Writing a data engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 2,395 live data engineerpostings, 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: 2,395
Employers: 1,065
Remote: 18%
Typical pay: $104k–225k
Verified live (7d): 2,123

What they ask for

Counted across 1,478 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python71%
Amazon Web Services56%
ETL53%
Databricks39%
Microsoft Azure37%
Apache Airflow36%
Snowflake31%
Google Cloud Platform30%
dbt29%
Apache Spark28%
Apache Kafka23%
Amazon Redshift18%
BigQuery16%
Amazon Data Pipeline15%

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 Company65
capitalone.wd12.capital_one57
Booz Allen Hamilton_United States50
Blend36047
Amgen Mexico S.A. de C.V.44
CapTech Consulting32
Inetum28
Tieto27
Barclays Global Serv. Cent27
Genpact India Pvt. Ltd.21
Exadel20
Endava15

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