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 125,880
✏️ This salary info is based on 1760 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average mid-level / intermediate Data Engineer salary lies between USD 100,000 and USD 165,000 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
- 1760
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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 | 3563 jobs SQL | 3522 jobs Python | 3439 jobs Pipelines | 3298 jobs ETL | 2666 jobs Data pipelines | 2539 jobs AWS | 2166 jobs Computer Science | 2020 jobs Architecture | 1981 jobs Azure | 1858 jobs Security | 1749 jobs Data quality | 1625 jobs Spark | 1523 jobs Agile | 1354 jobs Big Data | 1301 jobs Machine Learning | 1292 jobs Databricks | 1273 jobs Snowflake | 1161 jobs Airflow | 1152 jobs GCP | 1139 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 | 2649 jobs Health care | 1496 jobs Flex hours | 1017 jobs Competitive pay | 862 jobs Startup environment | 856 jobs Team events | 786 jobs Insurance | 655 jobs Equity / stock options | 617 jobs Salary bonus | 576 jobs Flex vacation | 567 jobs Parental leave | 513 jobs Medical leave | 436 jobs Wellness | 375 jobs 401(k) matching | 369 jobs Relocation support | 158 jobs Fitness / gym | 157 jobs Transparency | 136 jobs Gear | 118 jobs Home office stipend | 101 jobs Conferences | 95 jobsRelated salaries
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