Skills
Data Engineer Skills
Data Engineering is the most in-demand skill for Data Engineer roles, asked for in 89% of 285 live Data Engineer listings. The most-requested skills are Data Engineering, Python, SQL, Machine Learning, and Airflow.
Ranked by live-role demand across active Data Engineer listings. Updated 6 hours ago.
Most-requested skills
| Skill | Share of roles | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Data Engineering | 89% | 254 |
| Python | 74% | 210 |
| SQL | 65% | 185 |
| Machine Learning | 46% | 132 |
| Airflow | 36% | 103 |
| AWS | 35% | 101 |
| Spark | 35% | 100 |
| Snowflake | 35% | 100 |
| dbt | 34% | 97 |
| Data Science | 26% | 74 |
| GCP | 22% | 63 |
| CI/CD | 22% | 62 |
| Agentic AI | 21% | 61 |
| Databricks | 21% | 59 |
| Kafka | 20% | 58 |
| Azure | 20% | 57 |
| Kubernetes | 19% | 53 |
| BigQuery | 18% | 50 |
| LLMs | 17% | 49 |
| Distributed Systems | 17% | 48 |
| Terraform | 14% | 40 |
| Docker | 13% | 36 |
| PostgreSQL | 13% | 36 |
| Java | 12% | 35 |
| Generative AI | 8% | 22 |
| Robotics | 7% | 21 |
| Scala | 7% | 20 |
| Tableau | 6% | 16 |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 5% | 14 |
| pandas | 5% | 14 |
| GPU | 4% | 12 |
| Multimodal | 4% | 11 |
| Power BI | 4% | 11 |
| Computer Vision | 4% | 10 |
| Go | 4% | 10 |
| MLOps | 4% | 10 |
| MongoDB | 4% | 10 |
| Foundation Models | 3% | 9 |
| C++ | 3% | 9 |
| TypeScript | 3% | 9 |
| RAG | 3% | 8 |
| Embeddings | 3% | 8 |
| PyTorch | 2% | 7 |
| NumPy | 2% | 7 |
| Deep Learning | 2% | 7 |
| React | 2% | 6 |
| Prompt Engineering | 2% | 6 |
| Time Series | 2% | 6 |
| Vector Databases | 2% | 5 |
| Redis | 2% | 5 |
| JavaScript | 2% | 5 |
| Rust | 2% | 5 |
| Elasticsearch | 1% | 4 |
| Node.js | 1% | 4 |
| Vertex AI | 1% | 3 |
| MLflow | 1% | 3 |
| Model Context Protocol | 1% | 3 |
| Reinforcement Learning | 1% | 3 |
| SageMaker | 1% | 3 |
| C# | 1% | 3 |
| TensorFlow | 1% | 3 |
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About this data
- What skills do Data Engineer roles need?
- Data Engineering is the most in-demand skill for Data Engineer roles, asked for in 89% of 285 live Data Engineer listings. The most-requested skills are Data Engineering, Python, SQL, Machine Learning, and Airflow.
- How is demand measured?
- We scan the title and description of every active Data Engineer listing for a curated vocabulary of skills, then rank each by the number of distinct live roles that mention it. Share is that count divided by all active Data Engineer roles.
- How current is it?
- It reflects live listings and updates as new roles are posted and old ones close.