AWS Direct Connect Job Trends in London

AWS Direct Connect
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 434 442
Rank change year-on-year +76 +8 +235
Permanent jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 11 6 11
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.080% 0.038% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.085% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £64,000 £48,425 -
25th Percentile £64,375 £71,938 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £112,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £142,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £79,000 - £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £112,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -37.78% +25.00% +2.86%

All Cloud Computing 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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,764 7,092 8,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.80% 45.29% 47.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,719 4,534 6,998
10th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £43,675
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,662
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Direct Connect relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in London

AWS Direct Connect
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS Direct Connect.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Direct Connect in London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Direct Connect in London

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) SaaS
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (27.27%) Route 53
5 1 (9.09%) Datadog
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) BGP
1 11 (100.00%) VPN
2 8 (72.73%) OSPF
2 8 (72.73%) SD-WAN
2 8 (72.73%) WAN
3 7 (63.64%) Firewall
4 6 (54.55%) IPsec
4 6 (54.55%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (45.45%) MPLS
6 4 (36.36%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (36.36%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (36.36%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (36.36%) LAN
6 4 (36.36%) NetScaler
6 4 (36.36%) NX-OS
6 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
6 4 (36.36%) VXLAN
6 4 (36.36%) WLAN
7 3 (27.27%) EIGRP
7 3 (27.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Law
2 3 (27.27%) Back Office
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Financial Institution
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (27.27%) Retail
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Network Operations Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Data Centre
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
3 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (27.27%) Public Cloud
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team
4 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
4 5 (45.45%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (45.45%) Zero Trust
5 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
5 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 4 (36.36%) Runbook
6 3 (27.27%) API Management
6 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
6 3 (27.27%) High Availability
6 3 (27.27%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 3 (27.27%) Observability
6 3 (27.27%) SOA
6 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Go
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
1 4 (36.36%) CCIE
1 4 (36.36%) CCNP
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) SOC 2
3 3 (27.27%) NIST
3 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
4 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco
2 6 (54.55%) SolarWinds
3 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
3 4 (36.36%) Dynatrace
3 4 (36.36%) Fortinet
3 4 (36.36%) Meraki
3 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
4 2 (18.18%) Arista
4 2 (18.18%) Brocade
5 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.09%) Zscaler