AWS Direct Connect Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

AWS Direct Connect
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring AWS Direct Connect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Direct Connect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South East median daily rate £500 - £595

All Cloud Computing Skills
Oxfordshire

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 requiring cloud computing skills in Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 114 43 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 32.76% 35.83% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 29 52
10th Percentile £203 £205 £143
25th Percentile £241 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £275 £450
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -38.89% +4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £431 £502
90th Percentile £638 £515 £598
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 1
10th Percentile £12.78 £32.86 -
25th Percentile £23.02 £41.50 -
Median hourly rate £29.07 £46.30 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.21% +189.38% -50.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £24.66 £30.00
% change year-on-year +112.90% -17.80% -0.76%

AWS Direct Connect
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

AWS Direct Connect job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

AWS Direct Connect
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing AWS Direct Connect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Direct Connect within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford - 1 £500 - 1
AWS Direct Connect
South East

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto