AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in the East of England

AWS Direct Connect
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.063% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -26.92%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 353 273 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.23% 23.99% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 160 223
10th Percentile £211 £213 £181
25th Percentile £353 £306 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £581 £555
90th Percentile £703 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 12 31
10th Percentile £6.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.25 £21.46 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.58% +19.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £49.13 £55.00 £44.38
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.38 £77.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -11.67% +29.09% +3.29%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in the East of England

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS Direct Connect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £600 -
AWS Direct Connect
England

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Sumo Logic
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CloudEndure