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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 388 462
Rank change year-on-year +20 +74 +121
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.030% 0.019% 0.025%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.069% 0.046% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £453 £568 £438
25th Percentile £531 £577 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £606 £555
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% +9.23% -14.62%
75th Percentile £694 £639 £585
90th Percentile £698 £649 £588
England median daily rate £518 £584 £585
% change year-on-year -11.35% -0.21% -6.40%

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 5,815 6,593 9,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.98% 40.67% 39.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,975 4,777 6,976
10th Percentile £334 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 49 62
10th Percentile £22.95 £20.40 £16.61
25th Percentile £24.83 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -52.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £46.00 £42.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £72.68 £66.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.15 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.66% -25.23% +50.23%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Direct Connect in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Direct Connect in London

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
East London - 1 £675 -
AWS Direct Connect
England

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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Route 53
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Sentry
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Junos
2 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) SNMP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 1 (25.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Akka
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) gRPC
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) ArchiMate
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) JNCIE
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) Mellanox
1 1 (25.00%) NVIDIA