17 3 £475 -
Scotland - 3 £600 -
London +93 2 £606 +15.48% 4
South East +27 2 £595 -

AWS Direct Connect
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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (78.57%) Azure
3 9 (64.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
4 5 (35.71%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (28.57%) Route 53
5 4 (28.57%) Serverless
6 3 (21.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
1 5 (35.71%) VPN
2 4 (28.57%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (21.43%) DHCP
3 3 (21.43%) DNS
3 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 3 (21.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) GitLab
2 4 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.14%) Retail
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) LDAP
1 4 (28.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 5 (35.71%) Private Cloud
3 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (28.57%) Cost Control
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) Kanban
2 4 (28.57%) Planning and Forecasting
2 4 (28.57%) Supplier Management
3 3 (21.43%) Coaching
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Open Source
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
1 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
1 4 (28.57%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Google