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 119,687
✏️ This salary info is based on 36 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average mid-level / intermediate Data Engineer salary lies between USD 99,285 and USD 130,000 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
- 36
- Top 10%
-
- Top 25%
-
- Median
-
- Bottom 25%
-
- Bottom 10%
-
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 | 3633 jobs SQL | 3580 jobs Python | 3499 jobs Pipelines | 3358 jobs ETL | 2712 jobs Data pipelines | 2588 jobs AWS | 2206 jobs Computer Science | 2059 jobs Architecture | 2014 jobs Azure | 1886 jobs Security | 1780 jobs Data quality | 1658 jobs Spark | 1554 jobs Agile | 1377 jobs Big Data | 1327 jobs Machine Learning | 1319 jobs Databricks | 1294 jobs Snowflake | 1178 jobs Airflow | 1174 jobs GCP | 1162 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 | 2695 jobs Health care | 1522 jobs Flex hours | 1030 jobs Startup environment | 877 jobs Competitive pay | 874 jobs Team events | 799 jobs Insurance | 665 jobs Equity / stock options | 625 jobs Salary bonus | 586 jobs Flex vacation | 571 jobs Parental leave | 518 jobs Medical leave | 443 jobs Wellness | 382 jobs 401(k) matching | 374 jobs Relocation support | 162 jobs Fitness / gym | 159 jobs Transparency | 136 jobs Gear | 118 jobs Home office stipend | 102 jobs Conferences | 96 jobsRelated salaries
Want to contribute?
📝 Submit your salary info
Enter your own salary data for the current or past work year. It's quite simple and doesn't take more than a minute to fill out.
Go to salary survey📢 Share our salary survey
Share our "in-less-than-a-minute survey" with others working in the field of AI, ML, Data Science. The more data we have the better for everyone.
💾 Download the data
All collected information will be updated into a public dataset regularly and provided as a download free for anyone to use.
Go to download page🚀 Search for jobs & talent
If you're thinking about a career change or want to hire fresh talent quickly check out the jobs page.
Go to frontpageAbout this project
We collect salary information anonymously from professionals and employers all over the world and make it publicly available for anyone to use, share and play around with.
Our goal is to have open salary data for everyone. So newbies, experienced pros, hiring managers, recruiters and also startup founders or people wanting to switch careers can make better decisions.