AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in the North of England

AWS Direct Connect
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 197 164 -
Rank change year-on-year -33 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.025% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.078% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £489 - -
25th Percentile £503 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% - -
75th Percentile £547 £413 -
90th Percentile £575 - -
England median daily rate £535 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +12.63% -13.64% -15.38%

All Cloud Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,648 1,280 1,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 36.93% 32.42% 35.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 815 1,282
10th Percentile £255 £300 £257
25th Percentile £363 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 24 67
10th Percentile £14.70 £17.44 £15.90
25th Percentile £16.94 £20.91 £18.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.75% -10.00% +30.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.14 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.16 £73.60 £56.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +27.16%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North 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 North of England.

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in the North of England

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Direct Connect in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Direct Connect in the North of England

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Yorkshire - 4 £500 - 1
North West -25 2 £543 +35.63%
North East - 1 £600 -
AWS Direct Connect
England

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
4 2 (28.57%) Network Security
4 2 (28.57%) SSL
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (57.14%) DynamoDB
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (28.57%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Auto-Scaling
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) AI
4 2 (28.57%) Compliance Audit
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Database Security
4 2 (28.57%) DDoS Mitigation
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (28.57%) Release Management
4 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
4 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Kustomize
2 2 (28.57%) Packer
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk