AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in the North East

AWS Direct Connect
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -50 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.12% 0.34% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £584
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.78% +5.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 298 128 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 35.14% 44.14% 28.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 78 32
10th Percentile £313 £326 £190
25th Percentile £363 £411 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.06% +18.29%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £598
90th Percentile £575 £629 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 6
10th Percentile £62.00 - £11.44
25th Percentile £62.50 - £20.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -22.04% +42.09%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in the North East

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -39 1 £425 -29.17% 1
AWS Direct Connect
England

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft