AWS Direct Connect Contracts in London

AWS Direct Connect
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 389 483
Rank change year-on-year +38 +94 +89
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 2 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.011% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.038% 0.030% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £568 £403
25th Percentile - £577 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £606 £525
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +15.48% -11.58%
75th Percentile - £639 £594
90th Percentile - £649 £628
England median daily rate £400 £544 £413
% change year-on-year -26.44% +31.82% -23.61%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Direct Connect in London

AWS Direct Connect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Direct Connect in London

AWS Direct Connect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) Sentry
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 1 (50.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Akka
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
1 1 (50.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Ranger
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Actifio
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat