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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

data pipelines

653 live US technical postings name data pipelines 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 653 postings naming data pipelines that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer37.8%
  2. 2Data Engineer21%
  3. 3Data Scientist11.8%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer9.5%
  5. 5AI Engineer6.1%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5.1%
  7. 7Data Analyst3.1%
  8. 8Backend Engineer2.5%

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 pipelines is named
n = 86
10th
$149k
25th
$160k
Median
$189k
75th
$222k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA17.3%
  2. 2New York, NY14.2%
  3. 3Remote14.1%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA10.7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA3.4%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.6%
  7. 7Washington, DC2.5%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.1%

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.