AWS Direct Connect Contracts in the South West

AWS Direct Connect
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 140 146
Rank change year-on-year +33 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.053% 0.036% 0.030%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% -10.78%
75th Percentile £713 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £535 £584 £585
% change year-on-year -8.35% -0.21% -6.40%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 556 741 999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.28% 26.51% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 525 777
10th Percentile £213 £250 £300
25th Percentile £350 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £675
90th Percentile £684 £675 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 45 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.60 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £33.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +100.00% +68.67%
75th Percentile £34.50 - £78.00
90th Percentile £37.50 - £78.80
England median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £32.31
% change year-on-year +9.24% -26.34% +50.28%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Direct Connect in the South West

AWS Direct Connect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Direct Connect in the South West

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Bristol - 1 £675 - 1
AWS Direct Connect
England

AWS Direct Connect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (100.00%) VMware