AWS Direct Connect
UK > UK excluding London
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 12 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | 378 | 433 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | +55 | +55 |
| Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect | 0 | 8 | 10 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London | - | 0.039% | 0.043% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | - | 0.15% | 0.13% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £431 | £532 |
| 25th Percentile | - | £473 | £535 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | £553 | £540 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | +2.31% | +6.40% |
| 75th Percentile | - | £605 | £545 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £608 | £548 |
| UK median daily rate | £400 | £575 | £530 |
| % change year-on-year | -30.43% | +8.49% | -1.85% |
All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 4,080 | 5,290 | 7,758 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London | 31.77% | 25.83% | 33.21% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 2,872 | 3,756 | 5,727 |
| 10th Percentile | £235 | £213 | £250 |
| 25th Percentile | £385 | £370 | £406 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £475 | £488 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -2.56% | -2.50% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £575 | £588 | £600 |
| 90th Percentile | £650 | £675 | £688 |
| UK median daily rate | £518 | £525 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | -1.43% | -4.55% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 156 | 260 | 232 |
| 10th Percentile | £14.99 | £14.00 | £15.00 |
| 25th Percentile | £16.90 | £15.00 | £16.44 |
| Median hourly rate | £21.34 | £17.71 | £25.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +20.50% | -29.18% | +25.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £33.10 | £26.50 | £64.63 |
| 90th Percentile | £70.00 | £65.75 | £75.00 |
| UK median hourly rate | £27.50 | £21.37 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +28.69% | -38.94% | +56.25% |
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.
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.