Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Data Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 82 86
Rank change year-on-year +41 +4 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.65% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £63,250 - -
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% +51.79%
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,750 - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +51.79%

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 293 992 665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 97.45% 84.93%
Number of salaries quoted 224 835 411
10th Percentile £29,325 £30,000 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,683
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £47,500 £54,242
Median % change year-on-year +18.95% -12.43% +10.99%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,625 £77,500 £75,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +16.67%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Design
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform

Senior 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Design
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft