# Market evidence report — data-engineer

Source: **22 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 22), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-11.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 14 | 64 % |
| senior | 6 | 27 % |
| lead | 1 | 5 % |
| n/a | 1 | 5 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Databricks | 9 | 41 % |
| 2 | Python | 9 | 41 % |
| 3 | Apache Spark | 5 | 23 % |
| 4 | AWS | 5 | 23 % |
| 5 | Spark | 5 | 23 % |
| 6 | SQL | 5 | 23 % |
| 7 | informatica | 4 | 18 % |
| 8 | Snowflake | 4 | 18 % |
| 9 | Azure Data Factory | 3 | 14 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data modeling | 11 | 50 % |
| 2 | data integration | 6 | 27 % |
| 3 | data pipeline design | 6 | 27 % |
| 4 | data analysis | 5 | 23 % |
| 5 | data engineering | 5 | 23 % |
| 6 | data transformation | 5 | 23 % |
| 7 | data warehousing | 4 | 18 % |
| 8 | statistical analysis | 4 | 18 % |
| 9 | data architecture | 3 | 14 % |
| 10 | database design | 3 | 14 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agile development | 4 | 18 % |

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data pipeline maintenance | 4 | 18 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 22 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

**Insufficient evidence** — 22 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### UK (gb)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.


## Job title variants in the market

| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Senior Full-Stack Data Engineer – TS/SCI Clearance | 2 |
| Cloud Data Engineer: Pipelines, Spark & Databricks | 1 |
| Combat Data Systems Engineer 🏆 | 1 |
| Data Engineer (Databricks) | 1 |
| Data Engineer / Analytics Programmer (Healthcare Data) | 1 |
| Data Engineer / Data Architect III | 1 |
| Data Engineer All Levels Crystal City VA | 1 |
| Data Engineer III | 1 |
| Data Engineer- up to $260k - FS Poly McLean, VA | 1 |
| Data Engineer(AWS/DataBricks experience REQUIRED) | 1 |
| Data Engineer, Mid | 1 |
| Data Engineer: ETL, Databricks & Big Data (Remote) | 1 |
| Entry Level Data Engineer | 1 |
| ETL Data Engineer | 1 |
| Kearney Activate Senior Consultant Data Engineer | 1 |
| Mid Data Engineer | 1 |
| Remote Data Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Data Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Data Engineer (Remote) | 1 |
| Senior Data Engineer: Build Scalable Data Pipelines | 1 |
| Senior Data Engineer: Mission-Critical Pipelines (Secret) | 1 |

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.