Data Scientist vs Data Engineer
Side-by-side salary and market comparison from real job listings.
Data Scientist
Data Engineer
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Listings with salary
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Remote/hybrid
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Top skills: Data Scientist
data-sciencefull-timedata science & analyticsmachine-learningmid-senior level
Top skills: Data Engineer
data-engineeringdata-engineersenior-data-engineerdata science & analyticsetl-development
Both roles pay about the same at the median.
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