What Senior Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 17,845 open Senior Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are sql, python, cloud.
Updated November 5, 2026
18,205 open Senior Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 17,845 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| sql | 65% |
| python | 61% |
| cloud | 57% |
| data-engineering | 54% |
| data-pipelines | 54% |
| analytics | 48% |
| etl | 43% |
| ai | 40% |
| data-quality | 38% |
| azure | 37% |
| ci-cd | 36% |
| aws | 36% |
| databricks | 33% |
| spark | 30% |
| elt | 29% |
| data-modeling | 28% |
| data-warehousing | 25% |
| snowflake | 25% |
| data-governance | 24% |
| airflow | 23% |
| machine-learning | 23% |
| gcp | 22% |
| api | 21% |
| automation | 21% |
| dbt | 20% |
| pyspark | 18% |
| devops | 18% |
| lakehouse | 17% |
| git | 17% |
| data-lake | 17% |
| agile | 17% |
| kafka | 16% |
| observability | 15% |
| terraform | 14% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 13% |
| powerbi | 13% |
| big-data | 13% |
| data-science | 13% |
| bigquery | 12% |
| azure-data-factory | 12% |
"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 18,205 open Senior 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