AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

AWS Direct Connect
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.088% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate - £500 -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 417 190 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.80% 30.60% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 146 109
10th Percentile £353 £296 £223
25th Percentile £450 £358 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -6.31% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £548 £588
90th Percentile £688 £625 £639
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 £21.00
% change year-on-year -61.83% +336.62% -1.20%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Sheffield - 1 - - 1
AWS Direct Connect
Yorkshire

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Thinking
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google