AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in Sunderland

AWS Direct Connect
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sunderland requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sunderland 4.35% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £600 -
% change year-on-year -29.17% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sunderland 26.09% 71.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 £188 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £195 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% - -
75th Percentile £428 £450 -
90th Percentile £434 £525 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +10.53%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in Sunderland

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland 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