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Top Data Engineers on Upwork

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Freelancers

11

with $10K+ public earnings

Combined earned

$2.91M

band profiles counted at the floor

Median earned

$232K

median rate $35/hr

Combined jobs

2,248

across the top 11

#	Freelancer	Earned	Jobs	Rating	Rate	Score
1	RWRobert W.Full Stack Developer/Sr Data EngineerData EngineersUnited States	$688K	30	5.0 / 5(8)	$85/hr	76
2	GGGaurav G.AI Engineer \| LLM, RAG, MCP & AI Agents in Production \| SOC 2 , HIPAAData EngineersIndia	$416K	144	4.8 / 5(90)	$30/hr	74
3	MTMohamed T.BI & Data Engineer \| SQL, Power BI, Python, Looker, Superset, BigQueryData EngineersEgypt	$408K	139	4.7 / 5(79)	$30/hr	73
4	AKAmbrose K.AI Developer \| RAG LLM Voice \| Claude \| Data Engineer \| n8n \| API OdooData EngineersKenya	$320K	1,090	4.6 / 5(613)	$35/hr	72
5	UAUsman A.Fractional Data & AI Engineer \| Pipelines, RAG, Agents \| MCP, ClaudeData EngineersUnited Arab Emirates	$236K	150	4.8 / 5(86)	$50/hr	72
6	WMWaheed M.Azure Data Engineer \| Microsoft Fabric, Databricks & SQL MigrationsSQL DevelopersPakistan	$232K	363	4.8 / 5(211)	$30/hr	72
7	JMJason M.AI/ML Engineer - GenAI, Agents, Data Scientist, Cloud, Healthcare, PhDMachine Learning ExpertsUnited States	$217K	51	4.9 / 5(42)	$105/hr	72
8	DSDylan S.Senior Data Analyst & Data EngineerData EngineersEcuador	$175K	135	4.9 / 5(44)	$20/hr	72
9	SSSalah S.Senior AI & Data Scientist \| LLM, NLP, RAG & AI Agents \| Kaggle MasterMachine Learning ExpertsTunisia	$157K	81	5.0 / 5(49)	$50/hr	72
10	KNKevin N.AI & Data Engineer \| RAG, AI Agents, MCP \| Python, AWSData EngineersSouth Korea	$45.7K	30	4.8 / 5(10)	$45/hr	66
11	RJRoel J.Data Research Expert \| B2B Lead Research Expert \| Social Media SupportData EngineersPhilippines	$14.2K	35	5.0 / 5(15)	$5/hr	63

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