Half of the ads sit inside the yellow box. The dashed line is the legal minimum.
What the data engineer ads show
Offers for data engineer jobs in Metro Manila are spread wide: the upper-quarter line (₱105,000) is 7.0 times the lower-quarter line (₱15,000), with the median (₱65,000) near the middle of that band. Ads bunch on one figure: ₱15,000 to ₱15,999 alone accounts for 44% of them. A quarter of the ads offer ₱15,000 or less, below the NCR minimum wage of ₱16,421 a month.
Same job, other places
Same scale on every row · median and middle half · ₱ per month
Jobs that state the pay
Sorted by pay. The link opens the employer's own posting.
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Questions people ask
How much do data engineer jobs pay in Metro Manila?
In October 2026, the median advertised pay for data engineer in Metro Manila was ₱65,000 a month. Half of the 64 postings that stated pay offered between ₱15,000 and ₱105,000.
Is ₱65,000 a month good pay in Metro Manila?
It is 4.0 times the NCR minimum wage (₱16,421 a month at 755 pesos a day). This is advertised pay before deductions, not take-home.
Magkano ang sweldo ng data engineer sa Metro Manila?
Ang median na sweldo na nakasulat sa mga job ad noong October 2026 ay ₱65,000 kada buwan. Ang kalahati ng 64 job ads ay nag-aalok ng ₱15,000 hanggang ₱105,000.
Where do these numbers come from?
From 127 job postings across 9 Philippine job boards in October 2026, of which 50% stated a salary. Duplicates are removed and groups under 10 postings are not shown. The original ads are linked, never copied.
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