Data Engineer Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 26 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 14 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.28% 0.48% 2.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.45% 0.53% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 8
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £382 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £477 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% -20.50% +13.21%
75th Percentile £547 £489 £650
90th Percentile £586 - £665
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £477 £600
% change year-on-year -5.66% -20.50% +13.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 217 188 322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.31% 89.52% 98.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 93 252
10th Percentile £236 £338 £320
25th Percentile £358 £400 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £570 £590 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £742
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £455 £500 £555
% change year-on-year -9.00% -9.91% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £12.66 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £18.69 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £67.88 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -25.71% - -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 7 (50.00%) PySpark
3 6 (42.86%) Databricks
3 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) Machine Learning
4 5 (35.71%) Python
4 5 (35.71%) ERP
4 5 (35.71%) Terraform
4 5 (35.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (35.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (35.71%) Data Transformation
4 5 (35.71%) API Integration
5 4 (28.57%) ETL
6 3 (21.43%) Analytics
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
6 3 (21.43%) Serverless
6 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
7 2 (14.29%) Metadata
7 2 (14.29%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (14.29%) Analytical Modelling
7 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (14.29%) Data Science

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (14.29%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (35.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (7.14%) dbt
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Stitch
5 1 (7.14%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) PySpark
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) boto
3 1 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (35.71%) API Integration
2 5 (35.71%) Data Transformation
2 5 (35.71%) ERP
2 5 (35.71%) Machine Learning
3 4 (28.57%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Analytical Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Data Development
5 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) Data Science
6 1 (7.14%) API Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) SnowPro
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) New Relic