Data Engineer Contracts in the North East

Data Engineer
England > North East

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the North East is £450, 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 23 37 51
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 15 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.69% 0.30% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.87% 0.33% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £390 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -20.50% +13.21%
75th Percentile £538 £489 £650
90th Percentile £583 - £665
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

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

Contract vacancies in the North East with a recognized job title 308 305 414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 90.24% 97.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 140 319
10th Percentile £200 £190 £231
25th Percentile £344 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £653 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 63 2
10th Percentile - £10.42 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 £35.56
Median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%
75th Percentile £23.97 £34.50 £45.56
90th Percentile £49.73 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the North East

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the North East

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +9 15 £450 -5.66% 15
Data Engineer
England

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

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 North East region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) Data Modelling
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) Databricks
3 7 (46.67%) PySpark
3 7 (46.67%) Data Lake
4 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (40.00%) Python
5 5 (33.33%) ETL
5 5 (33.33%) ERP
5 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 5 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (33.33%) Terraform
5 5 (33.33%) API Integration
5 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 5 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 5 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (26.67%) Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (20.00%) Serverless
7 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (20.00%) Metadata
7 3 (20.00%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 2 (13.33%) Analytical Modelling
8 2 (13.33%) dbt
8 2 (13.33%) Snowflake

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 2 (13.33%) Jupyter
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (13.33%) dbt
5 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.67%) Stitch
6 1 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (20.00%) Metadata
2 3 (20.00%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) PySpark
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) boto
3 1 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Data Modelling
2 5 (33.33%) API Integration
2 5 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 5 (33.33%) ERP
2 5 (33.33%) ETL
2 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Data Development
5 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
5 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (13.33%) Data Science
6 1 (6.67%) API Testing
6 1 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) SnowPro
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) New Relic