Data Engineer Jobs in Australia
Live Data Engineer job market analytics for Australia. Salary benchmarks, in-demand skills, and hiring trends for data pipeline, platform, and warehouse roles.
Data Engineers in Australia advertise a median salary of $155k, typically ranging $104k–$250k, across 290 live salary listings since March 2026. That's an advertised rate from real job ads — not a survey.
What a Data Engineer does
Data Engineers build and maintain the pipelines that move data from source systems into a warehouse or lake, and keep it reliable enough for analysts and models to depend on. The role leans heavily on tools like dbt, Airflow, Spark, and a cloud warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift), and Australian listings increasingly expect comfort with one of the major cloud platforms over classic on-prem ETL. It's a software-engineering-adjacent role — schema design and pipeline reliability matter more here than statistical modelling.