Data Engineering: What is it?
A definition based in data and historical context
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5 min readMay 13, 2020
Data Engineering is on a meteoric rise. As a proportion of jobs advertised in the UK, data engineering has more than doubled over that past two years. At 1.5%, that’s nearly 2,200 open positions. By comparison, “Software Engineer” makes up about 4.6%. And “Project Manager” 3.1%.
