Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £406, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 29 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 8 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 3.09% 1.46% 7.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.29% 1.68% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 9
10th Percentile £359 £393 £341
25th Percentile £363 £465 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £585 £485
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% +20.62% -7.18%
75th Percentile £481 £598 £600
90th Percentile £594 £605 -
North East median daily rate £413 £585 £485
% change year-on-year -29.49% +20.62% -7.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 243 179 150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 86.89% 91.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 84 112
10th Percentile £173 £217 £276
25th Percentile £345 £350 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £445 £485
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -8.25% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £600
90th Percentile £643 £650 £719
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £435
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -17.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 5
10th Percentile £13.75 £17.01 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.19 £42.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £60.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.92% +252.94% +36.00%
75th Percentile £22.19 £70.00 £32.00
90th Percentile £36.00 - £33.05
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £32.00
% change year-on-year -58.32% +44.31% +103.17%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -5 6 £416 -28.85% 10
Hebburn - 2 £375 - 1
Data Engineer
North East

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 16 October 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) Databricks
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Delta Lake
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (25.00%) PySpark
4 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) AI
5 1 (12.50%) AIOps
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Delta Lake
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Benchmarking
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce