AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in Leeds

AWS Direct Connect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.43% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £482 - -
25th Percentile £489 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £530 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 330 297 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.81% 45.55% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 209 255
10th Percentile £345 £346 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £661
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -55.65% +188.37%
75th Percentile £28.75 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in Leeds

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing AWS Direct Connect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Packer
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk