Top skills for Data Engineer jobs
Based on 2,321 active Data Engineer postings · updated Oct 8, 2026.
Skills employers ask for
The share of Data Engineer postings that list each skill. Text that appears in almost every posting — equal-opportunity and benefits sections — is left out.
- Design78%
- Data Engineering75%
- Analytics65%
- Data Quality59%
- Business58%
- Computer Science46%
- Data Modeling41%
- Datasets41%
- Automation40%
- CI/CD35%
- DevOps28%
- Data Integration27%
- Big Data27%
- Use Cases26%
- Data Processing25%
- Version Control25%
- Metadata24%
- Data Science23%
- Scripting22%
- Data Analytics22%
- Finance21%
- Innovation20%
- Data Storage19%
- Scrum19%
- PySpark19%
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