Data Engineering Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Data Engineering
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 72 61
Rank change year-on-year +23 -11 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 5 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.68% 0.76% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.88% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile - £71,750 -
25th Percentile £91,250 £72,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £75,000 £34,048
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% +120.28% -40.79%
75th Percentile £93,750 £78,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% -5.26%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 529 681 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 72.37% 86.64% 88.23%
Number of salaries quoted 371 334 550
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,170 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,875 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 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 - 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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) dbt
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Airbyte
2 1 (20.00%) QGIS
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) GeoPandas
1 1 (20.00%) MapLibre
1 1 (20.00%) NetworkX
1 1 (20.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (20.00%) Snowpark
1 1 (20.00%) Streamlit
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 2 (40.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Data Development
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Argo
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Mapbox