AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

AWS Direct Connect
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 113 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.16% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -15.38%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 644 563 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.73% 29.93% 35.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 369 536
10th Percentile £300 £223 £206
25th Percentile £420 £358 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +6.38% -5.05%
75th Percentile £608 £611 £595
90th Percentile £700 £685 £694
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 7
10th Percentile £25.82 £15.83 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £23.55 £17.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +82.35% +12.12%
75th Percentile £34.98 £35.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £40.45 £37.50 £19.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AWS Direct Connect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Shropshire - 3 £325 -
AWS Direct Connect
England

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 3 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
1 3 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft