Analytics Engineer Posted Median Jumps to $220,000 — On Just 7 Listings

The posted median for Analytics Engineer roles on the boards we track sits at $220,000 over the last 30 days, up from $155,000 in the 30 days before that. That is a $65,000 move, or about 42%.

Before anyone reprices a job search around it: each window contains seven listings with a usable salary range. Seven now, seven before. That is one of the smallest pools in our salary-move set, and at that size a single well-paid senior req can drag the median five figures in either direction.

All figures here are employer-posted pay ranges, annualized to USD (hourly converted at 2,080 hours). They are what employers printed on the job ad, not what anyone reported earning.

The one clean thing about this comparison

Most of the movers in our 30-day salary file changed pool size along with price, which muddies the reading. Program Manager went from 88 priced listings to 14. Sales Manager went from 102 to 25. Manufacturing Engineer went from 72 to 19. When the pool shrinks by 70% or more, you are largely looking at a different set of employers, not the same employers changing their minds.

Analytics Engineer is the exception: 7 listings then, 7 listings now. The composition still changed — different roles, different companies — but at least the sample size held steady, so the move is not an artifact of the pool collapsing.

It is also the second-largest percentage gain among the eight occupations with a tracked 30-day move, behind Manufacturing Engineer's jump from $156,000 to $230,000. Five of the eight moved down, including Engineer (from $179,545 to $90,750 on 14 then 5 listings) and Lawyer (from $280,000 to $220,000 on 35 then 8).

Where $220,000 sits against bigger pools

Analytics Engineer does not have enough priced listings to appear in our main posted-salary-by-occupation table, where the smallest entry carries 124 listings. But the neighborhood is worth knowing.

At $220,000, the current Analytics Engineer median lands below Software Engineer at $240,000 across 1,294 priced listings, and well below Machine Learning Engineer at $272,800 across 124. The prior window's $155,000 would have placed it closer to Financial Analyst at $165,000 across 125 listings. So the move is roughly a jump from analyst-tier posted pay to software-engineer-tier posted pay — on a sample of seven.

The hiring side is quiet, adjacent hiring is not

Analytics Engineer did not crack the top occupations by new postings this week. The closest adjacent title did: Data Engineer logged 11 new postings this week against 2 the prior week, one of the sharper week-over-week jumps in the top twelve, though from a small base.

The underlying skills keep showing up. Python led all skills with 91 new postings this week, SQL tied for second at 56 alongside Microsoft Excel and Salesforce, and Data Analysis drew 24. That is the toolkit these roles ask for, and demand for it is not confined to a handful of titles.

For scale, the boards we track carried 58,042 open listings from 686 employers, with 10,817 new postings this week against 6,610 the prior week. Analytics Engineer is a rounding error inside that — which is exactly why its salary median moves the way it does.

Watch it again in 30 days. If the median holds near $220,000 on a comparable or larger pool, it is a level. If it snaps back toward $155,000, the last window was seven ads, not a trend. You can follow the day-by-day picture on US hiring trends.