MogiData Engineer Job Postings Rise 28 Percent
Demand for Data Engineers increased significantly in the last 28 days.
By Caleb Sutherland, Mogi Research · Oct 23, 2026
Job postings for Data Engineers went up by twenty-eight percent. This is based on postings from the last twenty-eight days compared to the prior twenty-eight days. Overall job postings across all roles rose by ten percent in the same period.
Postings for Software Engineer roles fell by one percent. Product Manager postings rose by twenty percent. DevOps Engineer postings rose by eleven percent.
This rise in Data Engineer roles may be because companies need more people to manage and analyze data. It could also be that more Data Engineer jobs were posted online recently. The increase might reflect a growing need for data skills in many companies.
The numbers
What roles are most in-demand across all countries in the last 28 days?
| Name | Last 28 days | The 28 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Engineer | 2,202 | 1,725 | +28% |
| Software Engineer | 10,045 | 10,136 | -1% |
| Product Manager | 4,091 | 3,408 | +20% |
| Full Stack Engineer | 2,652 | 2,622 | +1% |
| DevOps Engineer | 1,823 | 1,640 | +11% |
Top employers: Genpact (74), JPMorgan Chase (58), Capital One (32)
Top states: Virginia (92), Texas (77), California (54)
Data Engineer jobs by city
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 28 days to 2026-10-23 with the 28 days before them. Covers all countries, all states, all roles. 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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