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 125,327
✏️ This salary info is based on 1562 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average mid-level / intermediate Data Engineer salary lies between USD 99,800 and USD 164,000 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
- 1562
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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 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 | 3149 jobs SQL | 3110 jobs Python | 3054 jobs Pipelines | 2908 jobs ETL | 2341 jobs Data pipelines | 2242 jobs AWS | 1923 jobs Computer Science | 1800 jobs Architecture | 1749 jobs Azure | 1648 jobs Security | 1537 jobs Data quality | 1428 jobs Spark | 1362 jobs Agile | 1214 jobs Big Data | 1160 jobs Machine Learning | 1157 jobs Databricks | 1135 jobs Snowflake | 1037 jobs GCP | 1024 jobs Airflow | 1023 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 | 2360 jobs Health care | 1323 jobs Flex hours | 905 jobs Competitive pay | 764 jobs Startup environment | 761 jobs Team events | 694 jobs Insurance | 579 jobs Equity / stock options | 547 jobs Salary bonus | 505 jobs Flex vacation | 501 jobs Parental leave | 449 jobs Medical leave | 389 jobs Wellness | 333 jobs 401(k) matching | 325 jobs Relocation support | 147 jobs Fitness / gym | 140 jobs Transparency | 119 jobs Gear | 102 jobs Conferences | 90 jobs Home office stipend | 90 jobsRelated salaries
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