Data Engineering Jobs in the North East

Data Engineering
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 62 85
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 8 54 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.94% 2.81% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 3.28% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7 30 9
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,988 £52,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +15.38% -23.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £86,250 £78,000
90th Percentile £63,750 - £81,250
England median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £76,942
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.02% -3.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 718 1,646 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 84.27% 85.60% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 373 1,333 600
10th Percentile £24,606 £27,898 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,711
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -0.44% +12.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,258 £75,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North East

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the North East.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the North East

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the North East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the North East

Data Engineering
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the North East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +6 6 £47,500 -36.67% 15
Northumberland - 2 £62,500 -
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) PuTTY
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Impala
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (12.50%) QlikView
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Senior SQL DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Software Integration Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (12.50%) Plotly
2 1 (12.50%) Regular Expression
2 1 (12.50%) Shiny
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Hedge funds
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Data Science
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (25.00%) DataOps
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (25.00%) MLOps
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) PROC SQL
4 1 (12.50%) R
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Flume
2 1 (12.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) logstash
2 1 (12.50%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Informatica
3 1 (12.50%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (12.50%) RedGate
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Talend