Writing a data engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 1,312 live data engineer postings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,312
Employers: 649
Remote: 20%
Typical pay: $107k–220k
Verified live (7d): 1,040

What they ask for

Counted across 1,298 of the most recent 1,312 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python65%
ETL59%
Amazon Web Services53%
Databricks39%
Microsoft Azure38%
Apache Airflow31%
Google Cloud Platform28%
Snowflake28%
Apache Spark27%
dbt26%
Apache Kafka23%
Amazon Redshift17%
BigQuery16%
Amazon Data Pipeline16%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Accenture do Brasil Ltda Company76
Blend36043
CapTech Consulting32
Inetum28
Amgen Mexico S.A. de C.V.18
Booz Allen Hamilton_United States16
Tieto16
Endava15
Artefact10
Pennsylvania CVS Pharmacy, L.L.C.9
Devoteam8
Talan8

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