About 166,000 in 2025, up 1% from the year before.Annual report (SEC Form 10-K)
Company
Listed as AAPL.
H-1B visas
1,599 approved for new hires in fiscal 2025.US Citizenship and Immigration Services
Layoff notices
Notices this year and last cover 135 people. The latest was filed April 23, 2026.State WARN notices
Demand for Data Engineer roles
New Data Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 7% over the last 6 weeks compared with the 6 before.
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Each bar is one week of new postings. The darkest bars are the last 6 weeks.
Counted from the hiring pages we’ve followed for at least five weeks, so employers we add don’t look like growth. Updated weekly.
About the role
We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.
Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.
Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.
An analytics engineer works one step later, turning the raw data a data engineer lands into clean tables people can query.
US government figures for database architects
Median yearly pay, May 2025
$139,500
Expected change, 2025 to 2035
9.4% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs
The government has no code for data engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, database architects, which includes data integration and data warehousing specialists.
Join ASE Data Services and help build and evolve the databases that power Apple's services at massive scale. We build and run high performance, distributed datastores, relying heavily on open source technologies and contributing back to the projects we depend on. You'll help design and build the next generation of this platform, and support its production health along the way.