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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 - $324,400Based on 48 jobs

Salary Breakdown

Compensation statistics for Data Engineer roles

$60,320

Minimum

$171,563

Median

$181,340

Average

$324,400

Maximum

$60,320Median: $171,563$324,400

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
$60K44 jobs$275K
big data
$158Kmedian
$60K9 jobs$243K
data warehousing
$157Kmedian
$118K7 jobs$225K
arcgis
$110Kmedian
$103K5 jobs$158K
GIS
$110Kmedian
$103K5 jobs$158K

Salary by Experience

Mid Level
$146Kmedian
$60K12 jobs$300K
Senior
$171Kmedian
$103K24 jobs$243K
Staff/Principal
$227Kmedian
$171K12 jobs$275K

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