MogiVirginia Data Engineer Postings Surge 150%
New Data Engineer job postings in Virginia increased by one hundred fifty percent in the last 28 days.
By Owen Gallagher, Mogi Research · Oct 21, 2026
New Data Engineer job postings in Virginia rose by one hundred fifty percent. There were one hundred postings in the latest 28-day period, up from forty before.
Texas saw new Data Engineer postings rise by one hundred twenty-nine percent, from thirty-four to seventy-eight. California and New York each saw postings increase by one hundred percent, adding twenty-nine and twenty-two postings respectively.
This change may be a result of increased employer demand for Data Engineers. It could also reflect a greater number of Data Engineer roles being posted online by employers during this window.
The numbers
What are the top 5 states for new Data Engineer roles in the last 28 days?
| Name | Last 28 days | The 28 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 100 | 40 | +150% |
| Texas | 78 | 34 | +129% |
| California | 58 | 29 | +100% |
| New York | 44 | 22 | +100% |
| Ohio | 42 | 21 | +100% |
Top roles: Data Engineer (100)
Top employers: Capital One (23), Booz Allen Hamilton (16), Navy Federal Credit Union (12)
Virginia jobs by city
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 28 days to 2026-10-21 with the 28 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 Owen Gallagher of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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