Data Engineer Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Data Engineer salary in Tyne and Wear is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 70 75
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 39 25 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.96% 2.72% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.06% 3.35% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 31 22 16
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,000 £54,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,003 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% -4.28% +21.74%
75th Percentile £86,250 £73,125 £85,000
90th Percentile - £80,925 -
North East median annual salary £67,750 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.23% -7.14% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 1,273 746 1,026
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.59% 81.18% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 461 705
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,000 £22,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,634 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,772 £77,500 £80,000
North East median annual salary £47,500 £47,672 £40,000
% change year-on-year -0.36% +19.18% -9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 27 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -2 22 £55,000 -17.91% 2
Sunderland - 16 £82,500 -
Data Engineer
North East

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (79.49%) Data Engineering
2 30 (76.92%) ETL
3 25 (64.10%) SQL
4 21 (53.85%) AWS
4 21 (53.85%) Social Skills
5 20 (51.28%) Data Quality
5 20 (51.28%) Python
6 19 (48.72%) Data Modelling
6 19 (48.72%) Mentoring
7 18 (46.15%) Data Integration
8 17 (43.59%) Data Architecture
9 16 (41.03%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (38.46%) Data Ingestion
10 15 (38.46%) Azure
10 15 (38.46%) Data Transformation
10 15 (38.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (38.46%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (35.90%) Games
12 13 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (33.33%) Online Games
12 13 (33.33%) Data Extraction
12 13 (33.33%) Client/Server
12 13 (33.33%) GCP
12 13 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (33.33%) SaaS
12 13 (33.33%) Data Lake
12 13 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
12 13 (33.33%) dbt
13 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) AWS
2 15 (38.46%) Amazon Kinesis
2 15 (38.46%) Azure
3 13 (33.33%) dbt
3 13 (33.33%) GCP
3 13 (33.33%) SaaS
4 11 (28.21%) Amazon S3
5 7 (17.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (17.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (17.95%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
7 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (10.26%) Serverless
8 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (38.46%) Amazon Redshift
2 13 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 13 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (28.21%) BigQuery
3 11 (28.21%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (15.38%) Looker
4 6 (15.38%) Power BI
5 4 (10.26%) Data Mining
6 2 (5.13%) Data Vault
6 2 (5.13%) Delta Lake
6 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.56%) Data Hub
7 1 (2.56%) Metadata
7 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
General
1 21 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Games
3 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 13 (33.33%) Online Games
2 6 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.69%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (79.49%) Data Engineering
2 30 (76.92%) ETL
3 19 (48.72%) Data Modelling
3 19 (48.72%) Mentoring
4 18 (46.15%) Data Integration
5 17 (43.59%) Data Architecture
6 16 (41.03%) Data Pipeline
7 15 (38.46%) Data Ingestion
7 15 (38.46%) Data Transformation
7 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (33.33%) Data Extraction
8 13 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (25.64%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (25.64%) Data Science
10 8 (20.51%) Coaching
10 8 (20.51%) DevOps
11 7 (17.95%) Agile
11 7 (17.95%) Analytics
12 6 (15.38%) Change Management
12 6 (15.38%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) SQL
2 20 (51.28%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) C#
4 2 (5.13%) Scala
5 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) DBS Check
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (51.28%) Data Quality
2 6 (15.38%) GDPR
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Google
2 6 (15.38%) Databricks
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Alteryx
3 2 (5.13%) Informatica
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle