Data Engineer Jobs in the North East

Data Engineer
England > North East

The median Data Engineer salary in the North East is £67,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 75 100
Rank change year-on-year +14 +25 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 53 43 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.91% 3.39% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.04% 4.26% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 34 24 16
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £52,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,875 £57,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £66,001 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -5.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £85,313 £71,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,275 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,741 1,010 1,402
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.66% 79.53% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,410 599 998
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,920 £36,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,672 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +19.18% -8.83%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,638 £74,100 £71,250
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North East

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the North East

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the North East

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 Data Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 +11 39 £72,500 +8.20% 2
Durham -1 14 £32,500 -40.91% 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 Data Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (77.36%) ETL
2 39 (73.58%) Data Engineering
3 36 (67.92%) SQL
4 27 (50.94%) Data Pipeline
5 24 (45.28%) Social Skills
5 24 (45.28%) Data Modelling
6 23 (43.40%) Python
7 22 (41.51%) Data Quality
7 22 (41.51%) Mentoring
8 21 (39.62%) GCP
8 21 (39.62%) Data Integration
8 21 (39.62%) AWS
9 19 (35.85%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (35.85%) BigQuery
9 19 (35.85%) Data Science
10 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (33.96%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (33.96%) Agile
11 17 (32.08%) Data Architecture
11 17 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
12 16 (30.19%) Azure
13 15 (28.30%) Data Transformation
13 15 (28.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (28.30%) Amazon Kinesis
13 15 (28.30%) Data Ingestion
14 14 (26.42%) Data Lake
14 14 (26.42%) Google
14 14 (26.42%) Games
15 13 (24.53%) Client/Server
15 13 (24.53%) Online Games

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 13 (24.53%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (39.62%) AWS
1 21 (39.62%) GCP
2 16 (30.19%) Azure
3 15 (28.30%) Amazon Kinesis
4 13 (24.53%) dbt
4 13 (24.53%) SaaS
5 11 (20.75%) Amazon S3
6 9 (16.98%) Power Platform
7 8 (15.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (15.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (13.21%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.55%) Serverless
10 2 (3.77%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) BigQuery
1 19 (35.85%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (33.96%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (28.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (26.42%) Data Lake
5 11 (20.75%) Looker
6 9 (16.98%) Power BI
7 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
8 5 (9.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (7.55%) Data Mining
10 2 (3.77%) Data Vault
10 2 (3.77%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.89%) Data Hub
11 1 (1.89%) Metadata
11 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
1 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 17 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (26.42%) Games
4 7 (13.21%) Retail
5 5 (9.43%) Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Finance
6 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) .NET
1 2 (3.77%) Handlebars
1 2 (3.77%) JSON
1 2 (3.77%) XML
2 1 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Client/Server
1 13 (24.53%) Online Games
2 9 (16.98%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.66%) IoT
4 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (77.36%) ETL
2 39 (73.58%) Data Engineering
3 27 (50.94%) Data Pipeline
4 24 (45.28%) Data Modelling
5 22 (41.51%) Mentoring
6 21 (39.62%) Data Integration
7 19 (35.85%) Data Science
8 18 (33.96%) Agile
8 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (32.08%) Data Architecture
10 15 (28.30%) Data Ingestion
10 15 (28.30%) Data Transformation
11 13 (24.53%) Data Extraction
11 13 (24.53%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (22.64%) Analytics
13 11 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (20.75%) DevOps
14 9 (16.98%) Change Management
14 9 (16.98%) DataOps
14 9 (16.98%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (67.92%) SQL
2 23 (43.40%) Python
3 6 (11.32%) C#
4 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.77%) Scala
4 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.77%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.55%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (41.51%) Data Quality
2 9 (16.98%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (9.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) Google
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.32%) Databricks
4 2 (3.77%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.77%) Informatica
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle