Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Senior Data Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Tyne and Wear is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 95 94
Rank change year-on-year +44 -1 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 2 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.45% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £63,250 £66,750 -
25th Percentile £66,250 £69,375 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +51.79%
75th Percentile £91,250 £86,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £87,250 -
North East median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.63% +18.52% +20.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 425 1,281 754
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.51% 96.53% 81.43%
Number of salaries quoted 308 1,070 465
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £38,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,820 £76,900
North East median annual salary £47,750 £47,500 £47,672
% change year-on-year +0.53% -0.36% +19.18%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 3 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +43 2 £80,000 +6.67% 4
Senior Data Engineer
North East

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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