AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Oxford is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 0.84% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Oxford with a recognized job title 102 50 59
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.71% 96.15% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 17 44
10th Percentile £244 £207 £160
25th Percentile £343 £222 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £363 £413
Median % change year-on-year +32.41% -12.12% +3.13%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £500
90th Percentile £664 £635 £567
Oxfordshire median daily rate £480 £406 £450
% change year-on-year +18.15% -9.72% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 8
10th Percentile £33.00 - -
25th Percentile £34.50 £25.15 £12.18
Median hourly rate £37.00 £51.08 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.56% +179.86% +0.94%
75th Percentile £63.75 £87.97 £21.75
90th Percentile - £89.63 -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £37.00 £25.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +43.27% +25.98% -32.19%

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 17 September 2026, AWS Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Oxford region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
AWS Data Engineer jobs