Data Engineer Salary in United States during 2025
💰 The median Data Engineer Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 150,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 5272 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Data Engineer salary lies between USD 115,800 and USD 185,000 in the United States. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.
- Job title
- Data Engineer
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- United States
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 5272
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Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.
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Top 20 Job Tags for Data Engineer roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with Data Engineer job listings are Engineering, Python and SQL. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:
Engineering | 13386 jobs Python | 13001 jobs SQL | 12892 jobs Pipelines | 12218 jobs ETL | 9417 jobs Data pipelines | 9288 jobs AWS | 8468 jobs Architecture | 8220 jobs Azure | 7035 jobs Computer Science | 7034 jobs Spark | 6779 jobs Security | 6463 jobs Data quality | 5831 jobs Agile | 5492 jobs Big Data | 5419 jobs Machine Learning | 5099 jobs Databricks | 4854 jobs GCP | 4820 jobs Snowflake | 4689 jobs CI/CD | 4585 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Data Engineer roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Data Engineer job listings are Career development, Health care and Flex hours. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:
Career development | 10129 jobs Health care | 5422 jobs Flex hours | 4003 jobs Competitive pay | 3325 jobs Startup environment | 3131 jobs Team events | 2767 jobs Equity / stock options | 2537 jobs Salary bonus | 2442 jobs Insurance | 2333 jobs Flex vacation | 2162 jobs Parental leave | 1855 jobs Medical leave | 1631 jobs Wellness | 1363 jobs 401(k) matching | 1155 jobs Transparency | 545 jobs Fitness / gym | 539 jobs Relocation support | 486 jobs Gear | 400 jobs Conferences | 376 jobs Home office stipend | 366 jobsRelated salaries
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