AWS Direct Connect Contracts

AWS Direct Connect
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 518 568 687
Rank change year-on-year +50 +119 +103
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 2 14 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.032% 0.052%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.018% 0.100% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 10
10th Percentile - £463 £403
25th Percentile - £505 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £431
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +33.33% -20.14%
75th Percentile - £603 £620
90th Percentile - £609 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate - £553 £530
% change year-on-year - +4.25% +4.43%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Direct Connect in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Direct Connect in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Top 2 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +49 2 £400 -26.44% 14
London +38 2 £400 -34.02% 12

AWS Direct Connect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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