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 141 Last 3 months
Applications per job 0.5 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 47 $2949–$4669 SQL 45 $2550–$3953 Apache Spark 40 $4624–$5616 AWS 22 $3576–$5291 Databricks 19 $3814–$5852 Scala 18 $4779–$6062 Apache Airflow 17 $4322–$5000 Kubernetes 15 $3579–$5418 PySpark 15 $4147–$5645 Data Modeling 14 $3128–$4769 Kafka 13 $3281–$5064 CI/CD 12 $2810–$4738 Azure 11 $2740–$4638 Data Software Engineering 11 $3483–$6000 ETL 11 $3162–$4545 Airflow 9 $4134–$5054 Hive 9 $4500–$5321 Docker 8 $2675–$4501 Data Engineering 7 $3809–$5751 Data Warehousing 7 $3089–$4611 Snowflake 7 $3552–$5316

Where to hire

Sources

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