Data Engineer Jobs in Oxfordshire

Data Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Oxfordshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 92 101
Rank change year-on-year +23 +9 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 2 25 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.29% 1.41% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 1.48% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 2
10th Percentile £58,000 £27,100 £54,713
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,125
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -3.42% -2.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £67,906
90th Percentile £72,000 £82,000 £69,238
South East median annual salary £70,000 £48,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +45.83% -23.20% -1.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 606 1,691 1,259
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.73% 95.54% 84.72%
Number of salaries quoted 312 1,315 789
10th Percentile £28,850 £29,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -0.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £70,000 £77,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Oxfordshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Oxfordshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford +29 1 £65,000 -13.33% 3
Data Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) pydantic
2 1 (50.00%) Health Technology
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) MLflow
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
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%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) pydantic
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks