AWS Direct Connect Job Trends

AWS Direct Connect
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 694 620 852
Rank change year-on-year -74 +232 +122
Permanent jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 19 12 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.029% 0.025%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.072% 0.080% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 21
10th Percentile - £96,500 £56,250
25th Percentile - £108,125 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £135,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year - +61.19% +23.16%
75th Percentile - £142,500 £90,000
90th Percentile - - £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £65,288
% change year-on-year - - +27.39%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26,447 15,026 33,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.74% 36.72% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,974 11,072 26,654
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Direct Connect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Direct Connect.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect
Top 3 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +3 19 - - 4
England -58 19 - - 6
Work from Home +17 17 - - 4

AWS Direct Connect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (89.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 15 (78.95%) SaaS
4 10 (52.63%) Azure
5 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (31.58%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
5 6 (31.58%) Route 53
6 2 (10.53%) GCP
7 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (5.26%) Datadog
7 1 (5.26%) Smartsheet
7 1 (5.26%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) VPN
2 18 (94.74%) BGP
3 13 (68.42%) Firewall
3 13 (68.42%) SD-WAN
3 13 (68.42%) WAN
4 12 (63.16%) MPLS
4 12 (63.16%) OSPF
5 11 (57.89%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (57.89%) Cisco Firepower
5 11 (57.89%) Cisco ISE
5 11 (57.89%) IPsec
5 11 (57.89%) NX-OS
5 11 (57.89%) VXLAN
5 11 (57.89%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (57.89%) WLAN
6 10 (52.63%) LAN
7 9 (47.37%) NetScaler
8 8 (42.11%) TCP/IP
9 6 (31.58%) VLAN
10 2 (10.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Law
2 7 (36.84%) Retail
3 6 (31.58%) Back Office
3 6 (31.58%) Banking
3 6 (31.58%) Financial Institution
3 6 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (57.89%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (57.89%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (57.89%) Network Engineer
3 9 (47.37%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (47.37%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 9 (47.37%) Firewall Engineer
3 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 9 (47.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (47.37%) Network Operations Engineer
3 9 (47.37%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (78.95%) Data Centre
2 9 (47.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (47.37%) Management Information System
3 6 (31.58%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (15.79%) Blog
4 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (84.21%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (63.16%) Network Segmentation
4 10 (52.63%) Cloud Security
4 10 (52.63%) Zero Trust
5 9 (47.37%) Kalman Filter
5 9 (47.37%) Runbook
6 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (36.84%) Load Balancing
7 6 (31.58%) API Management
7 6 (31.58%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (31.58%) Immutable Infrastructure
7 6 (31.58%) Observability
7 6 (31.58%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (31.58%) SOA
8 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
8 3 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Go
1 6 (31.58%) Java
1 6 (31.58%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) CCIE
2 3 (15.79%) CCNP
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) CCNA
3 2 (10.53%) CCSA
3 2 (10.53%) CCSE
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) SOC 2
2 6 (31.58%) PCI DSS
3 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.26%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Cisco
2 11 (57.89%) CheckPoint
2 11 (57.89%) Dynatrace
2 11 (57.89%) Fortinet
2 11 (57.89%) Meraki
2 11 (57.89%) SolarWinds
3 9 (47.37%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.26%) Zscaler