AWS Direct Connect Contracts in England

AWS Direct Connect
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AWS Direct Connect skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Direct Connect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 625 706
Rank change year-on-year +103 +81 -91
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 9 15 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.031% 0.090%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.077% 0.085% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 30
10th Percentile £450 - £468
25th Percentile £505 £406 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £431 £540
Median % change year-on-year +18.84% -20.14% +8.00%
75th Percentile £606 £489 £611
90th Percentile £618 £514 £675
UK median daily rate £544 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +2.59% -1.85% +8.00%

All Cloud Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,687 17,571 27,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.09% 36.46% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,435 12,880 19,964
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £742
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 289 332
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.64
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Direct Connect in England

AWS Direct Connect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Direct Connect in England

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Direct Connect in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Direct Connect in England

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +32 3 £475 -10.38%
North West +22 3 £475 -
London +97 2 £606 +34.72%
South East - 2 £595 -
AWS Direct Connect
UK

AWS Direct Connect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 7 (77.78%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Route 53
3 4 (44.44%) Serverless
4 3 (33.33%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 4 (44.44%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (33.33%) DHCP
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (33.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) GitLab
2 4 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Migration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) LDAP
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Private Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Kanban
3 3 (33.33%) Coaching
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Network Design
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Google