AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in Coventry

AWS Direct Connect
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry citing AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	48	32	-
Rank change year-on-year	-16	-	-
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect	3	1	0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry	1.02%	0.58%	-
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.85%	1.22%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	2	1	0
10^th Percentile	£460	-	-
25^th Percentile	£466	£513	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£478	£525	-
Median % change year-on-year	-9.05%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£489	£538	-
90^th Percentile	£496	-	-
West Midlands median daily rate	£468	£325	-
% change year-on-year	+44.00%	-	-

All Cloud Computing Skills
Coventry

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 citing cloud computing skills in Coventry.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	162	82	32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry	55.29%	47.40%	35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	112	50	20
10^th Percentile	£283	£263	£302
25^th Percentile	£400	£305	£431
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£448	£419	£475
Median % change year-on-year	+6.87%	-11.84%	+5.56%
75^th Percentile	£489	£529	£500
90^th Percentile	£579	£600	£569
West Midlands median daily rate	£475	£500	£500
% change year-on-year	-5.00%	-	+8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	3	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	-
Median hourly rate	£19.48	£27.21	-
Median % change year-on-year	-28.41%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£21.18	-	-
90^th Percentile	£21.75	-	-
West Midlands median hourly rate	£21.50	£30.00	£33.93
% change year-on-year	-28.33%	-11.58%	+83.41%

AWS Direct Connect Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

AWS Direct Connect Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry

For the 6 months to 4 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AWS Direct Connect also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Coventry region citing AWS Direct Connect.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Ansible	100.0%	3
1	AWS	100.0%	3
1	Azure	100.0%	3
1	Azure ExpressRoute	100.0%	3
1	BGP	100.0%	3
1	Cisco	100.0%	3
1	Firewall	100.0%	3
1	Fortinet	100.0%	3
1	High Availability	100.0%	3
1	MPLS	100.0%	3
1	Network Security	100.0%	3
1	Network Segmentation	100.0%	3
1	OSPF	100.0%	3
1	Palo Alto	100.0%	3
1	Python	100.0%	3
1	Stakeholder Management	100.0%	3
1	Terraform	100.0%	3
1	VLAN	100.0%	3
1	VPN	100.0%	3
1	WAN	100.0%	3
1	Zero Trust	100.0%	3
22	Azure Sentinel	66.7%	2
22	CCIE	66.7%	2
22	CCNP	66.7%	2
22	CheckPoint	66.7%	2
22	Cisco Certification	66.7%	2
22	Cisco Firepower	66.7%	2
22	Cloud Security	66.7%	2
22	CrowdStrike	66.7%	2
22	Cyber Essentials	66.7%	2

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	100.0%	3
1	Azure	100.0%	3
1	Azure ExpressRoute	100.0%	3
4	Azure Sentinel	66.7%	2
4	Virtual Private Cloud	66.7%	2