Data Engineer Jobs in Durham

Data Engineer
North East > Durham

The median Data Engineer salary in Durham is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 14 13 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 3.33% 4.11% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.60% 5.60% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £42,500 £61,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £47,750 £61,600 -
North East median annual salary £71,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.14% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Durham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Durham. 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 Durham with a recognized job title 389 232 241
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 73.42% 91.98%
Number of salaries quoted 269 123 179
10th Percentile £27,395 £27,500 £19,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £57,633 £52,500 £43,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £48,750
North East median annual salary £47,500 £47,641 £40,000
% change year-on-year -0.30% +19.10% -8.57%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Durham

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Durham

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Durham

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Durham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Durham

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Durham region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Darlington -11 3 - - 1
Newton Aycliffe -3 2 £32,500 -
Data Engineer
North East

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 Durham region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) SQL
1 11 (78.57%) ETL
1 11 (78.57%) Agile
1 11 (78.57%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (64.29%) Data Science
3 8 (57.14%) BigQuery
3 8 (57.14%) GCP
3 8 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 8 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
4 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Git
4 5 (35.71%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
4 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (35.71%) Fintech
4 5 (35.71%) Terraform
4 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
4 5 (35.71%) ETL Development
4 5 (35.71%) Data Analytics
4 5 (35.71%) Analytics
4 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
4 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (35.71%) Looker
4 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Batch Processing
5 4 (28.57%) SQL Server

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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 8 (57.14%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) BigQuery
1 8 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (35.71%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (35.71%) Looker
2 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 3 (21.43%) Power BI
4 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) Handlebars
1 2 (14.29%) JSON
1 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Agile
1 11 (78.57%) Data Pipeline
1 11 (78.57%) ETL
2 9 (64.29%) Data Science
3 8 (57.14%) Data Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Analytics
4 5 (35.71%) Batch Processing
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (35.71%) Data Analytics
4 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
4 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
4 5 (35.71%) ETL Development
4 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven
4 5 (35.71%) Fintech
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Change Management
5 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
5 3 (21.43%) DataOps
5 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 2 (14.29%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft