Data Engineer Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Data Engineer salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 61 62
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 4 22 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.30% 2.15% 2.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 2.21% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 23
10th Percentile £63,750 £47,750 £39,547
25th Percentile £67,500 £51,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £55,000 £67,003
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% -17.91% -4.28%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,750 £83,000 £80,600
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £77,500 £73,750 £67,003
% change year-on-year +5.08% +10.07% -4.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 294 995 656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 97.26% 84.75%
Number of salaries quoted 220 837 404
10th Percentile £28,900 £30,000 £31,613
25th Percentile £40,866 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -8.57% +7.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £63,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +16.67%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (50.00%) Databricks
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Front Office
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (25.00%) Law
4 1 (25.00%) Advertising

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Parquet
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Front Office
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Advertising
3 1 (25.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Design
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft