AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

AWS Direct Connect
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.069% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
South East median daily rate £400 - £595

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 851 510 797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.29% 33.86% 29.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 339 524
10th Percentile £291 £300 £264
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £601 £608
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 30
10th Percentile £23.96 £20.96 £15.99
25th Percentile £30.66 £28.05 £20.49
Median hourly rate £81.00 £32.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +152.73% -24.59% +59.89%
75th Percentile £92.75 £47.15 £61.11
90th Percentile £99.25 £76.51 £61.64
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year +69.64% +20.61% +0.28%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing AWS Direct Connect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Berkshire - 1 £400 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
AWS Direct Connect
South East

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

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCDE
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto