AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
South East > Thames Valley

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the Thames Valley is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 112 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.033% 0.060% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.066% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -
75th Percentile £438 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £459 £464 -
% change year-on-year -0.97% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,782 1,520 1,999
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.78% 90.80% 91.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 961 1,119
10th Percentile £339 £250 £275
25th Percentile £431 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% -0.20% +0.20%
75th Percentile £610 £588 £608
90th Percentile £700 £650 £677
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 89 94
10th Percentile £15.04 £14.49 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.38 £15.13 £25.99
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £58.43
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -56.96% +16.87%
75th Percentile £83.00 £55.00 £69.14
90th Percentile £102.18 £87.50 £92.63
South East median hourly rate £49.00 £25.15 £58.49
% change year-on-year +94.83% -57.00% +13.75%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Data Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 - 3
AWS Data Engineer
South East

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 29 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 Thames Valley 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 the Thames Valley 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