What Lead Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 5,269 open Lead Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are data-engineering, cloud, sql.
Updated October 8, 2026
5,516 open Lead Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 5,269 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| data-engineering | 59% |
| cloud | 55% |
| sql | 52% |
| python | 51% |
| analytics | 47% |
| data-pipelines | 43% |
| ai | 43% |
| azure | 37% |
| data-quality | 36% |
| etl | 35% |
| databricks | 33% |
| aws | 33% |
| ci-cd | 33% |
| spark | 27% |
| data-governance | 27% |
| data-modeling | 25% |
| snowflake | 25% |
| elt | 24% |
| machine-learning | 22% |
| automation | 20% |
| agile | 20% |
| data-warehousing | 20% |
| devops | 19% |
| gcp | 18% |
| dbt | 17% |
| airflow | 16% |
| api | 15% |
| pyspark | 15% |
| lakehouse | 14% |
| data-science | 14% |
| git | 13% |
| kafka | 13% |
| observability | 12% |
| powerbi | 12% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 11% |
| data-ingestion | 11% |
| terraform | 11% |
| cloud-native | 10% |
| data-lake | 10% |
| java | 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.
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Across all Data Engineering levels
Most Data Engineering postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- sql 39,899
- python 37,858
- cloud 34,771
- data-engineering 31,426
- data-pipelines 29,376
- analytics 28,812
- etl 26,733
- ai 23,833
- azure 23,295
- data-quality 21,991
- aws 21,651
- databricks 19,183