I might be wrong but I’ve seen a growth for data engineers these past months. But I’m not sure it’s a trend specific to my country.

I suppose it is. It’s like you have all the tools needed for the job but don’t know how to handle them. I’m not any expert on the field but as far as my projects they somewhat brought a certain “essence” that resembled you of a problem you once faced or studied.

I’m not sure how you acquire your skills but I’ve tried videos, books and articles and the one that mostly developed my skill was “training” like coding a mini-project or running an EDA or even applying ML to a small dataset. Of course you need to get the knowledge from books and videos but other peoples projects are also a really good source. So I recommend taking a look on Kaggle.