Data Engineer Salary in Adelaide — $121k Median
Data Engineer roles in Adelaide advertise a median salary of $121k (range $104k–$130k) across 27 live listings. See who's hiring and how pay compares by city.
Adelaide's Data Engineer figures look nothing like Sydney's or Melbourne's. The median, $121k, is $35k below Melbourne's $170k and $39k below Sydney's $160k — and the range is the tightest of any page tracked, just $104k–$130k, a $26k spread versus Sydney's $176k spread. That's not noise: it reflects a genuinely different market, dominated by South Australian health-sector employers rather than banks or tech consultancies.
SA Health leads hiring directly (7 of 100 matching listings), and health-adjacent public-sector employers fill most of the rest of the top six: Department for Health and Wellbeing SA (4), Altis (4) and South Australia Health Careers (3). Softtest Pays Pty (5) is the only name in the top six outside health and government.
Listings were flat month on month — 16 in August to 17 in September (+1) — the smallest movement of any city×role page here. The honest story for this page is "stable, narrow-band, health-sector-driven," not growth.