Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Senior Data Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Oxfordshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 87 66
Rank change year-on-year +30 -21 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 5 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.75% 0.19% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.21% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £53,250
25th Percentile - £76,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +34.78% -6.12%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £59,375
90th Percentile £75,000 - £59,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

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 616 971 599
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.00% 92.44%
Number of salaries quoted 452 535 506
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +3.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £66,500
90th Percentile £77,250 £77,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Abingdon - 2 - - 1
Senior Data Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Acquisition
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Airbyte
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Data Sharing

Senior 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (20.00%) dbt
1 1 (20.00%) Fivetran
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Airbyte
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Snowpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Acquisition
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks