AWS Direct Connect Contracts with Work from Home Options

AWS Direct Connect
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 335 444 564
Rank change year-on-year +109 +120 -84
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 10 10 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.041% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.10% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 26
10th Percentile £505 £406 £466
25th Percentile £506 £416 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £601
90th Percentile £628 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £544 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +2.59% -1.85% +8.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,396 9,727 18,246
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.48% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,218 13,626
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £743 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 129 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

AWS Direct Connect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Direct Connect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Direct Connect trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Direct Connect.

AWS Direct Connect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Direct Connect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (30.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Route 53
5 3 (30.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) OpenLDAP
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Migration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) LDAP
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (40.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Control
2 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 4 (40.00%) Supplier Management
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Coaching
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Kanban
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Open Source
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Google