What Lead Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 4,932 open Lead Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are data-engineering, cloud, sql.
Updated November 5, 2026
5,099 open Lead Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 4,932 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| data-engineering | 62% |
| cloud | 58% |
| sql | 54% |
| python | 53% |
| analytics | 47% |
| data-pipelines | 45% |
| ai | 43% |
| data-quality | 37% |
| ci-cd | 36% |
| azure | 36% |
| etl | 34% |
| databricks | 34% |
| aws | 33% |
| data-governance | 28% |
| spark | 27% |
| data-modeling | 26% |
| snowflake | 26% |
| elt | 23% |
| data-warehousing | 22% |
| automation | 22% |
| agile | 22% |
| machine-learning | 21% |
| airflow | 18% |
| devops | 18% |
| gcp | 17% |
| pyspark | 17% |
| api | 16% |
| lakehouse | 16% |
| observability | 15% |
| dbt | 15% |
| data-lake | 15% |
| kafka | 14% |
| big-data | 14% |
| git | 13% |
| data-science | 13% |
| cloud-native | 13% |
| powerbi | 12% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 11% |
| test-automation | 11% |
| stakeholder-management | 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 5,099 open Lead Data Engineering jobs →
Across all Data Engineering levels
Most Data Engineering postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- sql 39,556
- python 36,494
- cloud 33,759
- data-engineering 31,772
- data-pipelines 30,245
- analytics 28,122
- etl 26,574
- ai 22,879
- azure 22,276
- data-quality 21,845
- aws 20,402
- ci-cd 19,726