5 Fastest-Growing Engineering Fields

4. Data Engineering

We live in a digital age where the major currency is data. The job of data engineers is to develop complex models to gather data from a wide variety of sources mainly the internet, conduct data analysis, statistical operations, and extract the required data for decision-making purposes.

Although data scientists get more attention from the media, data engineers earn more than data scientists. Data engineer’s median salary is $137,000 whereas they can go as high as $180,000.