Salary for Mid-level / Intermediate Data Engineer during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Mid-level / Intermediate Data Engineer during 2025 is USD 120,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 819 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average mid-level / intermediate Data Engineer salary lies between USD 88,000 and USD 156,000 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 Engineer
Experience
Mid-level / Intermediate
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
819
Top 10%
$ 193,400
Top 25%
$ 156,000
Median
$ 120,000
Bottom 25%
$ 88,000
Bottom 10%
$ 65,000

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 Mid-level / Intermediate Data Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with mid-level / intermediate Data Engineer job listings are SQL, Engineering and Python. 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:

SQL | 1388 jobs Engineering | 1360 jobs Python | 1322 jobs Pipelines | 1254 jobs ETL | 1037 jobs Data pipelines | 961 jobs AWS | 856 jobs Computer Science | 765 jobs Architecture | 759 jobs Azure | 707 jobs Security | 683 jobs Data quality | 605 jobs Spark | 600 jobs Agile | 548 jobs Machine Learning | 543 jobs Big Data | 525 jobs Databricks | 490 jobs GCP | 460 jobs Testing | 452 jobs Snowflake | 443 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Mid-level / Intermediate Data Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with mid-level / intermediate 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 | 1058 jobs Health care | 606 jobs Flex hours | 391 jobs Startup environment | 316 jobs Competitive pay | 309 jobs Team events | 309 jobs Insurance | 291 jobs Equity / stock options | 253 jobs Salary bonus | 215 jobs Flex vacation | 209 jobs Parental leave | 196 jobs Medical leave | 176 jobs 401(k) matching | 159 jobs Wellness | 142 jobs Fitness / gym | 70 jobs Relocation support | 65 jobs Gear | 49 jobs Transparency | 49 jobs Home office stipend | 41 jobs Conferences | 39 jobs

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