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

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 546 651
Rank change year-on-year +11 +105 +119
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 16 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.046% 0.027%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.14% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 12
10th Percentile £333 £405 £457
25th Percentile £400 £516 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £584 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% +4.71% -10.80%
75th Percentile £688 £607 £586
90th Percentile £710 £623 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -15.61% +7.73% -

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 12,285 13,073 18,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.06% 33.74% 36.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,203 9,111 13,551
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 250 338
10th Percentile £15.21 £14.16 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.76 £24.51 £34.90
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% -29.77% +62.31%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.56 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £70.00 £78.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £21.37 £25.25
% change year-on-year -11.70% -15.37% +31.20%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Direct Connect over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Direct Connect in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Top 12 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 17 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
England +29 16 £535 -8.35% 5
UK excluding London +2 11 £500 -15.61% 3
Work from Home +25 6 £675 +12.97% 2
London +21 5 £675 +11.34% 4
North of England -8 5 £543 +35.63%
West Midlands -4 3 £325 -
Midlands -6 3 £325 -
North West -6 2 £543 +35.63%
East of England - 2 £388 -
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
South West +27 1 £675 +22.73% 1
North East - 1 £600 -

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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (81.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 9 (56.25%) Azure
4 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (37.50%) Serverless
5 5 (31.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (31.25%) AWS CloudTrail
5 5 (31.25%) AWS KMS
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (25.00%) IaaS
6 4 (25.00%) PaaS
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (18.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (18.75%) GitHub
7 3 (18.75%) SaaS
8 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) DNS
1 9 (56.25%) Firewall
2 7 (43.75%) VPN
3 6 (37.50%) DHCP
4 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
5 4 (25.00%) Network Security
5 4 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 4 (25.00%) WAN
6 3 (18.75%) BGP
7 2 (12.50%) MPLS
7 2 (12.50%) OSPF
7 2 (12.50%) SSL
7 2 (12.50%) VLAN
8 1 (6.25%) Ethernet
8 1 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (6.25%) Internet
8 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (6.25%) Junos
8 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
8 1 (6.25%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (6.25%) DocumentDB
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Administrator
2 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Network Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Centre Architect
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Network Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Akka
2 1 (6.25%) gRPC
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) Play Framework
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (31.25%) High Availability
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Zero Trust
6 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
6 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
6 3 (18.75%) Key Management
6 3 (18.75%) Low Latency
6 3 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (18.75%) Observability
6 3 (18.75%) Workflow
7 2 (12.50%) Database Security
7 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CCIE
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
1 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 5 (31.25%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 2 (12.50%) Kustomize
4 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (12.50%) Puppet
5 1 (6.25%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (6.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) AppDynamics
1 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Brocade
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
2 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 2 (12.50%) Huawei
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.25%) Juniper
3 1 (6.25%) Mellanox
3 1 (6.25%) NVIDIA
3 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds