Salary for Mid-level / Intermediate Data Engineer in United States during 2025
💰 The median Salary for Mid-level / Intermediate Data Engineer in United States during 2025 is USD 130,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 380 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average mid-level / intermediate Data Engineer salary lies between USD 100,000 and USD 166,000 in the United States. 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
- United States
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 380
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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.
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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 | 666 jobs Engineering | 651 jobs Python | 630 jobs Pipelines | 599 jobs ETL | 488 jobs Data pipelines | 459 jobs AWS | 385 jobs Computer Science | 372 jobs Architecture | 353 jobs Azure | 342 jobs Security | 312 jobs Data quality | 288 jobs Machine Learning | 272 jobs Spark | 272 jobs Agile | 268 jobs Big Data | 247 jobs Databricks | 234 jobs GCP | 229 jobs Snowflake | 228 jobs Testing | 225 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 | 519 jobs Health care | 309 jobs Flex hours | 183 jobs Startup environment | 168 jobs Competitive pay | 159 jobs Team events | 144 jobs Insurance | 141 jobs Equity / stock options | 132 jobs Salary bonus | 104 jobs Flex vacation | 103 jobs Parental leave | 91 jobs Medical leave | 78 jobs 401(k) matching | 75 jobs Wellness | 72 jobs Fitness / gym | 38 jobs Relocation support | 28 jobs Transparency | 25 jobs Gear | 21 jobs Flexible spending account | 20 jobs Conferences | 19 jobsRelated salaries
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