Data Engineering Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineering
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 30 51
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.82% 0.82% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.96% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £453 £410 £605
25th Percentile £456 £413 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £423 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.29% -32.32% +1.63%
75th Percentile £506 £429 £638
90th Percentile £518 £430 £645
North East median daily rate £475 £423 £625
% change year-on-year +12.29% -32.32% +1.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Tyne and Wear 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
Sunderland +1 1 £450 +6.38%
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £500 - 18
Data Engineering
North East

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks