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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

data engineering

345 live US technical postings name data engineering in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 345 postings naming data engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer24.9%
  2. 2Software Engineer23.2%
  3. 3Data Scientist20.6%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer12.2%
  5. 5AI Engineer9.3%
  6. 6Data Analyst3.8%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.5%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer1.7%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where data engineering is named
n = 176
10th
$132k
25th
$155k
Median
$190k
75th
$222k
90th
$273k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA17.4%
  2. 2Remote13.3%
  3. 3New York, NY11.3%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.4%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.8%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.2%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.6%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.3%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.