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Data Engineer salary
The median salary in Data Engineer job ads that pay in USD is $192,000 a year (about $16,000 a month before tax). The middle half of those ads list $156,200 to $241,750, based on 75 salaries from 50 employers, updated 22 Oct 2026.
Range in job ads
$156,200–$241,750
Median in job ads: $192,000 / year
Based on 75 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 22 Oct 2026
How these figures are built →Analyze my salary →- Median in job ads
- $192,000
- a year
- 12-month range
- High $218,500
- Aug 2026
- Low $181,300 · Sep 2026
- Salaries
- 75
- from 50 employers
- Last updated
- 22 Oct 2026
- 12-month window to 22 Oct 2026
Salary range
Where listed pay sits
- 10th percentile
- $131,273
- 25th percentile
- $156,200
- Median
- $192,000
- 75th percentile
- $241,750
- 90th percentile
- $294,599
Box: the middle half of salaries · line: the median · whisker: 10th to 90th percentile.
Salary by place
Data Engineer salary by city
Cities with at least 8 salaries listed in USD. Each place is its own group of salaries in one currency. Places in another currency are listed separately, never converted.
Skills and pay
Skills linked to higher Data Engineer pay
How much higher or lower the median is for job posts that mention a skill. It shows an association, not a guarantee: better-paid jobs often bundle several scarce skills with senior scope. Skills with fewer than 8 salaries are left out.
| Skill | Pay premium chart | Pay premium |
|---|---|---|
| recruitmentmedian $215,125 · 12 salaries | up +12.0% | |
| financemedian $208,125 · 17 salaries | up +8.4% | |
| javamedian $207,485 · 13 salaries | up +8.1% | |
| aimedian $192,000 · 57 salaries | flat 0.0% | |
| pythonmedian $190,000 · 61 salaries | down −1.0% | |
| terraformmedian $190,000 · 15 salaries | down −1.0% | |
| sqlmedian $182,500 · 58 salaries | down −4.9% | |
| warehousemedian $177,500 · 27 salaries | down −7.6% |
Pay listed by employers
Latest Data Engineer jobs that show their pay
Pay as the employer wrote it, per year: individual job posts, not averages.
- Data Engineer III-6348itD Tech · posted 17 Oct 2026from $101,920
- Data Engineer, Billing & PaymentsAnthropic · Senior level · posted 17 Oct 2026$320,000 – $405,000
- Data Engineer, ProductAnthropic · Senior level · posted 17 Oct 2026$320,000 – $405,000
- Data Engineer, GTMAnthropic · Senior level · posted 17 Oct 2026$320,000 – $405,000
- Recruiting Analytics Data EngineerAnthropic · Senior level · posted 17 Oct 2026$285,000 – $380,000
Evidence
Where these numbers come from
75 salaries from 50 employers, posted between 22 Oct 2025 and 22 Oct 2026. Last updated 22 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page comes from this one group of salaries; the median is the middle value, not the average.
- Employer hiring-system feeds 80%
- Pay read from posting text 9%
- Other sources 11%
Live jobs
Data Engineer jobs
Data Engineer – Informatica IDMC & ETL Development
Canada - Toronto
C$118K – C$152K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Infrastructure & Data Engineer
Portugal
€55K – €75K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Data Engineer
New York, New York, United States
$150K – $175K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Senior Staff Data Engineer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
$275K – $450K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Data Engineer III-6348
San Jose
$156.2K – $241.8K/yr
Jobiba market estimate · high confidence
Data Engineer, Product
San Francisco, NY | Seattle
$320K – $405K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Recruiting Analytics Data Engineer
San Francisco, NY | Seattle
$285K – $380K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Data Engineer, GTM
San Francisco, NY
$320K – $405K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
How Jobiba calculates this
Real postings first, estimates second
- • Uses salary-listed Jobiba job posts from the last 12 months, including posts that have since closed.
- • A post counts only when it states a salary, a currency and a pay period.
- • Hourly, daily, weekly and monthly pay becomes a yearly figure; no currency is converted or mixed.
- • Impossible values and extreme outliers are removed, and title variants are grouped into one role.
- • Reports the median (the middle value, not the average) and the middle half, only when enough posts back them.
- • Pay Jobiba works out for a job without a stated salary is labelled a Jobiba estimate, never shown as employer-provided pay.
Based on 75 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 22 Oct 2026
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Frequently asked questions
Data Engineer salary: common questions
What is the average Data Engineer salary in 2026?
Job ads for Data Engineer on Jobiba list a median salary of $192,000 a year, based on 75 salary-listed job postings. The middle half of those job ads pay between $156,200 and $241,750 a year (25th to 75th percentile).
How does Jobiba calculate Data Engineer salary?
From 75 salary-listed Jobiba job postings from the last 12 months that state an explicit salary, currency and pay period. Hourly, daily and monthly pay is converted to an annual figure, implausible values and outliers are removed, and currencies are never mixed or converted. Jobiba publishes the median and 25th–75th percentile range only when enough comparable postings exist.