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Data Engineer Jobs in Chicago

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Added in 7 days10Posted in the last 7 days, where the advert gives a date
Median pay$130,000 to $148,500Advertised salary: median of the 54 adverts that state annual pay, apprenticeships not included
Pay range

What Data Engineer pays in Chicago

In context

Data Engineer pay across cities

Chicago is 5 of 6 on the middle of the median advertised range for Data Engineer, among the biggest cities TUNAI tracks for this role.

CityMedian advertised payLive jobs
San Francisco$179,500 to $213,200118
New York$150,000 to $200,000218
Dallas$123,300 to $170,00059
Austin$130,700 to $155,50080
Chicago$130,000 to $148,50099
Atlanta$116,000 to $148,00068
Top skills

Most required skills

The skills that appear most in these adverts, as a share of the adverts.

  1. Python41%
  2. Etl37%
  3. SQL34%
  4. Databricks25%
  5. AWS22%

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How this page is made: counted from the live adverts TUNAI reads on employers’ own careers sites, read on 6 Nov 2026 and recounted every night. Pay is the median of the adverts that state a yearly figure, never a guess. The method.