AWS Direct Connect
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Direct Connect skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 877 957 1168
Rank change year-on-year +80 +211 -304
Permanent jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 19 13 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.012% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.054% 0.029% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 17 13 49
10th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £121,500 £108,000 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,288 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +30.58% -6.54% -10.83%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS Direct Connect in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for AWS Direct Connect in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +117 17 £82,500 +26.92% 4
London +137 13 £83,750 -11.84% 4
Work from Home +93 7 £57,500 +12.20% 2
UK excluding London +15 6 £65,288 +30.58%
North of England +49 2 £60,000 +17.07%
North East - 2 £60,000 -
South East - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £70,576 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Route 53
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) Firewall
2 12 (63.16%) BGP
2 12 (63.16%) LAN
2 12 (63.16%) OSPF
2 12 (63.16%) WAN
3 11 (57.89%) VPN
4 10 (52.63%) DMVPN
4 10 (52.63%) EIGRP
4 10 (52.63%) Network Security
5 7 (36.84%) DHCP
5 7 (36.84%) DNS
5 7 (36.84%) SD-WAN
5 7 (36.84%) SSL
5 7 (36.84%) VXLAN
5 7 (36.84%) Wireless
6 5 (26.32%) DWDM
6 5 (26.32%) HTTP
6 5 (26.32%) HTTPS
6 5 (26.32%) IGRP
6 5 (26.32%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Spinnaker
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Publishing
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Electronics
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Network Security Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Security Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Network Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Systems Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Systems Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) 802.1X
2 5 (26.32%) HTML
2 5 (26.32%) XML
2 5 (26.32%) XMPP
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Data Centre
2 10 (52.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Molecular Biology
3 2 (10.53%) PKI
3 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Unix
3 2 (10.53%) Android
3 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) Network Management
2 7 (36.84%) Roadmaps
3 5 (26.32%) Load Balancing
3 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 5 (26.32%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 5 (26.32%) Open Source
3 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (26.32%) Technology Roadmap
3 5 (26.32%) Two-Factor Authentication
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Commercialisation
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.53%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (52.63%) CCNA
3 7 (36.84%) CCNP
4 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.53%) CCIE
5 2 (10.53%) CCIP
6 1 (5.26%) CCDP
6 1 (5.26%) CCNP Voice
6 1 (5.26%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Progress Chef
1 5 (26.32%) Puppet
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Istio
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Cisco
2 5 (26.32%) Arista
2 5 (26.32%) CheckPoint
2 5 (26.32%) Fortinet
2 5 (26.32%) Google
2 5 (26.32%) Juniper
2 5 (26.32%) Tufin