AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in Central London

AWS Direct Connect
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 - 151
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.053% - 0.064%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £621 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 - £585
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.74%
75th Percentile £664 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £675 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 754 937 1,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.32% 39.87% 40.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 620 867
10th Percentile £329 £393 £325
25th Percentile £434 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £526 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.32% -1.79% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 8
10th Percentile £18.63 £29.40 £15.58
25th Percentile £24.50 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £55.60 £49.38 £40.69
90th Percentile £67.89 £75.25 £49.88
London median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -17.81% -20.99% +15.71%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Direct Connect relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS Direct Connect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
City of London - 1 £643 - 1
AWS Direct Connect
London

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation