Writing a data engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 2,789 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: 2,789
Employers: 1,162
Remote: 17%
Typical pay: $99k–223k
Verified live (7d): 2,430

What they ask for

Counted across 1,486 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python69%
Amazon Web Services56%
ETL56%
Databricks41%
Microsoft Azure41%
Apache Spark31%
Snowflake30%
Apache Airflow29%
Google Cloud Platform27%
dbt23%
Apache Kafka22%
Amazon Redshift17%
Amazon Data Pipeline15%
Oracle Java15%

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

Booz Allen Hamilton_United States71
capitalone.wd12.capital_one63
Accenture do Brasil Ltda Company60
Genpact India Pvt. Ltd.44
Barclays Global Serv. Cent37
Sopra Steria21
Exadel20
CapTech Consulting16
Devoteam15
Blend36013
Cisco Systems, Inc.12
Commonwealth Bank of Australia11

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