Data Engineer Job Trends in Abingdon

Data Engineer
Oxfordshire > Abingdon

The median Data Engineer salary in Abingdon is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 9 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Abingdon 6.98% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.98% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Abingdon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Abingdon. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Abingdon with a recognized job title 129 17 111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 89.47% 97.37%
Number of salaries quoted 80 10 93
10th Percentile - £28,250 £29,761
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,938 £36,032
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,188 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +9.31% -18.18%
75th Percentile £60,625 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,875 £68,500 £69,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +15.79% -4.95%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Abingdon

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

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Abingdon

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon

For the 6 months to 1 April 2026, Data Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Abingdon region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Analytics
1 6 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) AI
3 3 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Airbyte
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Data Sharing
4 2 (22.22%) dbt
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Power BI
4 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 2 (22.22%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (22.22%) Snowpark
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
5 1 (11.11%) Change Management
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) CRM

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon 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 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) dbt
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
1 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
2 1 (11.11%) Fivetran
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Airbyte
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
1 2 (22.22%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (11.11%) Data Hub
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Analytics
1 6 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Sharing
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform