AWS Direct Connect Job Trends in England

AWS Direct Connect
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 667 666
Rank change year-on-year +62 -1 +279
Permanent jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 12 12 14
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.023% 0.025% 0.028%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.065% 0.068% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 13
10th Percentile £64,000 £48,425 £57,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £71,938 £57,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £112,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £142,500 -
90th Percentile £79,000 - £143,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £112,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -37.78% +25.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

AWS Direct Connect falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,577 17,573 19,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.16% 36.51% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,387 10,399 16,693
10th Percentile £28,900 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,376 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,850 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in England

AWS Direct Connect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Direct Connect.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Direct Connect in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Direct Connect in England

AWS Direct Connect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Direct Connect within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +60 12 £70,000 -37.78% 1
AWS Direct Connect
UK

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 8 (66.67%) Azure
3 8 (66.67%) SaaS
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (25.00%) Route 53
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) BGP
1 12 (100.00%) VPN
2 9 (75.00%) OSPF
2 9 (75.00%) SD-WAN
2 9 (75.00%) WAN
3 8 (66.67%) Firewall
4 7 (58.33%) IPsec
4 7 (58.33%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (50.00%) MPLS
6 5 (41.67%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (41.67%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (41.67%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (41.67%) LAN
6 5 (41.67%) NetScaler
6 5 (41.67%) NX-OS
6 5 (41.67%) VXLAN
6 5 (41.67%) WLAN
7 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
8 3 (25.00%) EIGRP
8 3 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Law
2 3 (25.00%) Back Office
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (25.00%) Retail
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Firewall Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Network Operations Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (25.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 5 (41.67%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (41.67%) Runbook
5 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (33.33%) Load Balancing
5 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (25.00%) API Management
6 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (25.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 3 (25.00%) Observability
6 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) SOA
6 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Go
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 4 (33.33%) CCIE
1 4 (33.33%) CCNP
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (33.33%) SOC 2
3 3 (25.00%) NIST
3 3 (25.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco
2 7 (58.33%) SolarWinds
3 5 (41.67%) CheckPoint
3 5 (41.67%) Dynatrace
3 5 (41.67%) Fortinet
3 5 (41.67%) Meraki
3 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (16.67%) Arista
5 2 (16.67%) Brocade
6 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (8.33%) Zscaler