Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Senior Data Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 34 25
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.56% 0.92% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.05% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £376 £588 £413
25th Percentile £416 £591 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £598 £485
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +23.20% +14.12%
75th Percentile £591 £604 £533
90th Percentile £619 £608 £537
North East median daily rate £513 £598 £485
% change year-on-year -14.23% +23.20% +14.12%

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 347 191 166
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.66% 87.61% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 110 111
10th Percentile £166 £219 £188
25th Percentile £345 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £578
90th Percentile £579 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £470 £433
% change year-on-year -4.26% +8.55% -19.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 9
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.23 £12.85
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.05 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.75 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.75% +14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £31.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £54.38 £41.78 £61.75
North East median hourly rate £32.46 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -29.72% - +105.24%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

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

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 25 December 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 -16 2 £513 -14.23% 6
Senior Data Engineer
North East

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

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Munging
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Munging
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks