What Staff Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 884 open Staff Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are ai, python, cloud.
Updated October 10, 2026
912 open Staff Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 884 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| ai | 66% |
| python | 62% |
| cloud | 60% |
| data-engineering | 56% |
| analytics | 56% |
| data-pipelines | 52% |
| sql | 51% |
| aws | 50% |
| data-quality | 40% |
| observability | 39% |
| spark | 38% |
| machine-learning | 35% |
| ci-cd | 34% |
| dbt | 33% |
| airflow | 33% |
| kafka | 31% |
| snowflake | 30% |
| automation | 28% |
| etl | 27% |
| api | 26% |
| data-governance | 26% |
| data-modeling | 25% |
| gcp | 24% |
| kubernetes | 21% |
| azure | 20% |
| databricks | 20% |
| distributed-systems | 20% |
| data-science | 19% |
| elt | 19% |
| terraform | 19% |
| bigquery | 19% |
| java | 18% |
| agentic-ai | 18% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 17% |
| data-warehousing | 15% |
| s3 | 15% |
| lakehouse | 14% |
| llm | 14% |
| flink | 13% |
| scala | 13% |
"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 40,698
- python 38,539
- cloud 35,463
- data-engineering 32,067
- data-pipelines 29,686
- analytics 29,445
- etl 27,119
- ai 24,159
- azure 23,882
- data-quality 22,436
- aws 21,807
- databricks 19,785