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
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sql | 43,611 | +14,945 |
| 2 | python | 42,521 | +14,560 |
| 3 | cloud | 38,072 | +11,859 |
| 4 | data-engineering | 34,151 | +11,078 |
| 5 | data-pipelines | 31,442 | +10,088 |
| 6 | analytics | 31,124 | +9,635 |
| 7 | etl | 29,670 | +10,261 |
| 8 | azure | 26,271 | +10,196 |
| 9 | ai | 25,587 | +7,040 |
| 10 | aws | 23,834 | +7,237 |
| 11 | data-quality | 23,321 | +7,675 |
| 12 | databricks | 20,755 | +7,964 |
| 13 | spark | 20,464 | +7,316 |
| 14 | ci-cd | 20,443 | +7,324 |
| 15 | elt | 18,365 | +7,131 |
| 16 | data-modeling | 15,775 | +5,355 |
| 17 | machine-learning | 15,282 | +4,457 |
| 18 | snowflake | 14,742 | +4,028 |
| 19 | data-governance | 14,704 | +4,589 |
| 20 | data-warehousing | 14,653 | +4,611 |
| 21 | gcp | 14,534 | +4,598 |
| 22 | airflow | 13,967 | +4,162 |
| 23 | api | 13,602 | +4,792 |
| 24 | pyspark | 12,417 | +5,486 |
| 25 | automation | 12,387 | +3,060 |
| 26 | agile | 12,251 | +3,698 |
| 27 | devops | 12,017 | +4,289 |
| 28 | dbt | 11,259 | +3,510 |
| 29 | git | 11,129 | +4,301 |
| 30 | kafka | 10,471 | +3,209 |
| 31 | powerbi | 9,748 | +3,629 |
| 32 | data-science | 9,099 | +2,753 |
| 33 | lakehouse | 9,041 | +3,763 |
| 34 | terraform | 8,456 | +3,136 |
| 35 | data-lake | 7,924 | +2,960 |
| 36 | java | 7,725 | +1,884 |
| 37 | scala | 7,643 | +2,381 |
| 38 | infrastructure-as-code | 7,357 | +2,421 |
| 39 | observability | 7,275 | +2,114 |
| 40 | azure-data-factory | 6,892 | +3,132 |