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Data Engineer Salary
Data Engineers design and build data pipelines and infrastructure. They ensure data is accessible, reliable, and optimized for analytics and ML workloads.
$60,320 - $610,000Based on 49 jobs
Salary Breakdown
Compensation statistics for Data Engineer roles
$60,320
Minimum
$172,000
Median
$187,742
Average
$610,000
Maximum
$60,320Median: $172,000$610,000
Shaded area represents the 25th to 75th percentile range
Data Engineer Salary Trend
$205,765$171,325$136,885
Dec 2025
$146,725
16 jobs
Jan 2026
$195,925
54 jobs
Feb 2026
$170,975
32 jobs
DecFeb
Median monthly salary trend derived from job listings in the last 6 months
Top Skills for Data Engineers
LLM
$210Kmedian
$157K5 jobs$230K
BigQuery
$207Kmedian
$118K11 jobs$249K
tableau
$183Kmedian
$141K8 jobs$249K
SnowFlake
$175Kmedian
$118K8 jobs$270K
python
$171Kmedian
$60K45 jobs$495K
big data
$168Kmedian
$60K10 jobs$495K
data warehousing
$157Kmedian
$118K7 jobs$225K
arcgis
$110Kmedian
$103K5 jobs$158K
GIS
$110Kmedian
$103K5 jobs$158K
Salary by Experience
Mid Level
$158Kmedian
$60K13 jobs$495K
Senior
$171Kmedian
$103K24 jobs$243K
Staff/Principal
$227Kmedian
$171K12 jobs$275K
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Latest Data Engineer Jobs with Salaries
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Visa
20 hours ago
Staff Data Engineer
Bellevue, WA
$132K - $210K/yr
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Visa
2 days ago
Principal Data Engineer Lead
Bellevue, WA
$173K - $277K/yr
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Salesforce
3 days ago
Software Engineer (Big Data/Data Engineering) - Senior/Lead
San Francisco, CA
$173K - $314K/yr
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Yahoo
3 days ago
Data Engineer II
United States
$111K - $231K/yr
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Twilio
6 days ago
Principal Machine Learning & Data Engineer
Remote
United States$185K - $231K/yr
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Paradigm
7 days ago
Senior Data Engineer - Implementation
Remote
United States$150K - $165K/yr
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