Big Data

Big Data turns data into models, decisions, or dependable data products.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $0 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $6,166 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 143 Last 3 months
Applications per job 0.4 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Data Engineer proxy + Data family
$3,780 Data Engineer median
+20% Data candidates · year on year

Hiring Clarify whether the job owns analysis, modelling, infrastructure, or all three.

Candidate Show a business decision or production outcome created by your data work.

Data Data Engineer proxy, not an exact Big Data or DBA median. Djinni Data category combines analysts, scientists, and engineers.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 187 respondents
Role family
Lower quartile$2650
Median$4000
Upper quartile$5950
Year over year +4.1%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

Data and big-data engineers · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Python 59 $2955–$4687 SQL 55 $2555–$3940 Apache Spark 45 $4650–$5644 AWS 26 $3625–$5292 Databricks 25 $3868–$5908 Scala 21 $4846–$5968 PySpark 19 $4498–$5516 Apache Airflow 17 $4550–$5127 Kafka 17 $3311–$5085 CI/CD 15 $2868–$4754 Kubernetes 15 $3619–$5424 Azure 14 $2839–$4634 Data Modeling 13 $3178–$4764 ETL 13 $3097–$4509 Data Software Engineering 12 $3483–$6000 Hive 10 $4500–$5500 Airflow 9 $3956–$5045

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Data salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Data roles on Djinni Published signal ·