Writing a data engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 2,259 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: 2,259
Employers: 1,014
Remote: 18%
Typical pay: $106k–225k
Verified live (7d): 2,025

What they ask for

Counted across 1,484 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%
ETL56%
Amazon Web Services55%
Databricks39%
Microsoft Azure39%
Apache Airflow33%
Snowflake31%
Apache Spark30%
Google Cloud Platform29%
dbt27%
Apache Kafka22%
Amazon Redshift19%
Amazon Data Pipeline15%
BigQuery15%

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
Blend36046
Booz Allen Hamilton_United States46
Amgen Mexico S.A. de C.V.41
CapTech Consulting32
Inetum28
Barclays Global Serv. Cent22
Tieto21
Genpact India Pvt. Ltd.20
Exadel16
Endava15

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