AWS Direct Connect Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AWS Direct Connect
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS Direct Connect over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 582 665
Rank change year-on-year +179 +83 +145
Permanent jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 10 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.021% 0.014%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.048% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile - - £41,250
25th Percentile £127,500 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +134.78% +12.20% -35.94%
75th Percentile £142,500 £61,625 £53,750
90th Percentile - £62,500 £60,875
UK median annual salary £135,000 £70,576 £65,000
% change year-on-year +91.28% +8.58% -10.34%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,870 14,651 20,340
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.22% 43.29% 47.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,641 12,003 14,920
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,640 £37,885
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +0.78%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Direct Connect.

AWS Direct Connect salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Route 53
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
1 8 (80.00%) VPN
1 8 (80.00%) WAN
2 6 (60.00%) BGP
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 6 (60.00%) IPsec
2 6 (60.00%) MPLS
2 6 (60.00%) NX-OS
2 6 (60.00%) OSPF
2 6 (60.00%) SD-WAN
2 6 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (60.00%) WLAN
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (30.00%) LAN
3 3 (30.00%) NetScaler
3 3 (30.00%) VXLAN
4 2 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infoblox Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Data Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Principal Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Change Management
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (50.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (30.00%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Runbook
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (20.00%) GitOps
4 2 (20.00%) MLOps
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCNP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) CheckPoint
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
1 6 (60.00%) Dynatrace
1 6 (60.00%) Infoblox
1 6 (60.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (30.00%) Meraki
3 2 (20.00%) Hitachi