Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 5 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.62% 5.67% 4.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 6.55% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £370 £352 £403
25th Percentile £400 £358 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £374 £451
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -17.07% -9.80%
75th Percentile £575 £536 £516
90th Percentile £613 £598 £533
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £400 £374 £451
% change year-on-year +6.95% -17.07% -9.80%

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 299 168 158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.08% 86.60% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 93 105
10th Percentile £167 £185 £211
25th Percentile £338 £335 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £485
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -12.37% -11.82%
75th Percentile £525 £573 £600
90th Percentile £591 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -1.69% -6.32% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 7
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.68 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.88 £17.17 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £44.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +39.06% +156.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £54.50 - £60.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £36.00 £21.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +71.43% +20.00% +40.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies 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 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 10 December 2025, Data Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) MLOps
3 2 (40.00%) PySpark
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) AIOps
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce