Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Data Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 33 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.59% 1.02% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.17% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £376 £588 £413
25th Percentile £416 £591 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £598 £485
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +23.20% +14.12%
75th Percentile £591 £604 £533
90th Percentile £619 £608 £537
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £513 £598 £485
% change year-on-year -14.23% +23.20% +14.12%

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 328 171 150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.04% 87.24% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 96 102
10th Percentile £163 £206 £207
25th Percentile £343 £333 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £445 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -8.25% -11.82%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £595
90th Percentile £575 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 7
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.35 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.35 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.75 £19.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.11% -60.00% +280.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £54.38 £43.00 £63.50
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £31.75 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +58.75% +14.29% +40.00%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

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

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Munging
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Munging
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks