MogiData Engineer Job Postings Rise in US
Job postings for Data Engineers saw an 18 percent increase in the US over the last week.
By Nathan Park, Mogi Research · Oct 29, 2026
First, job postings for Data Engineers rose by eighteen percent. This change saw postings go from one hundred seventy six to two hundred seven.
Second, Analytics Engineer postings saw a surge of sixty two percent. This change saw postings go from twenty one to thirty four. Frontend Engineer postings edged up by thirty eight percent, going from twenty six to thirty six postings.
Third, the number of new job postings across all roles in the US was two thousand eight hundred fifteen, a seven percent rise from two thousand six hundred thirty seven posted the week before. This may be due to increased demand for data-related roles. It could also reflect a general uptick in employer activity.
Next, Data Engineer roles saw the most new job postings in Texas, California, and Maryland. Walmart, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Dollar General posted the most Data Engineer roles.
The numbers
What are the top 5 growing backend engineer roles in the US over the last week?
| Name | Last 7 days | The 7 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Engineer | 207 | 176 | +18% |
| Analytics Engineer | 34 | 21 | +62% |
| Frontend Engineer | 36 | 26 | +38% |
| Full Stack Engineer | 202 | 154 | +31% |
| Data Analyst | 167 | 132 | +27% |
Top employers: Walmart (7), Booz Allen Hamilton (6), Dollar General (5)
Top states: Texas (14), California (13), Maryland (11)
Data Engineer jobs by city
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 7 days to 2026-10-29 with the 7 days before them. Covers US, 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 Nathan Park of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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