MogiVirginia Data Engineer Job Postings Fall
New postings for Data Engineers in Virginia dropped by forty-three percent in the last week.
By Caleb Sutherland, Mogi Research · Oct 16, 2026
New job postings for Data Engineers in Virginia fell by forty-three percent. There were sixteen new postings this past week, down from twenty-eight the week before.
This drop is close to the overall change for all states, which saw a fall of forty-seven percent. California saw postings fall by forty-two percent, while New York postings fell by fifty-seven percent.
This change may be due to fewer companies posting jobs. It could also mean fewer roles are open right now. The data covers new postings found in the last seven days.
The numbers
What US states had the most new data engineer jobs in the last 7 days?
| Name | Last 7 days | The 7 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 16 | 28 | -43% |
| California | 11 | 19 | -42% |
| New York | 10 | 23 | -57% |
Top roles: Data Engineer (16)
Top employers: Booz Allen Hamilton (3), Infinitive Inc (3), Capital One (2)
Virginia jobs by city
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 7 days to 2026-10-16 with the 7 days before them. Covers US, all states, Data Engineer. Employers with fewer than five postings in the last eight weeks are grouped together and left out of the rankings. The company details come from the crawl's company profiles, where the crawl has one.
Written by Caleb Sutherland of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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