What Principal Data Analytics Jobs Ask For
Across 184 open Principal Data Analytics postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are analytics, sql, python.
Updated September 19, 2026
198 open Principal Data Analytics postings. The percentages below are measured over the 184 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| analytics | 77% |
| sql | 65% |
| python | 46% |
| ai | 41% |
| data-analytics | 40% |
| data-quality | 37% |
| powerbi | 36% |
| cloud | 34% |
| automation | 34% |
| data-science | 33% |
| tableau | 28% |
| data-governance | 28% |
| data-visualization | 27% |
| machine-learning | 26% |
| statistics | 25% |
| agile | 23% |
| data-engineering | 21% |
| etl | 20% |
| databricks | 20% |
| data-pipelines | 19% |
| data-modeling | 18% |
| oracle | 17% |
| azure | 17% |
| snowflake | 16% |
| aws | 15% |
| dbt | 13% |
| api | 12% |
| sap | 12% |
| data-warehousing | 11% |
| spark | 11% |
| looker | 10% |
| generative-ai | 9% |
| agentic-ai | 9% |
| ci-cd | 9% |
| devops | 9% |
| jira | 9% |
| stakeholder-management | 8% |
| data-ingestion | 7% |
| gcp | 7% |
| llm | 7% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all Data Analytics levels
Most Data Analytics postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- analytics 12,333
- sql 11,793
- python 7,905
- powerbi 7,711
- data-analytics 5,934
- ai 5,854
- tableau 5,136
- data-quality 5,043
- cloud 3,997
- automation 3,756
- data-modeling 3,513
- data-science 3,410