Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Data Engineering
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.20% 1.11% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.32% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £706 - -
90th Percentile £733 - -
South East median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 139 76 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 83.73% 84.44% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 46 119
10th Percentile £200 £248 £143
25th Percentile £306 £406 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -7.61%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £628 £638 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 26
10th Percentile £15.62 £44.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.54 £47.50 £16.15
Median hourly rate £20.18 £55.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.31% +182.05% -25.00%
75th Percentile £24.68 £62.50 £26.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £65.50 £41.88
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Oxfordshire

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
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 Data Engineering within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 February 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 £750 - 3
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft