Data Engineer Jobs in Oxford

Data Engineer
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Data Engineer salary in Oxford is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 59 53
Rank change year-on-year +26 -6 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 0.47% 0.92% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.97% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +100.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £41,250
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -9.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

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

Permanent vacancies in Oxford with a recognized job title 193 620 376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 95.38% 84.49%
Number of salaries quoted 114 456 265
10th Percentile £42,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,188 £64,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.77% -1.90%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Oxford

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Oxford.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Oxford

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Oxford region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) pydantic

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) pydantic
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks