600 live roles · 237 fully remote · freshest first

Data Engineer jobs

Live data engineer openings from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source. What the role pays, across markets and seniority: data engineer salary.

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What 600 postings say

Computed from the live board on the date of the nightly build · 124 added in the last 7 days · median listing is 19 days old.

Seniority	Live roles	State pay	Posted band
Entry	21	—	—
Untagged (mid)	293	41	$71k–$148k
Senior / lead	286	67	$120k–$188k

Seniority is read from posting titles; roles with no level in the title are counted as mid. Bands cover only postings that state pay, and only where five or more do.

Skills named most

ETL70%
SQL63%
Python56%
Data Analysis53%
Data Engineering46%
Spark39%
AWS34%
dbt33%

Share of postings naming each skill, from the posting text itself.

Hiring the most right now

Bluelight13
AgileEngine12
Name9
Experian7
FullStack5
Xebiacee5

Routes into data engineer

The measured pivots that lead here, ranked by how much of the destination a typical origin profile already covers.

Data Architect → Data Engineer47% readiness
Data Analyst → Data Engineer31% readiness

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Quick answers

How many data engineer jobs are open right now?

Right now there are 600 data engineer openings on our board, and 124 of them arrived in the last seven days. 237 of them are fully remote (remote data engineer jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

How much do data engineer jobs pay?

108 of the 600 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $100k to $184k a year. We only count postings that state pay, so this is what employers are advertising today, not an estimate. For the fuller picture by seniority and market, see the data engineer salary page.

What skills do data engineer postings ask for?

The three skills data engineer postings name most often are ETL (70% of postings), SQL (63%) and Python (56%). Those percentages are simply how many of the postings we read mention each one, so you can see which are near-universal and which are nice to have. Every skill, defined: the glossary.

Can I move into data engineer work from an adjacent role?

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 2 measured routes lead into data engineer work. The closest is from data architect: a typical data architect profile already covers 47% of what data engineer postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.

Listings backfilled from re-displayable sources (company career pages, remote-job boards, and public-sector postings), freshest first, refreshed with the nightly scrape. Each links out to apply at the original posting; PivotHop does not host applications. Salary shown where the posting states it.