Most In-Demand Data Analytics Skills
The most in-demand skills for Data Analytics roles right now are sql, analytics, powerbi — ranked across 150559 open postings.
Updated November 3, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sql | 14,096 | -2,069 |
| 2 | analytics | 13,375 | -2,935 |
| 3 | powerbi | 9,487 | -1,197 |
| 4 | python | 9,434 | -1,524 |
| 5 | ai | 6,462 | -1,448 |
| 6 | data-analytics | 6,324 | -1,134 |
| 7 | tableau | 6,076 | -933 |
| 8 | data-quality | 5,497 | -1,016 |
| 9 | business-intelligence | 5,150 | -930 |
| 10 | cloud | 4,490 | -827 |
| 11 | data-modeling | 4,284 | -562 |
| 12 | automation | 4,274 | -861 |
| 13 | data-science | 4,085 | -664 |
| 14 | data-visualization | 3,979 | -605 |
| 15 | statistics | 3,936 | -540 |
| 16 | etl | 3,491 | -488 |
| 17 | data-engineering | 3,184 | -637 |
| 18 | machine-learning | 2,966 | -607 |
| 19 | data-warehousing | 2,758 | -456 |
| 20 | data-governance | 2,725 | -620 |
| 21 | snowflake | 2,626 | -607 |
| 22 | data-pipelines | 2,592 | -728 |
| 23 | azure | 2,397 | -453 |
| 24 | looker | 2,351 | -223 |
| 25 | agile | 2,171 | -331 |
| 26 | dbt | 2,169 | -612 |
| 27 | databricks | 2,029 | -478 |
| 28 | aws | 1,914 | -375 |
| 29 | bigquery | 1,776 | -44 |
| 30 | api | 1,703 | -309 |
| 31 | git | 1,493 | -164 |
| 32 | gcp | 1,444 | -43 |
| 33 | power-query | 1,387 | -45 |
| 34 | sql-server | 1,330 | -204 |
| 35 | stakeholder-management | 1,312 | -227 |
| 36 | rdbms | 1,236 | -188 |
| 37 | elt | 1,187 | -255 |
| 38 | ci-cd | 1,155 | -184 |
| 39 | llm | 1,115 | -72 |
| 40 | erp | 1,099 | -108 |