---
title: "Data Engineer job postings: what employers ask for (2026)"
description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/data-engineer"
canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/postings/data-engineer
last_updated: 2026-09-10
---

# Data Engineer job postings: what employers ask for (2026)

> Live data engineer job postings measured from JobsPipe's index: 11.3% remote, 20.8% disclose pay, seniority mix, top skills and the industries hiring. Shares only, reproducible through the API.

**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/data-engineer

This page reads every active posting whose normalized title is Data Engineer across the ten boards JobsPipe collects and reports what those employers ask for: the seniority they target, whether the role is remote, whether pay is disclosed, the skills named in the text, and the industries, countries and company sizes behind the postings.

11.3% of these postings are marked remote, 20.8% state a salary or range, the most common seniority label is senior at 24.1%. Postings with no seniority label are counted in the denominator, so the seniority shares do not sum to one.

## Headline shares

- **Remote:** 11.3%
- **Pay disclosed:** 20.8%

## Seniority stated in the posting

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Entry level | 5.5% |
| Mid level | 4.6% |
| Senior | 24.1% |
| Lead or manager | 3.8% |
| Executive | 0.7% |

## Skills named in the text (top twelve)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| data-engineering | 88.6% |
| sql | 77.1% |
| etl | 74.2% |
| python | 73.0% |
| data-governance | 46.8% |
| aws | 43.9% |
| azure | 40.1% |
| ci/cd | 34.4% |
| databricks | 34.1% |
| communication | 31.0% |
| data-modeling | 29.9% |
| apache-spark | 29.5% |

## Job function

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Data & Analytics | 57.1% |
| Information Technology | 21.7% |
| Engineering | 14.6% |
| Engineering and Information Technology | 1.0% |
| Consulting | 0.8% |
| Strategy/Planning, Analyst, and Information Technology | 0.7% |
| Other | 0.7% |

## Employer industry (ISIC division)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Software and IT services | 18.8% |
| Financial services | 5.9% |
| Employment and staffing | 4.7% |
| Retail trade | 3.5% |
| Head offices and consulting | 2.2% |
| Information services | 1.7% |
| Legal and accounting | 1.3% |
| Scientific R&D | 1.1% |

## Country

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 30.2% |
| India | 14.4% |
| France | 10.8% |
| Brazil | 9.3% |
| Germany | 3.5% |
| Mexico | 3.3% |
| Singapore | 3.1% |
| Canada | 2.9% |

## Employer size, where known

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| 1-50 employees | 3.1% |
| 51-200 employees | 4.8% |
| 201-1000 employees | 6.4% |
| 1000+ employees | 25.9% |

## Employment type

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Full-time | 76.4% |
| Contract | 4.4% |
| Part-time | 0.6% |

## Method

Denominator: active postings on the ten collected boards, grouped by canonical title (deduplicated by posting id). Counted on 2026-09-09. Postings are deduplicated by id, filtered to those not yet recorded as closed, and grouped on the field named in each heading. Only shares are published.

Reproduce the underlying rows:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"status":"active","limit":25,"job_title_or":["data engineer"]}'
```

## FAQ

### What share of data engineer job postings are remote?

11.3% of the active postings on this page carry a remote flag. The flag is read from the posting itself, so hybrid roles that never say remote are counted as on-site. Filter the API with remote set to true and the same scope to reproduce the figure.

### How many data engineer postings disclose salary?

20.8% state a salary or a range in the posting text or structured fields. Disclosure varies more by board and by jurisdiction than by role, so compare the figure with the board-level shares on the sources pages before reading it as a market signal.

### Which skills appear most in data engineer postings?

The most named skills are data-engineering (88.6%), sql (77.1%), etl (74.2%), python (73.0%), data-governance (46.8%). Skills are extracted from the posting text against a curated lexicon, and a posting counts once per skill it names, so the shares overlap.

### Which industries hire the most data engineer roles?

By ISIC division, the largest shares are Software and IT services (18.8%), Financial services (5.9%), Employment and staffing (4.7%). Industry is resolved from the employer's classification where known, and postings without a classification are excluded from this cut.

### Which functions are employers in Data Engineer hiring for?

The largest functions by share of postings are Data & Analytics (57.1%), Information Technology (21.7%), Engineering (14.6%), Engineering and Information Technology (1.0%). Function is assigned from the normalized title and the posting text.

### Where do these numbers come from?

From JobsPipe's live index of postings on the ten boards it collects, deduplicated by posting id and counted on 2026-09-09. Only shares are published; the underlying counts stay private. Every figure can be reproduced against the JobsPipe API with the filters shown on this page.

## More postings profiles

- [Registered Nurse](https://jobspipe.dev/postings/registered-nurse)
- [Delivery Driver](https://jobspipe.dev/postings/delivery-driver)
- [Assistant Manager](https://jobspipe.dev/postings/assistant-manager)
- [Software Engineer](https://jobspipe.dev/postings/software-engineer)
- [Truck Driver](https://jobspipe.dev/postings/truck-driver)
- [Sales Associate](https://jobspipe.dev/postings/sales-associate)


---
AI agents: the full machine-readable index of this site is https://jobspipe.dev/llms.txt?src=md-twin - API quickstart, no-key sandbox (POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search), MCP server, pricing. Free key: https://jobspipe.dev/signup