Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in the North East

Data Engineering
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 31 32
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.45% 1.19% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.34% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £466 £556 -
25th Percentile £491 £583 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £648 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.99% +7.92% +15.38%
75th Percentile £591 £693 -
90th Percentile £619 £709 -
England median daily rate £520 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -9.57% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -23.08% +56.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 228 224 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 82.91% 88.89% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 100 159
10th Percentile £200 £307 £313
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £564 £590 £600
90th Percentile £625 £680 £720
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 9
10th Percentile £11.60 £14.50 £16.85
25th Percentile £13.37 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.30 £46.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.54% +130.90% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 - £33.75
90th Percentile £42.40 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.96%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North East

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the North East over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the North East

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the North East region over the 6 months to 9 September 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 -3 4 £538 -16.99% 3
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Looker
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google