AWS Direct Connect
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Direct Connect skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Direct Connect over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 985 1178
Rank change year-on-year +98 +193 -306
Permanent jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 20 10 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.010% 0.036%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.057% 0.023% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 17 10 44
10th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £54,688 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £66,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -8.28% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £99,375 £90,000
90th Percentile £121,500 £111,000 £99,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,288 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +30.58% -6.54% -10.83%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS Direct Connect is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,219 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 28,539 41,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS Direct Connect in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Direct Connect over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Direct Connect in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Direct Connect within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +98 18 £82,500 +24.06% 3
London +128 13 £83,750 -11.84% 3
Work from Home +81 8 £57,500 +12.20% 1
UK excluding London -7 6 £65,288 +30.58%
North of England +44 2 £60,000 +17.07%
Scotland - 2 £70,576 -
North East - 2 £60,000 -
South East - 2 - -

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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 5 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.00%) Route 53
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (75.00%) Firewall
2 13 (65.00%) WAN
3 12 (60.00%) BGP
3 12 (60.00%) LAN
3 12 (60.00%) OSPF
4 11 (55.00%) VPN
5 10 (50.00%) DMVPN
5 10 (50.00%) EIGRP
5 10 (50.00%) Network Security
6 8 (40.00%) DNS
7 7 (35.00%) DHCP
7 7 (35.00%) SD-WAN
7 7 (35.00%) SSL
7 7 (35.00%) VXLAN
7 7 (35.00%) Wireless
8 5 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
8 5 (25.00%) GLBP
8 5 (25.00%) IPsec
8 5 (25.00%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Publishing
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Electronics
4 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Systems Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Systems Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) 802.1X
2 5 (25.00%) HTML
2 5 (25.00%) XML
2 5 (25.00%) XMPP
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) Molecular Biology
3 2 (10.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) Android
3 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) Network Management
2 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 5 (25.00%) Open Source
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 5 (25.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Preventative Maintenance
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Enablement
6 2 (10.00%) Disruptive Innovation
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (50.00%) CCNA
3 7 (35.00%) CCNP
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.00%) CCIE
5 2 (10.00%) CCIP
6 1 (5.00%) CCDP
6 1 (5.00%) CCNP Voice
6 1 (5.00%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 5 (25.00%) Puppet
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Istio
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Cisco
2 5 (25.00%) Arista
2 5 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 5 (25.00%) Google
2 5 (25.00%) Juniper
2 5 (25.00%) Tufin