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Data Engineer in Austin, TX

Job title · Austin, Texas

Job title as filed
Data Engineer
City
Austin, Texas
Applications FY2022–FY2026
500
Median offered wage
$114,754
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$114,754certified LCAs
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

Labor condition applications with the job title "Data Engineer" and a worksite in Austin.

Applications by fiscal year

65130FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
65130FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY202277
FY202378
FY2024117
FY2025130
FY2026*98
Certified (decided applications)
99.8%
Employers filing
206
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. Apple Inc.46
  2. Expedia, Inc.39
  3. Facebook, Inc.27
  4. Google LLC23
  5. Tesla, Inc.13
  6. IBM Corporation13
  7. Cloudflare, Inc.11
  8. Amarthy IT Solutions LLC9
  9. Indeed, Inc.6
  10. Kestra Financial, Inc.6
  11. Atlassian, Inc.6
  12. Google Public Sector LLC5
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)

Median $114,754; middle half $95,000 to $139,152 · median prevailing wage $100,526 (marker) · 494 applications.

$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k
$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I57
  2. Level II241
  3. Level III102
  4. Level IV87
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Data Engineer" appears on 18,712 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 4,627 employers for worksites in 1,311 cities; the median offered wage is $103,730, so the median in Austin is 10.6% above it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
18,712
Employers nationwide
4,627
Cities with filings
1,311
National median offered wage
$103,730
Share of national filings in Austin
2.7%
Cities with the most applications for Data Engineer
  1. Irving, TX820
  2. Plano, TX693
  3. New York City, NY641
  4. Menlo Park, CA535
  5. Austin, TX500
  6. Charlotte, NC392
  7. Dallas, TX391
  8. Houston, TX341
  9. Chicago, IL339
  10. Seattle, WA304
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

The Austin job market

Austin has 64,412 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 13,288 job titles and 6,594 employers; "Data Engineer" ranks #9 by applications, with 0.8% of them.

Applications in Austin, all job titles
64,412
Job titles filed
13,288
Rank of Data Engineer in Austin
9
Median offered wage in Austin, all job titles
$122,906
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
Other job titles in Austin
  1. Software Engineer2,870
  2. Software Developer2,341
  3. Software Development Engineer II871
  4. Senior Software Engineer858
  5. Component Design Engineer663
  6. Software Development Engineer I622
  7. Architect574
  8. Software Development Engineer524
  9. Software Dev Engineer II367
  10. Software Engineering Applications363
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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