AWS Direct Connect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AWS Direct Connect
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 325 405
Rank change year-on-year +25 +80 +187
DemandTrendContract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 6 7 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.054% 0.052%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 10
10th Percentile £611 £555 £448
25th Percentile £628 £563 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £598 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.97% +8.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £713 £609 £582
90th Percentile - £637 £590
UK median daily rate £550 £584 £558
% change year-on-year -5.78% +4.71% -14.23%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,070 4,868 8,303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.41% 37.72% 39.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,810 3,407 6,134
10th Percentile £340 £338 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 44 138
10th Percentile £16.89 £14.34 £18.85
25th Percentile £24.83 £18.03 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £67.00 £56.40 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £75.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.86 £35.25
% change year-on-year +0.50% -20.96% +67.46%

AWS Direct Connect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Direct Connect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Direct Connect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AWS Direct Connect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) API Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (16.67%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Kustomize
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Brocade
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk