What Lead Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 5,976 open Lead Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are data-engineering, cloud, sql.
Updated September 18, 2026
6,307 open Lead Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 5,976 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| data-engineering | 59% |
| cloud | 55% |
| sql | 51% |
| python | 50% |
| analytics | 48% |
| data-pipelines | 44% |
| ai | 41% |
| azure | 36% |
| data-quality | 35% |
| aws | 34% |
| etl | 33% |
| databricks | 31% |
| ci-cd | 30% |
| spark | 26% |
| data-governance | 25% |
| data-modeling | 24% |
| snowflake | 24% |
| elt | 22% |
| machine-learning | 21% |
| automation | 21% |
| data-warehousing | 20% |
| gcp | 19% |
| devops | 18% |
| agile | 18% |
| airflow | 17% |
| api | 15% |
| dbt | 15% |
| pyspark | 14% |
| data-science | 13% |
| observability | 13% |
| git | 12% |
| kafka | 12% |
| lakehouse | 11% |
| powerbi | 11% |
| data-lake | 10% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 10% |
| java | 10% |
| cloud-native | 10% |
| scala | 10% |
| data-ingestion | 9% |
"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 Engineering levels
Most Data Engineering postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- sql 44,744
- python 43,473
- cloud 39,397
- data-engineering 35,323
- data-pipelines 32,630
- analytics 32,267
- etl 30,454
- azure 26,917
- ai 26,601
- aws 24,687
- data-quality 24,223
- ci-cd 21,081