What C-level Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 513 open C-level Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are analytics, ai, data-engineering.
Updated November 3, 2026
531 open C-level Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 513 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| analytics | 66% |
| ai | 63% |
| data-engineering | 61% |
| data-quality | 52% |
| sql | 49% |
| cloud | 48% |
| data-governance | 45% |
| python | 41% |
| data-pipelines | 37% |
| ci-cd | 33% |
| machine-learning | 31% |
| automation | 30% |
| aws | 28% |
| databricks | 28% |
| snowflake | 27% |
| data-modeling | 24% |
| observability | 23% |
| etl | 21% |
| spark | 21% |
| stakeholder-management | 21% |
| lakehouse | 20% |
| azure | 19% |
| dbt | 18% |
| api | 18% |
| airflow | 17% |
| kafka | 16% |
| elt | 16% |
| data-science | 15% |
| terraform | 15% |
| metadata-management | 14% |
| agile | 14% |
| data-warehousing | 14% |
| cloud-native | 13% |
| gcp | 13% |
| java | 12% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 12% |
| kubernetes | 12% |
| devops | 11% |
| data-lake | 11% |
| llm | 11% |
"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 531 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 37,551
- python 34,758
- cloud 32,101
- data-engineering 30,136
- data-pipelines 28,862
- analytics 26,703
- etl 25,202
- ai 21,717
- azure 21,526
- data-quality 20,587
- aws 19,492
- ci-cd 18,656