Most In-Demand Data Engineering Skills
The most in-demand skills for Data Engineering roles right now are sql, python, cloud — ranked across 657627 open postings.
Updated October 10, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sql | 40,698 | -2,146 |
| 2 | python | 38,539 | -3,565 |
| 3 | cloud | 35,463 | -2,333 |
| 4 | data-engineering | 32,067 | -1,913 |
| 5 | data-pipelines | 29,686 | -1,624 |
| 6 | analytics | 29,445 | -1,746 |
| 7 | etl | 27,119 | -2,156 |
| 8 | ai | 24,159 | -1,272 |
| 9 | azure | 23,882 | -1,995 |
| 10 | data-quality | 22,436 | -886 |
| 11 | aws | 21,807 | -2,078 |
| 12 | databricks | 19,785 | -604 |
| 13 | ci-cd | 19,552 | -604 |
| 14 | spark | 18,289 | -1,808 |
| 15 | elt | 17,199 | -875 |
| 16 | data-modeling | 15,104 | -642 |
| 17 | snowflake | 14,187 | -639 |
| 18 | machine-learning | 13,998 | -1,307 |
| 19 | data-warehousing | 13,890 | -595 |
| 20 | data-governance | 13,467 | -1,327 |
| 21 | gcp | 13,307 | -898 |
| 22 | api | 12,660 | -821 |
| 23 | airflow | 12,619 | -1,308 |
| 24 | automation | 12,019 | -417 |
| 25 | agile | 10,961 | -1,147 |
| 26 | devops | 10,920 | -1,023 |
| 27 | pyspark | 10,607 | -1,470 |
| 28 | dbt | 10,272 | -1,163 |
| 29 | git | 10,046 | -1,039 |
| 30 | powerbi | 9,419 | -126 |
| 31 | kafka | 8,788 | -1,742 |
| 32 | lakehouse | 8,595 | -97 |
| 33 | data-science | 8,507 | -586 |
| 34 | data-lake | 7,238 | -456 |
| 35 | terraform | 7,100 | -1,330 |
| 36 | observability | 6,888 | -462 |
| 37 | bigquery | 6,815 | +282 |
| 38 | java | 6,745 | -927 |
| 39 | scala | 6,716 | -736 |
| 40 | infrastructure-as-code | 6,633 | -742 |