Data Specialist Salary in 2025

💰 The median Data Specialist Salary in 2025 is USD 65,381

✏️ This salary info is based on 188 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Data Specialist salary lies between USD 50,300 and USD 88,000 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 Specialist
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
188
Top 10%
$ 118,150
Top 25%
$ 88,000
Median
$ 65,381
Bottom 25%
$ 50,300
Bottom 10%
$ 36,000

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 Specialist roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Data Specialist job listings are Excel, Data management and Data quality. 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:

Excel | 234 jobs Data management | 190 jobs Data quality | 153 jobs Research | 151 jobs Data analysis | 125 jobs SQL | 121 jobs Python | 107 jobs Finance | 107 jobs Engineering | 98 jobs Statistics | 88 jobs Security | 80 jobs Power BI | 79 jobs Testing | 78 jobs Data governance | 78 jobs Computer Science | 65 jobs Privacy | 64 jobs R | 59 jobs Data Analytics | 54 jobs Mathematics | 50 jobs Tableau | 42 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Data Specialist roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Data Specialist 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 | 278 jobs Health care | 180 jobs Flex hours | 139 jobs Competitive pay | 117 jobs Team events | 91 jobs Startup environment | 89 jobs Insurance | 80 jobs Equity / stock options | 77 jobs Flex vacation | 65 jobs Salary bonus | 65 jobs Parental leave | 44 jobs Medical leave | 43 jobs 401(k) matching | 36 jobs Wellness | 33 jobs Transparency | 16 jobs Relocation support | 15 jobs Gear | 13 jobs Fitness / gym | 10 jobs Conferences | 10 jobs Home office stipend | 8 jobs

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