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Most In-Demand Data Engineering Skills

The most in-demand skills for Data Engineering roles right now are sql, python, cloud — ranked across 709981 open postings.

Updated September 14, 2026

#SkillOpen postings30-day growth
1sql43,611+14,945
2python42,521+14,560
3cloud38,072+11,859
4data-engineering34,151+11,078
5data-pipelines31,442+10,088
6analytics31,124+9,635
7etl29,670+10,261
8azure26,271+10,196
9ai25,587+7,040
10aws23,834+7,237
11data-quality23,321+7,675
12databricks20,755+7,964
13spark20,464+7,316
14ci-cd20,443+7,324
15elt18,365+7,131
16data-modeling15,775+5,355
17machine-learning15,282+4,457
18snowflake14,742+4,028
19data-governance14,704+4,589
20data-warehousing14,653+4,611
21gcp14,534+4,598
22airflow13,967+4,162
23api13,602+4,792
24pyspark12,417+5,486
25automation12,387+3,060
26agile12,251+3,698
27devops12,017+4,289
28dbt11,259+3,510
29git11,129+4,301
30kafka10,471+3,209
31powerbi9,748+3,629
32data-science9,099+2,753
33lakehouse9,041+3,763
34terraform8,456+3,136
35data-lake7,924+2,960
36java7,725+1,884
37scala7,643+2,381
38infrastructure-as-code7,357+2,421
39observability7,275+2,114
40azure-data-factory6,892+3,132

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