Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the North East

Senior Data Engineer
England > North East

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the North East is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 111 111
Rank change year-on-year +44 0 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 4 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.51% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £66,750 £53,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £69,375 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +18.52% +20.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,875 £78,125
90th Percentile £90,750 £87,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 712 1,785 1,009
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 95.76% 79.95%
Number of salaries quoted 391 1,435 595
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,650
25th Percentile £26,375 £35,920 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £65,552 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the North East

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the North East

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the North East

Senior Data Engineer
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 Senior Data Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 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 +42 2 £80,000 - 3
Northumberland - 2 £62,500 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 16 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 North East region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Scala
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) PySpark

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
3 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 1 (25.00%) Advertising
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Batch Processing
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) DataOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (50.00%) MLOps
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Data Design
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft