Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Data Engineer
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Oxford is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.67% - 3.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% - 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £407 - £203
25th Percentile £408 - £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - £335
75th Percentile £433 - £418
90th Percentile £436 - £467
Oxfordshire median daily rate £419 - £175
% change year-on-year - - -67.44%

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 103 51 60
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.83% 96.23% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 19 44
10th Percentile £289 £214 £160
25th Percentile £363 £222 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £363 £413
Median % change year-on-year +35.17% -12.12% +3.13%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £500
90th Percentile £664 £618 £567
Oxfordshire median daily rate £480 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.11% -
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% -36.53%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Oxford

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Oxford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Oxford

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 18 September 2026, 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 Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform

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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification