AWS Direct Connect Contracts in the UK excluding London

AWS Direct Connect
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 434 498
Rank change year-on-year +45 +64 -67
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 8 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.042% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £473 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £530 £508
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% +4.43% -16.46%
75th Percentile £605 - £540
90th Percentile £608 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £431 £540
% change year-on-year +33.33% -20.14% +8.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,425 7,981 9,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.14% 33.26% 32.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,831 5,919 7,266
10th Percentile £213 £240 £206
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 226 290
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.62 £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -5.06%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.88 £25.00
90th Percentile £61.51 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Direct Connect in the UK excluding London

AWS Direct Connect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Direct Connect in the UK excluding London

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Direct Connect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Direct Connect in the UK excluding London

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +29 3 £475 -10.38% 1
North West +28 3 £475 - 1
Scotland - 3 £600 -
South East +19 2 £595 - 1
AWS Direct Connect
UK

AWS Direct Connect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (37.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Route 53
5 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
1 3 (37.50%) VLAN
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Operations
1 3 (37.50%) Cost Control
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (37.50%) Planning and Forecasting
1 3 (37.50%) Supplier Management
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Kanban
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) VMware