Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Specialist during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Specialist during 2025 is USD 101,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 64 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Data Specialist salary lies between USD 62,000 and USD 129,753 globally. 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 Specialist
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
64
Top 10%
$ 199,001
Top 25%
$ 129,753
Median
$ 101,000
Bottom 25%
$ 62,000
Bottom 10%
$ 39,410

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Senior-level / Expert Data Specialist roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Data Specialist job listings are SQL, Python and Data management. 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 | 66 jobs Python | 52 jobs Data management | 52 jobs Excel | 49 jobs Engineering | 47 jobs Data quality | 47 jobs Data analysis | 34 jobs Research | 33 jobs Testing | 30 jobs Security | 28 jobs Power BI | 27 jobs Computer Science | 26 jobs Data governance | 26 jobs Finance | 24 jobs Statistics | 24 jobs ETL | 23 jobs R | 22 jobs Architecture | 18 jobs Tableau | 17 jobs Data Analytics | 17 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Data Specialist roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Data Specialist 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 | 76 jobs Health care | 48 jobs Flex hours | 42 jobs Competitive pay | 35 jobs Flex vacation | 28 jobs Team events | 28 jobs Equity / stock options | 24 jobs Insurance | 21 jobs Parental leave | 19 jobs Startup environment | 19 jobs Salary bonus | 17 jobs Wellness | 11 jobs Transparency | 10 jobs Medical leave | 10 jobs 401(k) matching | 8 jobs Gear | 7 jobs Relocation support | 4 jobs Fitness / gym | 3 jobs Yoga | 3 jobs Conferences | 2 jobs

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