Most In-Demand Data Engineering Skills
The most in-demand skills for Data Engineering roles right now are sql, python, cloud — ranked across 684786 open postings.
Updated October 17, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sql | 42,164 | -2,276 |
| 2 | python | 39,906 | -3,366 |
| 3 | cloud | 36,920 | -1,887 |
| 4 | data-engineering | 33,480 | -1,356 |
| 5 | data-pipelines | 31,103 | -994 |
| 6 | analytics | 30,859 | -874 |
| 7 | etl | 28,291 | -1,896 |
| 8 | ai | 25,237 | -926 |
| 9 | azure | 24,826 | -1,934 |
| 10 | data-quality | 23,521 | -323 |
| 11 | aws | 22,602 | -1,797 |
| 12 | databricks | 20,596 | -525 |
| 13 | ci-cd | 20,514 | -346 |
| 14 | spark | 18,819 | -1,939 |
| 15 | elt | 17,956 | -753 |
| 16 | data-modeling | 15,666 | -479 |
| 17 | snowflake | 14,818 | -219 |
| 18 | machine-learning | 14,514 | -1,091 |
| 19 | data-warehousing | 14,414 | -531 |
| 20 | data-governance | 14,095 | -975 |
| 21 | gcp | 13,817 | -995 |
| 22 | api | 13,117 | -802 |
| 23 | airflow | 13,002 | -1,236 |
| 24 | automation | 12,690 | -22 |
| 25 | agile | 11,579 | -952 |
| 26 | devops | 11,447 | -735 |
| 27 | pyspark | 10,996 | -1,642 |
| 28 | dbt | 10,736 | -723 |
| 29 | git | 10,478 | -868 |
| 30 | powerbi | 9,807 | -120 |
| 31 | kafka | 9,202 | -1,424 |
| 32 | lakehouse | 8,926 | -265 |
| 33 | data-science | 8,826 | -495 |
| 34 | data-lake | 7,438 | -623 |
| 35 | terraform | 7,371 | -1,222 |
| 36 | observability | 7,218 | -221 |
| 37 | bigquery | 7,091 | +328 |
| 38 | java | 7,018 | -807 |
| 39 | infrastructure-as-code | 6,952 | -589 |
| 40 | data-ingestion | 6,774 | -40 |