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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

data pipelines

1,110 live US technical postings name data pipelines in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 1,110 postings naming data pipelines that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer39.9%
  2. 2Data Engineer20.4%
  3. 3Data Scientist12.2%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer9.5%
  5. 5AI Engineer4.8%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.1%
  7. 7Data Analyst3.7%
  8. 8Backend Engineer2.4%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where data pipelines is named
n = 595
10th
$136k
25th
$166k
Median
$193k
75th
$229k
90th
$270k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA18.6%
  2. 2Remote14.1%
  3. 3New York, NY12.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA10.7%
  5. 5Washington, DC4%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.8%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.6%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.1%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.