AWS Direct Connect Contracts in the Midlands

AWS Direct Connect
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Direct Connect over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.12% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
England median daily rate £400 £584 £585
% change year-on-year -31.48% -0.21% +6.36%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 760 679 1,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.62% 25.65% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 491 816
10th Percentile £275 £200 £210
25th Percentile £381 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -3.06%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £575
90th Percentile £666 £688 £688
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 25
10th Percentile £15.21 £14.14 £13.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.56 £14.52
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.41 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% +2.05% +5.96%
75th Percentile £30.00 £29.11 £30.00
90th Percentile £44.29 £50.11 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% -31.82% +53.49%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Direct Connect in the Midlands

AWS Direct Connect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Direct Connect in the Midlands

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
West Midlands - 3 £325 -
AWS Direct Connect
England

AWS Direct Connect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 3 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
1 3 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft