What C-level Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 569 open C-level Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are data-engineering, ai, analytics.
Updated October 9, 2026
589 open C-level Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 569 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| data-engineering | 65% |
| ai | 62% |
| analytics | 62% |
| cloud | 52% |
| data-quality | 48% |
| sql | 47% |
| python | 44% |
| data-governance | 40% |
| data-pipelines | 36% |
| machine-learning | 32% |
| snowflake | 30% |
| databricks | 29% |
| ci-cd | 27% |
| automation | 27% |
| aws | 25% |
| observability | 24% |
| etl | 24% |
| spark | 22% |
| data-modeling | 22% |
| stakeholder-management | 19% |
| kafka | 18% |
| agile | 18% |
| azure | 18% |
| lakehouse | 18% |
| api | 17% |
| gcp | 16% |
| java | 16% |
| data-science | 15% |
| elt | 15% |
| airflow | 14% |
| cloud-native | 14% |
| data-ingestion | 14% |
| data-warehousing | 14% |
| dbt | 14% |
| metadata-management | 13% |
| kubernetes | 12% |
| terraform | 12% |
| llm | 12% |
| devops | 11% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 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 589 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 40,575
- python 38,446
- cloud 35,310
- data-engineering 31,913
- data-pipelines 29,567
- analytics 29,292
- etl 27,054
- ai 24,164
- azure 23,744
- data-quality 22,271
- aws 21,829
- databricks 19,678