Measured from live jobs
Data Engineer skills employers ask for
From 745 open Data Engineer job postings on Rolearch, read and tagged skill by skill. Updated every night as jobs open and close.
The most-asked skills
Share of Data Engineer postings that mention each skill.
- Pythondistinctive70%
- SQLdistinctive66%
- AWSdistinctive54%
- Sparkdistinctive36%
- CI/CDdistinctive35%
- Airflowdistinctive32%
- Databricksdistinctive30%
- Stakeholder management29%
- Azuredistinctive28%
- Snowflakedistinctive27%
- dbtdistinctive23%
- Leadership22%
- Communication22%
- Gitdistinctive22%
- Kafkadistinctive21%
“Distinctive” means Data Engineer postings ask for it at least three times as often as jobs overall.
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Where Data Engineer skills carry over
Roles whose postings ask for the most similar skills. Overlap counts the skills that define each role most.
- Database Administrator79% overlapShared: SQL, AWS, Databricks, AzureHow to switch
- Data Architect74% overlapShared: Databricks, Snowflake, SQL, AWSHow to switch
- Data Scientist64% overlapShared: Python, SQL, Databricks, dbtHow to switch
- Cloud Engineer62% overlapShared: AWS, Azure, Python, DatabricksHow to switch
Questions
- What skills does a Data Engineer need?
- In 745 current Data Engineer job postings, the skills asked for most often are Python (70%), SQL (66%), AWS (54%), Spark (36%), CI/CD (35%). Percentages are the share of postings that mention each skill.
- What jobs can a Data Engineer move into?
- Measured by shared skill demand, the closest roles are Database Administrator, Data Architect, Data Scientist, Cloud Engineer. Database Administrator shares skills such as SQL, AWS, Databricks.
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