Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineering
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.86% 1.20% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.30% 1.29%
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 -
North East median daily rate £538 £648 £600
% change year-on-year -16.99% +7.92% +15.38%

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 182 154 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 84.65% 92.22% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 77 108
10th Percentile £200 £325 £343
25th Percentile £400 £383 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -10.48% -
75th Percentile £550 £560 £630
90th Percentile £624 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £465 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 6
10th Percentile £13.71 £14.93 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £18.28 £19.25 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -2.53% +22.06%
75th Percentile £20.63 £65.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £37.60 £70.00 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.30 £46.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year -62.54% +130.90% +14.29%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 8 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -3 3 £625 -3.47% 2
Sunderland - 1 £450 - 1
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 (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