Data Engineering Careers in Japan: What 257 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 257
- 130
- 46%
- 52%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
29
3-4 years of experience
51
5-9 years of experience
33
10+ years of experience
5
13%
19% day-to-day or above
Data Analysis
69%
AWS
63%
SQL
58%
Python
54%
Google Cloud
53%
Azure
35%
Generative AI
35%
Machine Learning
31%
257 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
3%
19% day-to-day or above
29 postings
3–4 years
12%
26% day-to-day or above
Stakeholder Management 29% (+15)
Docker 14% (+14)
Agile 14% (+11)
Terraform 20% (+10)
51 postings
5+ years
24%
40% day-to-day or above
Python 68% (+25)
CI/CD 29% (+13)
Java 26% (+12)
DevOps 16% (+12)
SQL 61% (+10)
38 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥8,300,000 · 134 postings state pay
¥7,200,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥9,800,000
Working Conditions
- 123 days
59 postings
- 49%
- 25%
Fully remote
17
Hybrid
61
On-site
5
256 postings
What Comes Next
Specialist track
17
People management
14
Project management
11
Senior leadership
6
Employers naming each step, of 21 that name one
Who Is Hiring
All Data Engineering openings
257 postings from 130 employers, as of 2026-09-22
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Data Engineering career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Data Engineering job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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