Data Specialist Salary in 2025

💰 The median Data Specialist Salary in 2025 is USD 71,200

✏️ This salary info is based on 508 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Data Specialist salary lies between USD 54,000 and USD 98,600 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 Specialist
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
508
Top 10%
$ 139,000
Top 25%
$ 98,600
Median
$ 71,200
Bottom 25%
$ 54,000
Bottom 10%
$ 42,000

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 Research. 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 | 605 jobs Data management | 459 jobs Research | 376 jobs Data quality | 365 jobs SQL | 349 jobs Data analysis | 298 jobs Engineering | 293 jobs Python | 284 jobs Security | 249 jobs Finance | 245 jobs Power BI | 230 jobs Testing | 224 jobs Statistics | 204 jobs Data governance | 177 jobs Privacy | 173 jobs R | 166 jobs Computer Science | 151 jobs Data Analytics | 132 jobs Tableau | 127 jobs KPIs | 110 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 | 705 jobs Health care | 488 jobs Flex hours | 365 jobs Competitive pay | 298 jobs Insurance | 223 jobs Startup environment | 221 jobs Team events | 218 jobs Flex vacation | 186 jobs Equity / stock options | 171 jobs Salary bonus | 164 jobs Parental leave | 119 jobs Medical leave | 118 jobs 401(k) matching | 96 jobs Wellness | 95 jobs Relocation support | 68 jobs Transparency | 51 jobs Fitness / gym | 30 jobs Gear | 29 jobs Conferences | 25 jobs Flexible spending account | 22 jobs

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Data Specialist @ $ 53,311 (Netherlands) Details
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Data Specialist @ $ 45,857 (Canada) Details
Data Specialist @ $ 42,050 (Austria) Details

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