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Data scientist and data engineer among top tech roles for 2025

Data scientist and data engineer among top tech roles for 2025

SIA Editorial Staff
| October 11, 2024
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Data scientist and data engineer are two of the top technology roles heading into 2025, according to Randstad’s 2025 Salary Guide.

Employment for data scientists is expected to grow as AI and machine learning become more integral to business strategies. Employment of data scientists is expected to grow by 73,100 between 2023 and 2033, according to US Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited in the report. Cities such as Boston; San Francisco; and Vancouver, Canada, are hotbeds for these workers, according to Randstad.

National salaries for data scientist jobs range from $110,131 to $123,925 for midlevel professionals, according to the report. The range goes to $127,981 to $141,082 for senior-level talent. The salary range varies by location; for a higher-cost area such as New York City, salaries for all tech roles are on average 22.22% higher.

Randstad’s Salary Guide also noted that with more big data, the role of data engineers is critical.

“Data engineers are the unsung heroes of the data ecosystem,” the report states. “They build the pipelines that transport data from one system to another, ensuring that data is clean, reliable and accessible for analysis.”

National salaries for data engineers range from $94,935 to $106,373 for midlevel workers to $109,785 to $121,120 for senior-level talent. Key markets for data engineers are San Francisco, Toronto and Boston.

Randstad’s Salary Guide looked at a range of occupations from technology and finance/accounting to customer service and healthcare.

Overall, the report found the four key trends set to reshape the workplace in 2025 are the acceleration of AI and automation, the growing need for upskilling and reskilling, the shift to remote work, and the impact of global and political factors.