Software Engineer vs Data Engineer
Side-by-side salary and market comparison from real job listings.
Software Engineer
Data Engineer
Median salary
$95,000,140,000
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25th percentile
$56,900,071,150
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75th percentile
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Top 10% earn above
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Listings with salary
238
231
Remote/hybrid
24%
26%
Top skills: Software Engineer
software engineeringpythonsoftware-engineeringsoftware-engineerdistributed systems
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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