Data Engineer Job Trends 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 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 72 61
Rank change year-on-year +32 -11 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 16 6 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 2.18% 0.77% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% 0.85% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £51,625 - £27,719
25th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £34,048
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £76,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +38.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,375 £78,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 - £64,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 693 704 729
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 90.03% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 486 373 607
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,558 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram 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 13 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Abingdon - 7 - -
Kidlington - 1 £55,000 -
Data Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
2 6 (37.50%) Data Acquisition
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (25.00%) LabVIEW
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 3 (18.75%) AI
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
5 3 (18.75%) Terraform
5 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (12.50%) Agile
6 2 (12.50%) Airbyte
6 2 (12.50%) AWS
6 2 (12.50%) Azure
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Storage
6 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Cost Management
6 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (12.50%) Data Sharing
6 2 (12.50%) Databricks
6 2 (12.50%) dbt
6 2 (12.50%) Git

Data Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Storage
1 2 (12.50%) dbt
1 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
2 1 (6.25%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Airbyte
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
1 2 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (12.50%) Spark SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Data Hub
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) LabVIEW
2 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (37.50%) Manufacturing
2 4 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Law
5 1 (6.25%) Aeronautics
5 1 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Arduino
1 1 (6.25%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
2 6 (37.50%) Data Acquisition
3 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (18.75%) AI
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
4 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
5 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Cost Management
5 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) Data Sharing
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks