Salary for Mid-level / Intermediate Data Engineer in Australia during 2025
💰 The median Salary for Mid-level / Intermediate Data Engineer in Australia during 2025 is USD 124,027
✏️ This salary info is based on 32 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average mid-level / intermediate Data Engineer salary lies between USD 101,858 and USD 130,514 in Australia. 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
- Australia
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 32
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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.
Last updated: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 Engineering, SQL 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:
Engineering | 3176 jobs SQL | 3138 jobs Python | 3074 jobs Pipelines | 2931 jobs ETL | 2360 jobs Data pipelines | 2259 jobs AWS | 1938 jobs Computer Science | 1812 jobs Architecture | 1763 jobs Azure | 1669 jobs Security | 1544 jobs Data quality | 1438 jobs Spark | 1374 jobs Agile | 1220 jobs Big Data | 1173 jobs Machine Learning | 1164 jobs Databricks | 1148 jobs Snowflake | 1041 jobs Airflow | 1035 jobs GCP | 1035 jobsTop 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 | 2377 jobs Health care | 1334 jobs Flex hours | 912 jobs Competitive pay | 773 jobs Startup environment | 765 jobs Team events | 698 jobs Insurance | 581 jobs Equity / stock options | 551 jobs Salary bonus | 509 jobs Flex vacation | 506 jobs Parental leave | 457 jobs Medical leave | 391 jobs Wellness | 333 jobs 401(k) matching | 327 jobs Relocation support | 147 jobs Fitness / gym | 142 jobs Transparency | 120 jobs Gear | 102 jobs Home office stipend | 92 jobs Conferences | 90 jobsRelated salaries
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