Data Engineer Salary Around the World (2026)

United States

Rounded national hiring band from Motion Recruitment, cross-checked against Built In employee-reported base salaries. The hiring range is not a statistical interval around the employee median. Bonus, equity and additional cash compensation are excluded. [2, 3]

Switzerland

Estimated central band triangulated from Fed Group and Optiveum hiring ranges and the base-only component of Zürich employee salary reports. Hiring quotes exceed some reported incumbent salaries; the city survey is not a nationwide median. Bonuses and equity are excluded. [4, 5, 6]

United Kingdom

Optiveum’s targeted hiring band is supported by IT Jobs Watch’s national permanent-vacancy median. The estimate does not generalize London’s higher advertised salaries to the whole country. Contractor day rates are excluded. [5, 7]

Germany

Targeted hiring range from Optiveum, checked against Hays’s gross annual benchmark and PayScale’s base-salary responses. The broad employee survey sits below the hiring band and is used as context rather than as an exact cohort median. [5, 8, 9]

France

Estimated band combines Hays and Optiveum guidance with a permanent La Défense salary disclosure. The related title Ingénieur Data Talend is included because its duties cover ETL, warehouses, SQL and production pipelines. The upper end is Paris-area weighted; benefits are separate. [10, 5, 11]

Ireland

Morgan McKinley’s Dublin hiring band agrees with IT Search’s professional-survey-based permanent salary guide. This is a Dublin-weighted estimate rather than a uniform nationwide median. Daily contract rates and additional compensation are excluded. [12, 13]

Netherlands

Gross monthly base band anchored to EDSN’s Amersfoort Data Engineer advertisement and checked against national employee base-pay reports. The estimate is weighted toward advertised vacancies, not a measured nationwide median; holiday payments and other benefits are outside the monthly base comparison. [14, 15]

Canada

Estimated central band from TD and Opensignal’s disclosed Data Engineer base salaries, cross-checked against PayScale employee reports. It is not either employer’s full offer range or a national median interval. Variable compensation and benefits are excluded. [16, 17, 18]

Australia

Latitude IT’s explicit base-salary hiring band is checked against PayScale’s employee base-pay distribution. Superannuation, bonuses and equity are excluded. Broad employee averages are lower, so this should be read as an experienced-hire market estimate rather than an incumbent national median. [19, 20]

New Zealand

Wellington-weighted estimate anchored to Salt’s permanent Databricks Data Engineer vacancy, checked against national employee base-pay reports. Broader employee averages are lower; this is an advertised hiring benchmark, not a measured nationwide median. Additional compensation is excluded. [21, 22]

Spain

Conservative estimated central band around Oxigent’s Barcelona Data Engineer salary disclosure and PayScale’s national base-pay responses. The range is a synthesis, not a published median interval. The employer vacancy is counted once despite syndication; bonuses are excluded. [23, 24]

Poland

Gross monthly employee-contract salary band from NTIATIVE, cross-checked with the base-only component of Middle Data Engineer employee reports. Uses an employment contract, locally called UoP; business-to-business invoice rates, variable pay and employer costs are excluded. [25, 26]

Hungary

Hays’s gross monthly band is corroborated by Bluebird’s local guide and Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Hungary’s advertised employee salary range. Uses the Data Engineer row of the Hays guide, not an adjacent occupation. Bonuses and benefits are excluded. [27, 28, 29]

Malaysia

Indicative Kuala Lumpur hiring band from a permanent Data Engineer vacancy, cross-checked against employee base-pay reports. The employer is confidential and the national survey average is lower, so this is not a representative national median. Pipeline, SQL and modeling duties support the occupation match. [30, 31]

Mexico

Indicative gross monthly band from a local payroll hiring benchmark, checked against Talentosy’s vacancy median for matching pipeline and modeling roles. The payroll guide does not disclose a salary sample size, so confidence is limited. Statutory extras, profit sharing and employer costs are excluded. [32, 33]

Brazil

Pleno Data Engineer base-pay reports are checked against Datruvia’s Azure pipeline vacancy and a separately advertised salaried CLT role in Rio de Janeiro. The employer disclosure is monthly base pay, but does not specify its contract type. Variable pay and additional salary payments are excluded. [34, 35, 36]