Data Engineer Jobs in the North East

Data Engineer
England > North East

The median Data Engineer salary in the North East is £71,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 69 93
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 54 44 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.95% 3.44% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.09% 4.31% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 35 25 17
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £52,300
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £85,625 £71,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £79,950 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 1,748 1,021 1,401
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.57% 79.89% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,411 612 998
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,920 £36,881 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,641 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% +19.10% -8.57%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North East

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North East.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the North East

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the North East

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Tyne and Wear +9 40 £73,750 +10.07% 2
Durham +3 14 £32,500 -40.91% 1
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 29 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 North East region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (77.78%) ETL
2 40 (74.07%) Data Engineering
3 36 (66.67%) SQL
4 28 (51.85%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (46.30%) Data Modelling
6 24 (44.44%) Python
6 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
7 23 (42.59%) Mentoring
8 22 (40.74%) GCP
8 22 (40.74%) Data Quality
9 21 (38.89%) Data Integration
9 21 (38.89%) AWS
10 20 (37.04%) BigQuery
11 19 (35.19%) Data Science
11 19 (35.19%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (33.33%) Agile
12 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
13 17 (31.48%) Data Architecture
14 16 (29.63%) Azure
15 15 (27.78%) Data Transformation
15 15 (27.78%) Data Ingestion
15 15 (27.78%) Amazon Kinesis
15 15 (27.78%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (25.93%) Data Lake
16 14 (25.93%) Google
16 14 (25.93%) Games
17 13 (24.07%) Client/Server
17 13 (24.07%) Online Games

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (24.07%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) GCP
2 21 (38.89%) AWS
3 16 (29.63%) Azure
4 15 (27.78%) Amazon Kinesis
5 13 (24.07%) dbt
5 13 (24.07%) SaaS
6 11 (20.37%) Amazon S3
7 9 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 8 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (14.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (12.96%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (7.41%) Serverless
11 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.04%) BigQuery
2 19 (35.19%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (27.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (25.93%) Data Lake
6 11 (20.37%) Looker
7 9 (16.67%) Power BI
8 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
9 5 (9.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (9.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (7.41%) Data Mining
11 2 (3.70%) Data Vault
11 2 (3.70%) Delta Lake
11 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
12 1 (1.85%) Data Hub
12 1 (1.85%) Metadata
12 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
1 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
General
1 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 17 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (25.93%) Games
4 7 (12.96%) Retail
5 5 (9.26%) Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Finance
6 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) .NET
1 2 (3.70%) Handlebars
1 2 (3.70%) JSON
1 2 (3.70%) XML
2 1 (1.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) Client/Server
1 13 (24.07%) Online Games
2 9 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (77.78%) ETL
2 40 (74.07%) Data Engineering
3 28 (51.85%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (46.30%) Data Modelling
5 23 (42.59%) Mentoring
6 21 (38.89%) Data Integration
7 19 (35.19%) Data Science
8 18 (33.33%) Agile
8 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (31.48%) Data Architecture
10 15 (27.78%) Data Ingestion
10 15 (27.78%) Data Transformation
11 13 (24.07%) Analytics
11 13 (24.07%) Data Extraction
11 13 (24.07%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (22.22%) DevOps
13 10 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (16.67%) Change Management
14 9 (16.67%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 36 (66.67%) SQL
2 24 (44.44%) Python
3 6 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.70%) Scala
4 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.70%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (40.74%) Data Quality
2 9 (16.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 6 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (1.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (25.93%) Google
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.11%) Databricks
4 2 (3.70%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.70%) Informatica
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle