What C-level Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 656 open C-level Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are data-engineering, ai, analytics.
Updated September 19, 2026
760 open C-level Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 656 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| data-engineering | 63% |
| ai | 61% |
| analytics | 59% |
| cloud | 49% |
| data-quality | 48% |
| sql | 43% |
| python | 40% |
| data-governance | 39% |
| data-pipelines | 35% |
| machine-learning | 31% |
| snowflake | 28% |
| databricks | 26% |
| automation | 26% |
| ci-cd | 25% |
| aws | 24% |
| data-modeling | 23% |
| etl | 22% |
| spark | 21% |
| azure | 20% |
| observability | 18% |
| api | 18% |
| agile | 18% |
| stakeholder-management | 17% |
| kafka | 16% |
| lakehouse | 16% |
| data-science | 16% |
| java | 15% |
| data-warehousing | 15% |
| gcp | 15% |
| dbt | 14% |
| elt | 14% |
| airflow | 14% |
| cloud-native | 13% |
| kubernetes | 12% |
| terraform | 12% |
| llm | 11% |
| data-ingestion | 11% |
| metadata-management | 10% |
| devops | 10% |
| data-lineage | 10% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
Browse 760 open C-level Data Engineering jobs →
Across all Data Engineering levels
Most Data Engineering postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- sql 44,839
- python 43,571
- cloud 39,467
- data-engineering 35,398
- data-pipelines 32,707
- analytics 32,318
- etl 30,540
- azure 26,991
- ai 26,672
- aws 24,714
- data-quality 24,270
- ci-cd 21,143