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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

data engineering

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 299 postings naming data engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer34.1%
  2. 2Software Engineer27.8%
  3. 3Data Scientist16.7%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer11.7%
  5. 5AI Engineer4.7%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.7%
  7. 7Security Engineer1%

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

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 27 of these postings state one. We would rather show nothing than a median built on a handful of rows.

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote15.1%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA15.1%
  3. 3New York, NY10.7%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.7%
  5. 5Austin, TX3.3%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.3%
  7. 7Boston, MA2%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.