Data Engineer jobs

Right now there are 988 data engineer openings on our board, and 108 of them arrived in the last seven days. 341 of them are fully remote (remote data engineer jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

186 of the 988 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $108k to $188k 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.

The three skills data engineer postings name most often are ETL (72% of postings), SQL (66%) and Python (61%). 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.

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.