Data Infrastructure Engineer Salary in 2025

💰 The median Data Infrastructure Engineer Salary in 2025 is USD 172,500

✏️ This salary info is based on 10 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Data Infrastructure Engineer salary lies between USD 130,000 and USD 225,600 globally. 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 Infrastructure Engineer
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
10
Top 10%
$ 240,000
Top 25%
$ 225,600
Median
$ 172,500
Bottom 25%
$ 130,000
Bottom 10%
$ 63,157

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Data Infrastructure Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Data Infrastructure Engineer job listings are Python, AWS and Pipelines. 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:

Python | 9 jobs AWS | 9 jobs Pipelines | 9 jobs Engineering | 8 jobs Terraform | 7 jobs Kubernetes | 6 jobs Machine Learning | 5 jobs Spark | 5 jobs SQL | 5 jobs Airflow | 5 jobs Data pipelines | 5 jobs CI/CD | 5 jobs Kafka | 4 jobs Security | 4 jobs Testing | 4 jobs Architecture | 4 jobs Streaming | 4 jobs Research | 3 jobs Flink | 3 jobs PostgreSQL | 3 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Data Infrastructure Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Data Infrastructure Engineer job listings are Career development, Startup environment and Health care. 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 | 5 jobs Startup environment | 5 jobs Health care | 3 jobs Equity / stock options | 2 jobs Competitive pay | 2 jobs Team events | 2 jobs Wellness | 1 jobs Relocation support | 1 jobs Insurance | 1 jobs Salary bonus | 1 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 1 jobs

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